Lala Salama!

Well hello everyone! I cannot believe only a week has passed, its been unbelieveably busy.
I met the other volunteers at the airport, before the rarther nasty task of saying goodbyue to my parents. Everyone is lovley, (sickeningly so, i just dont see how everyone can look so lovely in this heat!). The plane was horrile, i was sat between to complete strangers, couldnt sleep etc. Landed at nairobi and found our connection to Kilimanjiro international, intrieging airport i must say, but luckily no cockroaches unlike sri lanka.
After Landing we went to LL'oasis lodge outside Arusha. Very pleasent stay whilst we had our 3 day orientation course. This was scary. Everything appears to be dangerous, cause massive illness or even death. Many horror stories where passed our way to shock us into behaving sensibly, many of them based around Uganda. It seems a horrible place from the amount of AV accidents (though of course it isnt). We joked that in our free travling, we would go in, go water rafting THEN OUT! before any malaria/corc/snake/rapist/mugger/bo monster/lochness monster ate us alive.
We learned some basic kiswahili, which i promtply forgot. useful ones a shillin ugani (how many shillings?) asanti sana (thankyou very much) jambo, mambo, mombo poiur, shikano which are all greeting of various types. i was very excited to find out asati sana ment something becuase its what rafiki(meaning friend) sings in The lion King 'ASANTI SANA SQUASHED BANA' which me and rach have been singing all week.

We moved to our house on saturday, its very big (in comparison to others) and nice and cool. The toilet is a french camping site job, which dont flush, shower dosnt work and the cooking is intrieging. we seem to be constantly boiling water becuase we drink it so fast (much cheeper to boil than to buy)
We were greeted by the heads of Lambo (where victoria and victoria are teaching) and Kisololi and Nshara(where me and Rach are) to eat a awful stew of goat that gave us all nightmares. (still, better than thr tripe in the c\staffroom today that i declined to eat) then went for a tour around the schools. Lambo seems to have done comparitvely well for itself, Somerfeild prep (the one that goes into eton) sponosr some of their water tanks and things, and previous AVs have been very generous. I think they expect alot from the Victorias! kisololi and Nshara on the other hand has never had any AVs and i feel were definetly starting from stratch! (but more on that at a later date)

Today was our first day at school, Leaving proptly at 7.25 to get there at 7.45 (school starts at 8). We met both headmasters and sorted out our timetables, me and rach shall be teaching english to standard 5 in Kiololi, then in the next period in Nshara. and in the afternoons, sprot, to what we fear will be the both school, god knows what standards! After alot of lesson planning we went home at 3, to venture out to the town of moshi (where i sit writing this) which is about 30-40 mins away in a crazy taxi.
Nice amount of shopping done, got some good bits and peices (shampoo)

The worst thing to happen so far is that i reacted against my malarial pill (at least thats what i hope has happend!). Which means i havent been able to eat, been very nauseous, drained and had an very painful burning in my stomach. It has made everythibng alot tougher and ive been inexplicably homesick. Sunday i was just a complete emotional wreck, after throwing up the day before, and a week of no food i could hadly move from my bed, and couldnt even thingk of england without crying. However, im using rach's malarone for now, hoping that the synmptoms will stop (today i have felt better, less nasueous).

Im very sorry about all the mistakes, i have alimited time on here and not enough to go checking it! Teaching startes proper job tomrurrow, (very nervous).

My love goes to all of you, I hope it isnt to cold in england, your welcome to some of this heat!!!!

Love you all, miss you all(even romaticised the chavs the other night)
Roo

p.s, lala Salama means sleep well (lala meaning sleep, my favourite word so far!)