Just a quickie! Yesterday, we received an email from Rachel, indicating that she'd gotten in to Florence on Saturday, and was getting ready to move on to the town where her ceramics course will take place, starting Sunday.
Hey guys, just wanted you to know i made it safe and sound to Florence, here. Staying in cute little place right on the Arno (which smells and is kind of gross!). Great looking town but i am zonked and head to certaldo tomorrow noonish so will have to try to see the sights after the pottery. Hope your long travel days went ok. i miss you already. so much fun! will write more when i can...This morning, we got an email from Dylan about his arrival and first impressions in Tanzania...
Hello!, Supai! Keya Toi! I am in Tanzania, at an internet cafe in Arusha currently, getting these emails out of the way so I can go to the market and pick up a few supplies I might need for the upcoming months... I made it here no sweat..well, there was perspiration involved, but it went mostly smooth, I spent 10 or so hours on various buses traversing the cities and countryside before I finally found the airport, but I found it...classic bus scenes, too, 50 people on a bus made for 30 and me with my luggage, only white dude for miles... very fun...I met my group and began my masaii language lessons this morning...everyone is cool and it seems we'll have a good time...its going to be a stretch though, no frills down here...I get 10 liters of water a week, period, do do with what I want, bathe, wash clothes, etc...so that means no showers or anything, now power, running water, or anything starting thursday... this is truly an african country as you might imagine, women in flowing robes balancing huge baskets on their heads, incerdibly chaotic city scenes with cars, carts, cows, and people going in all directions...its wild... the weather is near perfect and quite a nice change...I have a maasai warrior friend who I have been chatting with the whole time, he personally has encountered and killed 2 lions in self defense with only a shield and spear... he drinks blood and speaks english so we're cool... the work is going to be cool, we get science lessons tomorrow as well, going to be an experience... probably wont write for a month but I may get a cell chip if I can find one...they do work here... the maasai have robes, jewelry, shoes made from tires, and cell phone necklaces, pretty cool... I am out, just wanted to let you know I made it safe... talk soon -Obviously, we're so glad to have the news, even though it boggles the mind, a bit, since we were so recently all together, and I'm still unpacking (well, I am a slow unpacker).
More, later...
--Sandy
