Day 4

Day 4
Dar Es Salaam-Kigoma
The 3:45 wake up call came very early but we managed to get in gear & make it in time for the bus ride to the airport. Not much talking going on!! I'm happy to report that this time we took an actual airline to Kigoma...no crop dusters on this trip!! Yay!! We had 2 short flights to get to Kigoma & surprisingly enough I didn't sleep on either one. Once we got to Kigoma we were greeted by our guide for the week & got boxed lunches to eat on the bus. We had some kind of yummy chicken salad sandwich w/ fries. Sadly our last guide Bernard is not on this trip. We have Badi instead but Ramadan did return so it was fun to catch up with him on the way to our first distribution. (Update: He has a new baby boy who is 3 months old & has something wrong with his legs & will need an operation when he's a little older.)
The first distribution was at Neighbors Without Borders. The kids were on break again this year but about 45 came back to see us. The distribution went a little crazy & was just a tad bit unorganized but everyone had fun seeing the kids. It was nice to be able to walk around when we toured the school & not have to worry about taking pictures of everything since I had seen it all before. These kids were a little older & were so happy to get new shoes. After the distribution we all sat in a circle while the kids said thank you & then sang to us. This is the group that sang a song & called out our names to come dance in the circle which they did again. It was so fun and it just gives you a small sampling of how much joy they have! (Short video below.)

We decided to sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame to them which amazingly enough was not my suggestion! Ha! After that we took a little tour of the city & walked through one of the markets & then to the fish market which was something we didn't do last time. I got some pretty cool pics of the thousands of sardines laying out which looked very cool.

Then we went to the hotel to relax for a bit before dinner.
People asked why I wanted to come back to a place I had already been but the people are so wonderful & it's neat to recognize people from last time. It's also fun to watch this group experience this for the first time!
Oh and one last thing. The zebras are still here and the mothers had their babies!! I got a pic on up my iPad so hopefully I can upload it from here!