Merangu
Today CCS took the new group (that's me!) to Merangu. It's an area about an hour away. We went to the market there, which was crazy! It was for the locals, not tourists (we've also been to a tourist market). There were lots of bananas. After that we went to a cave. It was dug by hand and it goes all the way to Mombasa, Kenya...400km away!. It was used to avoid raids by both the maasai and the europeans. We went into a traditional Chagga house and we walked to a waterfall (it took about 20 minutes and it was not nearly as dangerous as the first waterfall hike at kili lodge). The scenery here is amazing. Everything is just so green and vivid. It's so dense, I feel like I'm in the jungle (but I'm in a forest area, not a jungle). It's not too hot, there are times in the day when we get really hot and times that we have to put on sweaters, so it is a nice balance. I found out today that Moshi Town (we call it Motown) is at 2000 feet elevation from sea level. The air is definitly harder to breathe, especially because of the fumes from all the 20 year old buses that used to be in Japan. Mostly here it smells like farm animals...cows, pigs and goats are the most common. Today we went to see a 500 year old baobab tree, and behind it was a forest and we saw monkeys!! I was so excited, I tried to take pictures but it was too far away, but they were adorable. Tomorrow after placement everyone from my group is going to Zanzibar, except for me and one other girl. We are going to do a day trip on Saturday though. It should be fun. We are getting 16 new volunteers this weekend, so the house will just be crazy. The food here is really good. At lunch and dinner we always have a cumcumber, tomato, avacado and lettuce salad with a light dressing on it. We have rice, beans, spinach, and ugali (white paste) at nearly every meal and then we also have bananas and mangos. There is always some sort of main dish, which varies from hamburgers to banana soup. I'm still working on the pictures, hopefully I will get them to work soon. I miss you all! Love Maggie
posted by Maggie @ 9:36 AM
6 Comments:
Maggie, you sound like you're having a great time. I'm so glad. Your postings are great. what other animals have you seen? Food's good and it sounds healthy.
Love and miss you. Aunt Pat
sounds like fun! More people should be interesting haha. you probably won't want to come back when august rolls around haha.
-megan c
Megan bite your tongue. She has family here. -- Maggie's Mom
Hey Maggie!! I just discovered this blog and I'm very excited. Africa sounds sooo amazing! You are too cool. I hope you are happy happy happy. We miss you a lot, and I can't wait to see pictures! Love you,
Liz D.
banana soup ? ...
frank
Hi Maggie,
It seems strange to plan a cottage week end without your smiling presence. We miss you!
Your current life situation is so different right now, that you may have forgotten that this is Memorial weekend. We will bounce you a hug off of a moon beam.
Lots of love from all,
Uncle Al and Aunt Daisy
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