Safari
It’s been a while since I’ve updated!
My dad arrived on the 25th. He’s been working nonstop on fixing computers (and determining that most of them don’t work) and figuring out how the school can have an internet connection in the future. He came up with a great idea but it’s going to need approval, funding, and someone who can eventually install it. It’ll happen slowly, but it’ll happen.
We went on a three day safari starting on the 29th. We joined a Swedish-speaking Finnish father-daughter pair (what a coincidence) and went to Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro crater, and Tarengere National Park. I can’t even describe how amazing it was to see animals that I’ve been reading about and seeing in zoos and had toys of as a child in the wild, in real Africa. My childhood dream come true was to see cheetahs in the wild. (As my family knows, I was obsessed with cheetahs.) We also saw lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, antelopes, a rhino, hippos, hyenas, warthogs, and so much more. If you ever get a chance to go on a safari, you must. Another great thing about our safari was I could finally take a shower, and a hot one at that. I washed my hair every one of those three days.
We got a lot of book burning done yesterday morning, and burned five whole boxes. I’m sorry if any one doesn’t think that books should be incinerated, but it’s quite honestly all we can do with them. They’re inappropriate (snowmobiles), dated (Soviet Union), and falling apart.
Tonight we’re eating out at the Snake Park!
Tags: Tanzania, Travel
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