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This summer, I am going to Tanzania for a month. I will be working with an NGO called UKUN that supports people with HIV and AIDS. After volunteering for 3 weeks, I'd like to head up north to do some travelling for a week. I hope to visit Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire National Park and Lake Manyara. I hope to come home with stories and pictures, but in the meantime, here is a blog where I will post small updates on my endeavors. It's time for Africa!

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

The countdown to an adventure


The time has finally come! After a long year at school, fun times with friends in Ottawa, some very successful fundraisers and moving into a new apartment, I am back in Guelph with my passport in hand. I leave for Tanzania in 3 days! My room is covered with things that need to be packed, and my desk has been bombarded with books on Tanzania, Swahili and the list of medications I'll have to take. So exciting! I have met everyone I will be living with in the home and they all seem so great. The majority (about 95%) of them are in the US Army, and then there is one girl from Australia and me, the lone Canadian. Maybe they'll be able to get me out of bed in the morning and workout. Now that would be a new experience!

Now many of my preparation hours have been at my computer learning Swahili on Rosetta Stone. Now THAT is a complicated language. And I thought french was bad enough. To make objects plural, they add a "w" at the beginning of the word! It's a tongue twister and a half. However I've managed to remember a few words that should get me through my day.

Back to packing for me.
Hakuna matata (that's Swahili!)
Erica
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