I'm using my supervisor's computer at the moment as mine is "being fixed" so this will be a very brief post. Arrived safely in Dar yesterday morning having regained my sense of adventure after a brief lapse while trying to sleep in London between flights. So far, I have been well taken care of. Musiba, my supervisor, met me at the airport and got me all settled in at my house. I have a room in a house shared with three others. Things have been going very smoothly except for a few moments of panic when I woke up from my nap in the middle of a blackout (it was already dark outside and no one was home) and had to use the light from my wrist watch to find my cell phone and the light from my cell phone to find my still-packed flashlight. Fortunately the lights came on within about 30 minutes. So far I have come across various lizards, a frog, a spider, a goat, a chicken, monkeys (just hanging out on campus) and, most annoying so far, two loud and mean looking dogs and many very tiny ant like bugs found everywhere but also, particularly notable, in my bed. the loud dogs live very close to my window. the little bugs don't seem to bite and I've now set up my treated mosquito net (because I've seen some of those too) and that should help with these little bugs too hopefully. Will write more once I have some time to myself on a computer. The internet connection here is slow but not too terrible so updating shouldn't be an issue (photos my be another matter however).
This is the lovely room I enjoyed at Heathrow's Novotel between flights. It was very nice BUT they were doing some renovations in the hallway so it wasn't easy to get much sleep :(
