Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Mwanzo

Day 2 (or 3 if you count the entire day of travel) begins.

We all arrived safe and sound in Kilimanjaro late Monday, quickly passed through immigration, picked up all our luggage, and then our only road block was getting through customs, which also resolved after about 20 minutes of inspection & interrogation. Otherwise our travel, though lengthy and exhausting, was pretty hassle-free.

We went straight to our accommodations at Center House in Arusha, and went straight to bed. The evenings are quite cool which is very nice. In the morning we got our bearings around town, and bought a couple necessities for our stay. We went out to "Bamboo" Restaurant to enjoy our first "family meal" together.

Today, we'll meet with Dr. Mhando and arrange other meetings with our other stakeholders. We're all really excited and quite pleased with our first few days here. We'll post more with pictures soon! :)

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Greetings from Amsterdam!!


Hi MedOutreach Supporters,

Well, our adventure has begun!!! 7 of us (Kasia is en route from Poland) are sitting/sleeping in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam awaiting our next connection to Kilimanjaro. So far, our travels have been going smoothly, despite having to rearrange a few of our supply bags that were overweight in Toronto :p It feels surreal to be so close to the destination that we have been looking forward to reaching for months. Saying we are "excited" does not accurately describe the emotions we are feeling right now!! Thank you for your on-going support and we will update the blog once we arrive in Arusha.
Tutaonana!
Chalice

Monday, June 7, 2010

The MedOutreach 2010 team will be flying into Arusha, Tanzania on June 28th, 2010. Stay tuned for blog updates - we should have our firsts posts up within a few days of our arrival!