Today has been an incredible experience, once again!
We went to the local town (Moshi) which is approximately one hour away by Dala Dala.
The Dala Dala is a type of bus, but is about the size of a taxi minibus. We caught it from the local town (Marungu) and these vehicles are designed to hold about ten people......ours had 31 people, plus one young boy in the boot!
It is absolute maddness! I can't even explain what it is like. They just keep cramming people on and won't leave until they are at full capacity.
The plan when we got to Moshi was to go to the coffee shop to recover from the trip. This coffee shop was lovely and we sat in the garden and had coffee, milkshake and Samosas. Delicious!
We then went to do some souvenir shopping. This became quite stressful as a group of Musangus (foreigners) attracts an awful lot of attention for the locals, particularly when three of you are blonde!
We ended up with a crowd of about 20 locals following us desperately trying to sell us things or get money from us. It did become a bit much for everyone and so we stopped for lunch to get a break.
We next went on to the YMCA for a much-needed cool down in the Olympic size swimming pool. This was lovely and a good cool down after the heat of the midday Tanzanian sun.
After our swim we headed back to Chem Chem, collecting some freshly ground coffee en-route from the local coffee shop ready for breakfast.
Once we had returned, we were joined by Dilly who brought us some whisky that he and John Douglas from VEPK wanted to share with us. We had a toast to the Village Education Project Kilimanjaro and then went for another outstanding dinner of beef stew, rice, mash potatoes and spinach. Pole pole!
Tomorrow is our first day of project work and everyone is really looking forward to it, the learners have said they can't wait to get started.
It has been an absolute privilege spending time with these award-winning apprentices. They really do deserve to be here and are being fantastic representatives for Remit.
The rain has now started again after a glorious sunny day. Let's see if we get any more sleep tonight!
Have a great weekend all,missing you but realising how much we take for granted back home. Here there are seven-year-old children walking five miles a morning to get fresh water. Unbelievable, what a different world.
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