I leave in less than 48 hours!
Currently I am sitting in a disheveled room with laundry to wash, things to buy, and 4 months worth of things to stuff into a small (ok I guess it is pretty large) backpack. I leave for Tanzania in less than TWO DAYS. I’ve created this blog to keep contact with you all (friends and family), and to assure you that not matter what people have warned you about Africa, I have not (yet) been A) mamed by a lion, B) contracted malaria, or C) run off with a local villager (surprisingly some people have warned me about this).
I’ll be in Tanzania for almost 4 months, studying “Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.” I’ll have pretty limited access to the internet, but I will try to write as often as possible and offer entertaining anecdotes, which I’m sure I will have PLENTY of (I tend to attract very odd behaving people). I just googled “swahili” because I wanted to learn how to say goodbye so that I could have a super cute sign-off signature each time and the first thing it pulled up was Tafadhali nataka bia barid. This means “I’d like a cold beer.” I like Tanzania already.
Kwaheri rafiki!
PS- Contrary to popular belief, rafiki does not in fact mean monkey, as one would naturally assume given the lovely character of the same name in the Lion King, it means “friend.” And kwaheri means goodbye.
Also, I CAN’T WAIT TO SAY HAKUNA MATATA.
