Welcome to Tanzania!

It's been two weeks that we are here in Tanzania, and I write this as Tiffany and I sit down on a balcony at our house, watching the chickens run loose around the luscious green yard, and enjoying the beautiful view of far reaching hills ending in Mount Maru that soars at over 15,000 feet. It is a breathtaking view, and a place that has become one of our favorites to sit and talk, read, or continue the Spanish lessons. The time getting to this point has been filled with experiences that were both challenging, in terms of adapting to such a different lifestyle and culture than those that we have seen before, and also exciting, as we've already taught at two schools, visited the local town of Arusha and took trips to the towns of Moshi and Marangu (which sit at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro) to hike to beautiful waterfalls, and even spent the day witnessing the UN's criminal trial for the genocides in Rwanda during the 90's. Read on for more on our arrival and first few weeks in Tanzania...