AR goes to Africa

Just arrived to Tanzania to volunteer at Friends of Tanzania working with kids diagnosed with HIV. Miss you all already...but have Curious George and Winnie the Pooh to keep me company. What? I'm 31, what's your point?:)

Saturday, May 13, 2006






just eating some homemade popcorn and getting ready to watch a movie...leaving this home to go the home with the kids that are hiv+. won't really be able to internet as much, so hopefully you guys can live with out my anecdotes as frequently. feel fee to stay in touch on the celly.

sooooooooo, went out last nite for a nite out in dar. very euro have to say. bc it's been raining so much it is so ridiculously muddy that i feel like i'm already on safari. sad news about that is that it's like $100 a day! yikes! i may be looking into doing a little bit of traveling soon with some of the danish volunteers. yea for traveling!

anyways, funny quotes from yesterday include the tanzanian guy that wanted some of my gum and put in grrrrr in aggressive! hilarious! good thing i've been going to salsa clubs all my life and know how to handle ridiculous men. so the people i was with were the kids of this family and the girl is 16 and the guy is 25, but ok let's go, i'm in dar right. i'm young at heart, right? they're telling me to say i'm 18. ok, i'm 18. it was a lot of fun and met kids from all over the world.

went back to mburuhati today, where the kids are orphans bc their parents died of aids. we went in bus and again with the mud. it was so nasty in the "bus station" with the flip flops. i have not managed to be wearing the right shoes for one day i sware! the buses are from 1902. they make the buses in colombia look like mercedes i sware. anyways, we did the children's program and the kids taught me to sing this totally cute kiswahili song. i taught them america the beautiful. you know, 'cause i'm so patriotic!:) it was fun though. everything is just such an adventure. everyday life is just such an adventure and it's so amazing how slower paced everything needs to be here.

anyways, here's some pix of the latest and the greatest...

p.s.
pix of me coming soon, promise

p.s.
also became spanish teacher to the kids and may even become salsa teacher to rich ex-pat kids for more fabulous lifestyle!

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