ENGLAND!

I'm flying to England today! It's super snowy and I think after over a year without leaving East Africa I am going to freeze my metaphorical balls off. I'm really excited to go but perhaps strangely, the thing I am most excited about is blending in. Walking around without being stared at. I really miss it. I'll stay for ten daysl. My parents are moving and I will sort through my stuff, see friends, go to London, and most importantly go to the supermarket and walk around and feel gloriously invisible.

We're back!

We're back home from the beach crab after a twelve hour coach journey. I will only home for 20 hours though: I'm flying to England! Here's some pictures from the beach crab.

On the beach...

 I'm taking a couple of days off from posting to enable some heavy-duty relaxation. See you soon!

Holiday!

We've finished school for a three week holiday before the third term. Woo hoo! Jouni and I are going down to the coast. We have a favourite place to stay there called 'The Beach Crab'.  Here's some photos from the last time we were there:

We hope to run into our friends Rob and Allison whilst we are down there. The only part I'm not looking forward to is the long, sweaty, and potentially deadly coach ride down to the coach. Say a little prayer for us!

We came back home from Dar

It was really great. We used the brand new airline, Fastjet, which has tickets for only 32,000 tsh. I'd recommend it to anyone. Mostly we swam and swam and swam. And ate and watched movies and swam some more. It was super hot and humid. You see that cake photo there? I always want to order cake when I go to Africafe, but then I eat too much other stuff and can't. So this time my strategy was to only order cake.

Happy New Year!

As you read this we are celebrating the new year in Dar Es Salaam, the big dirty city on the coast of Tanzania. The good thing is that we are not actually staying in the dirty city part, but the beach 7km away from it.

We're staying at the Best Western, which is the fanciest hotel we've stayed in whilst on a holiday here (we usually stay in dirty places for a few dollars a night, but this time we decided to splurge). The main reason for the splurge is that when we travel I usually get sick: I've had malaria, typhoid and dysentery. We figured it's pretty much impossible to get sick while staying in a best western.

We've got 5 nights here and then back to work. Jouni my husband has a new job working for the British council teaching English: I'm still teaching 5 year olds at an international school.