Week 16 at School

This is being posted late as the internet connection was down all Sunday.

This week was back to the mundane repetitive.  The excitement was that I got the whole weekend off, the first since arriving here.

Friday night we went out for another farewell and got home at midnight with Denise a little worse for wear.  Saturday we slept in until 10am, and then did it all again Saturday night without too many drinks this time.

Sunday morning I joined a walking group hiking to the Maasai Plains / Crater.  It was rated as difficult, but if it was difficult, I hope they have at least 1 or 2 more ratings.  Some of the people struggled as it was a long downhill (40 mins) followed by a long uphill (1hr).  The problems was the lead person was going to zigzag up the hill so I said I'm going straight.  Unfortunately, everybody followed me.  I had a little chuckle to myself and just kept going.  The beauty of not being the leader.

For those reading the online blog, there is more if you click on the Read more>> button below.

Work wise, I am starting to implement some new processes and procedures that will make everything run much smoother.

I did have one of those light bulb moments this week when I realised I have less than 9 months to go and I will not get everything done that I want to do.

Question to you all - can we stay longer than 1 year?  Let's see the response to that one.

I would have posted a photo of today's hike, but I have lent my phone to one Denise's "daughters" who had her phone stolen tonight.

Realisations

I still can't slow down to Tanzanian time - I don't have the time or patience for that....

This last week in particular we have realised how far away we are and how much we miss our family and all our friends - more than we ever thought we would.  Having the internet hides the fact we are sooooo far away.

Yippeee, the internet is back.

The big news, we have a new baby.  We sponsored/fostered Ajabu a baby elephant.  To see and read about her go to http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/fostering.asp#orphans

In the SELECT AN ORPHAN part choose AJABU

Until next time.