Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Visitors!


We recently had our first visitors, Isaac and Vanessa, from Providence and Boston! They were only here for about 48 hours, but we got a ton of stuff done. We took the 5 hour hike to Gombe Stream National Park (a thunderstorm caught up with us and passed us by, explaining the degree of wetness in the picture. we aren't in that bad of shape.), swam/soaked in lake Tanganyika while watching the sun set over the Congo mountains, we took the 3 hour "locals" boat back to kigoma, we saw the Stanley Livingstone monument/museum (where "Dr. Livingstone, i presume" happened), we toured GOSESO and one of our nursery projects at a primary school, i got a little food poisoning, Vanessa got a little freaked out with all the talk of malaria/snakes/water contamination, Isaac may have lost the greatest flashlight ever (The Eyeblaster), and Matt was the rock of stability. All said, they were absolute troopers, we had a blast sharing our strange little world with them for a few days. I had a bunch more pictures to post, but i forgot to put them on my flash drive, so one is all you get. (Also featured in the picture is Luca, our main guide/translator/electrician/jack-of-all-trades, and Ashahadu, the tree-master and manager of our community outreach.)

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