So we arrived in Arusha Tanzania on Tuesday January 17th at 9pm and are staying at Pete and Charlotte O'Neal's United African Alliance Community Center (who both left the U.S. in 1970 after Pete, who was a member and a leader of the Black Panthers Party, left the country after allegedly crossing the state border of Kansas with a rusty shot gun and was sentenced to 4 years in jail but instead fled to Africa and has been doing 42 years of great generosity and good to the Tanzanian people). We have had such welcoming and humble hosts and staff, including Bullet the horse and Jimbo the German Shepherd that likes to follow us everywhere we go. We have had a great first two days, filled with a long walk around the community center visiting the University of Arusha and farmers. We have visited downtown Arusha multiple times and we have also gone to visit the United Nations International Criminal Court where the prosecutions of the Rwanda genocide in 1994 took place. We got a tour of the courts and library and got a great visit with one of the head communications facilitator where we discussed the tragic and inhumane genocide and the other world wide genocides that have benefited from the International Criminal Court. We also got a great tour of St. Jude's high school, which is a very prestigious school and was developed for the purposes of educating under privileged youths who would normally not have had the opportunity of a higher education. The school is funded by two Ohio Wesleyan University graduates Gordon and Helen Smith, who are both on the Board of Trustees at OWU as well. We have also had the great pleasure of being able to interact with the 22 orphans that live at the O'Neal's community center. They are all very welcoming and just as excited as we are too meet them and interact with them as much as possible.

Overall it has been a great past two days and is only a taste of what lies ahead for this excited and enthusiastic group!