SAFARI 23rd February to the 28th February 2012 Having been on 2 safaris before within 2 years, I still looked forward to this safari like a little kid waiting to go to the show. Lesley too as she hadn’t been on one and didn’t know really what
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22nd February 2012 Today to get the money from the bank to pay for the rest of our safari. We then wandered around Ukunda bargaining our little hearts out for this and that, but made sure we gave a fair price for the locals. Bought some lovely
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20th February 2012 Well what a big day today. George’s 2nd birthday and he received a bike from Kerry for his birthday. Lesley decided to have her hair braided today, so we walked to Aunty Rachel’s sister’s house. 3 hours later we headed up to the school
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18th and 19th February 2012 We had 2 nights in Diani Beach before heading back to the orphanage. We had arranged to go and see another orphanage “Upenda Children’s Home.” The African manager picked us up and took us there – we had to pay the fuel
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2nd February 2012 After our morning this morning we looked forward to doing our play at Stephen Kanja Primary School and more debates and poetry recitals. We didn’t have enough time to get back to the orphanage to get our props, so had to ring to the
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16th February to 18th February = Zanzibar Island – somewhere in the Indian Ocean Known as the slave capital of the world and spice island, Zanzibar has a long and chequered history, as well as the birthplace of the famous Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen. (something
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Wednesday 15th February 2012 My lovely niece Tamara’s birthday today. Amazingly I remembered!! Pretty proud of myself considering my memory! A couple of the volunteers wanted my website so gave it to them and they too will spread the word and were so interested in Umoja. We
Read more →Tuesday 14th February 2012 Well, it hit me it was Valentine’s Day when on a tour of the school this morning and I saw the date. Lesley and I did get a red paper heart each from one of the female teachers here at dinner when she
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Monday 13th February 2012 Our driver had organised to pick us up at 3am to drive to Tanzanian border. We had a wake up call at 2:30am. Set my alarm – just in case, but the call came. Didn’t get a good night’s sleep as heaps of
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Saturday 11th February and Sunday 12th February 2012 Hummer our driver picked us up at 8:30am and down to Diani we went. Unfortunately Patrick our other driver got called to do a safari so couldn’t take us to look at different plots of land that has been
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