Kalangala, Zanzibar - Island Chillin.

Last Thursday I said goodbye to all the amazing students and teachers of the two Kisugu schools. My time there was way too short, but I'm so thankful I made the connections I did. I managed to talk to them about potential pen pals type things between students from my grade 5 classes, and the grade 5's of Crescent. I told them I'd check with Crescent...so if anyone from Crescent is reading this: Is that cool? That sort of thing would be really valuable for the students on both sides of the world.

Friday morning we left with our friend Gerald (from the KiBO foundation) for Kalangala, which is a beautiful island on Lake Victoria. We took a ferry over the equator with some borrowed bikes, and camped out by a beach on the island. We had some sweet bike rides around the island through the think jungles and down some awesome hills. Uganda has the largest number of species of birds in the world (I believe...at least in Africa), and even Kampala has a lot of cool birds. But the wildlife on the island was beautiful and even more plentiful.

On Monday, we hopped on a flight over to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. We took a public bus, where we discovered that everyone in Tanzania speaks Swahili, and no one really knows any English. (Despite the presence of regional languages in Uganda - namely Lugandan in central areas - most people can understand English). After a crowded bus ride, we were dropped off at the fish market, where a man we met (who called himself "Starfish") directed us to the ferry docks. We got a ferry after some intense bargaining wars, and got ourselves over to Zanzibar. Zanzibar is one of the most unique places I've been this year! We've just had a day or so of exploring and taking many pictures of the old Zanzibar town, Stonetown. It is as though we have gone back in time. Very beautiful and very surreal.

We've got a week in Tanzania before we head back to Uganda, then catch our flight to South Africa for the last leg of our adventure. I'm pumped.