So this will be the last blog entry I write from Arusha. Tomorrow is my last day at my beloved MeruView and I'm back on the bus up to Dar Es Salaam early Thursday. I have no idea where the time has gone and I'll be very sad to leave - this really has turned out to be the best 2 months of my life. So a couple of weekends ago I went with my friend Anika from the hostel and some of her friends to a Maasai Village called Longido. It was an amazing and pretty insane ...

Mainly the weekends are when we do different things as everyones busy in the week (the hostels become a bit of an arts and crafts centre with everyone preparing lessons for the next day). We went to an Oasis a couple of weekends ago which really was like a little bit of paradise. It was a bit of a drive along bumpy roads (at one point the car we were in literally swam through a flooded part of the road we were seriously impressed). But when we got there it was br...

Mainly the weekends are when we do different things as everyones busy in the week (the hostels become a bit of an arts and crafts centre with everyone preparing lessons for the next day). We went to an Oasis a couple of weekends ago which really was like a little bit of paradise. It was a bit of a drive along bumpy roads (at one point the car we were in literally swam through a flooded part of the road we were seriously impressed). But when we got there it was br...

On Thursday night a group of us from the hostel went out (kinda like at home Thursday night here is also a going out night). I went to a bar first with some people, where I met a very friendly local who spent the next hour telling me how she was going to show me all around Tanzania (I think she was quite drunk) and then me and Immy moved on to Veea Veea (no idea how to spell it) which is a Tanzanian club. Not really like clubs at home at all - it was outside and ...