1st Impressions

I'm in Tanzania, and wow. It's great! The weather, heat, wildlife, people, way of life - just about everything!

It's weird to think that we only landed in Kilimanjaro at 21:00 (+0300 GMT). After delays and the plane nearly crashing we got here OK. Albeit with my guitar not getting off the plane and carrying on to Dar es Salaam. But not to worry, I'll get it tomorrow morning (as promised by someone who didn't know what a guitar was...)

After a long night of packing, travelling to the airport and getting on the plane I was exhausted so I managed to get an hour before getting to Amsterdam, although we were delayed big time and so it meant we landed over an hour too late for our plane to Kili. Yes, I was worried. But we sprinted to the gate, to find it had been changed, so ran about 1km across the airport to the new gate to find that flight was delayed too. I think we were all a little bit pumped from the near crash our MAN-AMS flight had due to the wind. I guess it could have ben worse.

We got to Arusha at approx midnight, met everyone (they all seem cool, phew) I've had my first lessons of Maa (the Maasai language) and now we are exploring the town. Apparently we go to the village (Eluai) on Wednesday. Then our work begins.

Hopefully I'll let you know more soon as I only have 2:14 mins left on this PC and boy is it slow.

For those worriers of you, I got here safely, with most of my stuff, and I love every bit of life here.

Ciao for now...