I finally got confirmation that I can change my flights so now I can TRAVEL after the program :) A group of students have been planning a trip for awhile now and I never considered going because I knew how bad I missed home, but now that there is only 2 weeks left of my program and its being spent doing directed research I know I can’t leave here yet! It also helps that the people traveling are my BEST friends here and I don’t want to leave them since we’re all going to be split up around the country soon :( My plans are: get dropped off in Arusha, Tanzania with all of the rest of the students (they will be flying out to Nairobi - I had to cancel this flight and most likely lost all $250 wahh) and spend the night there. We will be taking an early morning bus to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (the buses are each only around $20-30) and spending the night there. We will then be taking a ferry to Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania, where we rented a house for the week on the beach. We will probably only be there 5 nights instead of the full week, but the house was cheap (only around $100 per person) so it doesn’t matter! We’re going to take a ferry to Tanga, Tanzania where there are famous haunted caves that go all the way to Mombasa. We’re probably going to spend a night there and then bus to Mombasa, Kenya and then to Nairobi, Kenya. We’ll spend a night or two in Nairobi depending on what day it is (our flight out to London is on the 19th). And then I’ll be flying from London to Newark and then finally to Chicago on the 20th! So excited that I will be traveling for a week and a half and the whole thing will most likely cost me under $500 :) However, since I do not have ANY appropriate clothes for the beach, me & Averil have been creative and been making our own clothes - cutting up t-shirts into tank tops and cutting jeans into shorts.. woop woop!
