Russ's Adventures in Tanzania

Well, Lisa and I are back at site (for a week or so now). We had a great time in Morogoro helping with the new Education Training - the new teachers are all really great and will do good things here.

So at this point we are staying here until our Close of Service in late November. We are both still at work - Lisa is finishing up classes and preparing her students for final tests in a few weeks, and I am getting in as much teaching as I can before my students are off to Block Teaching Practice at other Secondary Schools.

On the weekends we are planning day trips to get out to the villages to see the Environmental volunteers one last time at their sites. Other than that, we are starting to go through our stuff and begin to sort out what little we are taking and what we are leaving behind.

Also high on the agenda is our travel plans after leaving here. Right now we're planning to hit Uganda (to visit a good friend), then Ethiopia, then Egypt all in three weeks before flying back to Hawaii for Christmas. We've booked some plane tickets already and have been excitedly reading travel guides for the above countries - it should be an amazing trip. We'll take lots of pictures!

It's hard to believe that we've been here more than 2 years at this point and only have 6 weeks to go. I'll admit these are a tough few weeks left - we both really are ready to head out. But, we'll keep busy and they'll fly right by before we know it.