sorry. couldn't get the picturees up. this computer won't even recognize my usb. oh well. i'll try in nairobi and if that doesn't work, i'll post them from the states.

hi guys! sorry its been so long. i'm in arusha now. we had a week on the coast snorkeling and taking classes. it was wonderful and beautiful. i had lots of fun and saw some really cool stuff. now we're camping on the property of the family who owns the safari company which is about 60 km outside arusha. this is my last internet access before we leave. so no more me for four weeks. i'm desperately trying to peice my life together at the last minute. i'm trying to regiter for classes and take care of flight plans all over the world. its hectic. tomorrow we have class and the next day we leave civilization. i'm finally gona get to use my binoculars and my ten time zoom. there's been a misfortunate event with my pictures from the first half of the trip bcause i lent them to my friend so she could put them on her blog and she accidentally deleted them off my mem card. i think there's still a copy of them on the computer she was using though and i'm going to get the girl who owns that computer to upload them as soon as she gets back to a place where she can get onto the internet with her computer. i'mg oing to try to get the other ones up though. we'll see. this isn't a very fast connection. you'll get them all eventually though. don't worry.

anyway, so we went to zanzibar and that was awesome. first we stayed with the muslim families in this tiny town in northern pemba called tumbe for three days. it was a crazy experience. they didn't speak hardly any english. my host family mom didn't speak a word and she would blab at me in swahili and i could hardly understand her because she was missing a lot of teeth and talking really fast. it was hilarious. but we got by. i ate some really yummy fish there. best i've ever had probably. no idea what it was though. zanzibar and pemba are huge exporters of spices, especially cloves, so i got some and hopefully i can smuggle them back to the US. then we met back in zanzibar town and hung out there and finished up our history and islam courses and then we had a week off. i've told you this part. most of the girls went to this little town called nungwi and a few days later just about everybody else showed up too. it was really touristy but beautiful. i made a friend named sele who is really awesome. we met him because he manages a hotel and restaurant and he offers this free cooking class. you pay for the food but its pretty cheap and you hel him make it. the food was amazing. we made curries and spiced rice. and he is the funniest guy. we just talked to him for hours. i have lots of stories from nungwi. but no time to tell them right now.

then we met up with the safari people and they threw us on a couple of dhows and brought us back to the mainland for the coastel biology thingy. they're really nice people. we got to stay right on the beach in these little bandas with no electricity and all that fun stuff. they feed us good food and the staff humor us when we try our swahili on them which is nice.

ok. now i'm going to try and put up some pictures.