2 months left!

Apologies for the lack of blogging. I fried baby laptop while trying to eat a bowl of cereal in Moshi. Here's a brief re-cap of recent events.

Safari:
4 days, and amazing. Saw everything, including part of the world-famous wildebeest migration in the Serengeti. Lots of zebras, giraffe, antelope, buffalo, a couple leopards, elephants (some a little too close), hyena... Then went to Ngorongoro Crater the last day. Saw lions (sleeping and boring), a lake full of flamingos. It was basically all of animal Africa shoved into that crater. AWESOME. Stayed in the car during the trip to a Masaai village. I have Masaai in my village, they are not that cool, plus its a total tourist trap.

From there went to visit another PCV in his village near Lushoto. Had a great time watching birds, walking through the mountains, an trying out his archery equipment. Then went to a little farm/hostel near the viewpoint in Lushoto to check out the view.

From there, on to Dar for my close of service conference where we talked about the process of leaving, adjusting to life back home, getting jobs, writing resumes. It was a good conference. The one disappointment was the farewell dinner, which was all Tanzanian food, instead of the kind of stuff we'd been having all week. We showed a slideshow of pictures and another PCV and I read the 50 “you know you're a PC Tanzania volunteer when...” that people had come up with.

Then back to the village. Work is kind of over now. I made some fuel-efficient stoves at the secondary school, but then someone tore them down. I collected a few books from BookCrossing for the school environment library, as well as donating all my training manuals. I'm making all the visits and things I put off all this time, taking pictures, planning my post-Peace Corps trip and life. Also, I just got Ayn's birthday package from last year. I wonder where it was hiding for 11 months?