Thought for the day-
I do not think my feet will ever be clean again. They are still stained orange by the clay soil however hard I scrub. Maybe Vanish bar on my feet will work!
Since the last blog entry...
Went for a weekend in the Mountains. A lovely old mountain 'town' called Lushoto which used to be a German colonial town. Sounds nice... well it was EXCEPT for the fact that it turned out to be a cursed weeked for us. First of all...one of the guys got some rubbish news from home and so wasn't really happy all weekend...THEN.. one of the others got a serious bout of D+V (thank goodness I took my ciprofloxacin with us)...Amanda and Catherine got attacked by the Siafu (don't know how you spell it but biting ants!...not too seriously though!) and even though we went on a couple of nice long walks and the weekend finished off ok, it did start fairly horrifically!)
Then we had another week in the hospital, which I mostly spent in the Theatre. I spent friday morning in the lab though and did my first Gram stain (which excited me....I am such a geek) and had a look at Malaria slides etc.
This weekend its just Amanda and I...because the others have all gone and left the hospital.... so we have gone to Tanga. We had a bit of a splurge and are staying in the most expensive place in town but it has hot showers, air con, TV (FINALLY know what is going on in the world...thanks CNN!) and a swimming pool! Today we spent a long time waiting to change travellers cheques in the bank and then went to visit Amboni Caves via bicycle. It was nice to have a bit of exercise! There were a lot of bat droppings in the cave but they were good fun to look around, although perhaps not the most spectacular ones I've ever seen. Now we are going to go and relax by the pool til it gets dark!
Back to the hospital for a week on Monday but that will be our last week in Teule.... then off on Safari....soooo looking forward to seeing a Lion!!! RAHHHHHHHH!
Bye
Salx
I do not think my feet will ever be clean again. They are still stained orange by the clay soil however hard I scrub. Maybe Vanish bar on my feet will work!
Since the last blog entry...
Went for a weekend in the Mountains. A lovely old mountain 'town' called Lushoto which used to be a German colonial town. Sounds nice... well it was EXCEPT for the fact that it turned out to be a cursed weeked for us. First of all...one of the guys got some rubbish news from home and so wasn't really happy all weekend...THEN.. one of the others got a serious bout of D+V (thank goodness I took my ciprofloxacin with us)...Amanda and Catherine got attacked by the Siafu (don't know how you spell it but biting ants!...not too seriously though!) and even though we went on a couple of nice long walks and the weekend finished off ok, it did start fairly horrifically!)
Then we had another week in the hospital, which I mostly spent in the Theatre. I spent friday morning in the lab though and did my first Gram stain (which excited me....I am such a geek) and had a look at Malaria slides etc.
This weekend its just Amanda and I...because the others have all gone and left the hospital.... so we have gone to Tanga. We had a bit of a splurge and are staying in the most expensive place in town but it has hot showers, air con, TV (FINALLY know what is going on in the world...thanks CNN!) and a swimming pool! Today we spent a long time waiting to change travellers cheques in the bank and then went to visit Amboni Caves via bicycle. It was nice to have a bit of exercise! There were a lot of bat droppings in the cave but they were good fun to look around, although perhaps not the most spectacular ones I've ever seen. Now we are going to go and relax by the pool til it gets dark!
Back to the hospital for a week on Monday but that will be our last week in Teule.... then off on Safari....soooo looking forward to seeing a Lion!!! RAHHHHHHHH!
Bye
Salx
6 comments:
Well, you are only the second person to suggest that I've had an early mid life crisis. I just took my work friend on a trip to Sainsburys and the post office in it and he refused to get back in for the return journey and walked instead. (and not because I was driving fast)
We are mid-Loire or mud-Loire, it has rained all day and, foolishly we accepted a pitch without grass - plenty of shade but now it is flooded. We have dug a few channels to try to get the puddles out of the tent! Hopefully it will be sunny tomorrow to get packed up. Then we're off to the Bains and we might be tempted to sleep in the barn if it continues raining.
Please don't get too close to any wildlife, especially lions!
Enjoy your last few days at Muheza, hope your digestive systems are feeling better!
love mum and dad
Cousin J approves of the car, so it must be good!
Vegetable fat or lard might be good for removing stubborn stains from your feet. It can remove food colouring (just rub in, wipe off then wash with toilet soap).
Pity you didn't have a bat detector.
Thank you for your text this morning....can't believe that you have been away for 4 wks!
Sounds like it has been an eventful week but the expensive hotel sounds very luxurious! I guess you'll be meeting up with Jess soon and going on to your next hosptial.
Nothing eventful is going on here....Bry's getting ready to go to Dubai (did you hear shes going for 6months wuith work?) except doing exams this week....yawn!
Take care of yourself
Love xxx
Is this your safari time? Watch out for massive low flying daddy longlegs type things!
We have moved in. Have successfully fried an egg on cooker top as per instruction booklet. Unfortunately we had to clean it off with a brillo pad and fish slice, but it now looks nice and clean.
what?!
We have bats but no detector either. Sun has finally come out!
mum
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