Holiday

This weekend Raymond and I along with Nick, the computer teacher here, took a trip to Moshie. Moshie is a town about an hour and a half from here, situated directly at the base of Kilimanjaro. It was a lot of fun. We left Arusha yesterday and then spent the night at the leopard hotel in Moshie. We had an incredible pizza dinner at the hotel, I had the Kilimanjaro pizza. It was a two sided pizza shaped like Mount Kilimanjaro, it was snow capped, using tomato sauce. We did some walking around town and a little souvenir shopping today, and then left Moshie at two o'clock. It was nice to have a short break from the routine of the base, and to see a new part of Tanzania. It is starting to get warmer here it was around twenty five degrees today in Moshie. I guess that is a little warmer than for most of you guys reading this blog. It is very weird to think that it is coming up on Christmas and it is still so warm. I don't know how the southren hemisphere does Christmas in summer, it just doesn't work. This will be our last week of class, then we leave for outreach on Monday. I will then be out of contact until January 14th. For outreach I will be going to Tanga on the coast of central Tanzania. I am in a group of twenty people, but Raymond and Karl will be going to Karatu, so I will be a little lonely...oh well. I hope the Christmas season has started well for everyone, and you are all starting to enjoy some pretty good food.