Tuesday, January 27, 2009

I've arrived!


Here I am in the beautiful village of Ntagatcha Tanzania. It took a few days to get here…three airplane rides and a couple of vans and trucks- but I arrived. It’s amazing here. You can see the green hills roll on for miles and miles and the blue sky seems to never end. Donkeys, cows, dogs and roosters are common background noise here and they roam around freely. At night it is pitch black - you can’t even see your hand. I don’t have electricity yet, but it’s coming. The children here are beautiful and so loving. As soon as you walk outside, they flock to you.
There are bugs of every kind here. Mosquitoes are everywhere, as well as moths, cockroaches, ants and flies. There are also bats in my ceiling and lizards walking around. I am so thankful for my mosquito net at night. It keeps the creatures out and away from me! Somehow though, I don’t really mind. I did however get about 50 flea bites when walking through the grass. My legs have huge red dots all over them. But hopefully they will heal up just fine.

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