And so it is that my time at Tanzania is drawing to an early close. It has been tough decision to make that in many ways has presented itself since I've been back this year. I feel that the organisation and this experience here has a lot to offer Westerners who come here to volunteer. Experiencing Masai culture, learning about a different education system, learning the struggles and advantages of living in another community as well as opportunities to push yo...

The last two weeks have been extremely unexpected, fairly stressful and have involved a lot of medication! In my last blog I mentioned that I was feeling under the weather and unfortunately this did not pass but got much worse. I missed last Monday of school as I thought I had a tummy bug or had eaten something bad, Tuesday still feeling slightly like death warmed up I returned to school as I was worried about missing any more days. This it turns out was a big mi...

Would a dog be the same dog by any other name? It turns out yes it is, especially if you throw food into the equation. Our house has a foster dog that we call Freddie. Freddie for a large proportion of his day lives outside our house, greeting us in the morning, when we come home from school and sitting with us on the veranda. He is an old dog, has cataracts and has probably already lived most of his days. He is a very polite dog and is partial to bread, biscu...

So, to make life slightly easier for myself this week and due to it continuing to be busy I have decided to write one post that I can put up on both my blogs that I write- about being in Tanzania and about autism, it therefore made sense to combine the two of them for this week. While I have not mentioned it on my Tanzania blog before, on the whole I am fairly open about being autistic and see it as a positive thing (although it inevitably brings along many chall...

The last week has flown by incredibly fast. In fact it is now only four weeks until I come home for Christmas. Time here is definitely a strange thing- everything is either extremely fast or very slow with very little in between. I have long lists planned for the food I am I am looking forward to eat when I come back to Scotland, and am excited to use a washing machine, shower and be able to drink tea without having to boil water for five minutes first again (and...