Moshi & Arusha

we've had a really nice and relaxing last few days in moshi. our friend there has a really nice apartment in town and we've gotten really spoiled with warm showers and really good (aka not instant) coffee for breakfast. we've also been eating eggs and cheese and real milk for the first time in weeks so its a big change from our usual ugali and tomato sauce diet. on sunday we went with jan to go for a walk in the foothills of kilimajaro. every second sunday all of the expats in and around moshi get together to go for these walks - one person organizes it by marking a trail (in a different place each week) and then people either run or walk the trail, usuallly lasts about 2 hours and in the end you meet back up for a beer and to watch the sun set. we were really lucky because we had incredible weather and really beautiful views of the sun setting over kilimanjaro. on monday sandy and i went back to mwanga to visit some people there and that was a lot of fun. tuesday we came up to arusha and met up with lawrence, one of our camp leaders. he spent the whole day with us showing us around the city so that was really cool. we were planning on going down to climb mt. hanang but then lawrence said that his friend is giving a concert tomorrow, traditional dance and music, so we decided to stay around here for that. during the day we will do a cultural tourism program where we visit some of the surrounding villages and take a walk to a waterfall nearby.