2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/hornei/rss.xml Welcome to my Tanzanian Travel Blog! If you want to keep updated with the progress of my year's voluntary teaching work with the children of the Amani Children's Home, in Moshi, Tanzania, then read on! http://www.getjealous.com/hornei http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=294310&go=hornei Well how are you all? Sorry for my long absence! It has been quite a month! I have fallen somewhat behind with my diary of late so will try to bring you up-to-date over this week! The whole Amani staff spent the rest of the end of February recovering from the all-round massive effort put into mid-February's Grand Opening! The latest news unfortunately is that it will now be at least May before ... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=294310&go=hornei Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=267003&go=hornei It has been some time since I have last written a diary entry here! Hello to everyone again! My reasons for my silence will be revealed very shortly! My main news of the last couple of weeks is a suprise very short trip that I had to make back to England last week! Yes you read rightly back to England! I actually returned from England a week ago, after a very brief few days home that I was forc... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=267003&go=hornei Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=250273&go=hornei I thought that it was about time that I created a diary entry devoted solely to the subject of the wonderful flora and fauna here! It will take some doing to list all of the amazing things that I have come across since my arrival, but here are some of the entertaining highlights! Needlss to say everything is bigger, noisier and much wierder here, and that is just the insects! Let's start with t... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=250273&go=hornei Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=248721&go=hornei I can't really write about Christmas without a brief tale about New Year's Eve as well, which I am glad to say was marginally better than Christmas Day! I decided to spend New Year's Eve at Amani, with most of my friends away visiting their families and friends, I thought that it would be nice to see the children who were left at Amani over Christmas. I decided to go to Amani early and arriv... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=248721&go=hornei Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=241774&go=hornei Well it is December 28th now and Christmas is over and done with! I can't really say that it lived up to all of its expectations but I forget sometimes that this is Africa, and things often never work out exactly the way that you wish them to! I will explain further by saying that the background to this story is the appalling wages that people are paid here, in return for jobs with incredibly long... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=241774&go=hornei Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=233989&go=hornei It is now December 12th and there has been a noticeable change in the daily weather here in Moshi. The days are now very hot, sweltering even, and I am now taking every chance to seek out shade and wear my hat! There seems to be a very regular weather pattern now of a clear sky in the evening which is amazing to see, when I walk back down to my house having visited friends in town. You can see lit... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=233989&go=hornei Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=230553&go=hornei It is now Tuesday 5th December and I really cannot believe that we are just 3 weeks from Christmas Day! The weather has been somewhat interesting recently with extremely hot spells, and quite regular torrential downpours which have created the familiar mud problem! I think that my shoes will begin to rot if I wash them much more! The problem is that my daily walk to work is now through what you wo... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=230553&go=hornei Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=224681&go=hornei I wanted to write a seperate diary entry to tell you about a day I spent visiting the family and friends of a good friend of mine, in an interior village called Kingori near Arusha. It was one of those special days that I will never forget! I had been invited to visit the Lutheran Church and home of a close friend of mine and had to make an early start to meet her at 7.30pm along with her sist... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=224681&go=hornei Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=220104&go=hornei Hello again from Moshi! As my latest diary title would suggest it has been raining! I think we have entered one of the rainy seasons now (short) as it has rained most days now for the past 2 weeks or so! When I say rain, I mean RAIN! Some of the showers have been incredibly spectacular, very heavy with amazing cloud formations over kilimanjaro. Unfortunately rain here also brings with it mud. W... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=220104&go=hornei Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=210836&go=hornei My time here in Moshi is going very well and I continue to keep very busy with my life and work here in Tanzania. I have just had 3 days holiday due to the end of the Muslim Ramadan Festival and it was nice to take some time away from Amani to catch up on some rest and sleep! All that walking backwards to and from Amani each day has made me pretty tired somedays and it was good to go to sleep know... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=210836&go=hornei Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT