Dar es Salaam

Our next part of our check list was to go to Dar es Salaam where we were to start classes at the university and to stay with our awaiting host families. We got to Dar after a long and hot bus ride from Arusha late in the night on February 15th. We could all feel each others excitement for our next adventures that awaited us in Dar. Our first day in the city we got to visit one of the cities beautiful white sanded beaches with crisp aqua blue water. The water was so warm it almost felt like bath water. I think it was a nice change of pace and a sense of relief for us all seeing the Indian Ocean and taking in the salt water breeze. It was a wonderful welcoming to Dar for us all.

On Friday we had our orientation into the university and got to have a sense of what classes would be like. We officially started class on Monday the 20th of February, where it was such an odd feeling for us all to have gone from a busy month of traveling to Dar where we were settled in one place and began classes again. It was a shock to us all. We each are taking four classes five days a week and have our internships twice a week. Although our orientations are not exactly what we had imagined them to be, will be a good experience for us all to understand the true meaning of working in East Africa.

The six of us are split into two's at three different home stays, just thirty minutes from the university. Our experiences at our home stays have been different from one house to the next, due to some having siblings and some having house help, but we are all enjoying our home's very much and have felt very welcomed into our houses.