"In the fight between you and the world, back the world." Frank Zappa

I write this from the (dis)comfort of my hotel room.

Yes, the world has conspired to scupper my best laid plans and I am yet to make it to my new home. I am told that a taxi will be here to pick me up in one hour but, I am not holding my breath.... I have no idea where my new family live or who they are but, I do know they are somewhere just outside the city/town of Arusha.

The aid projects in Ngaramtoni have really started moving along now and despite the very slow pace of things out here I believe (don't quote me on this!) that all the businesses I am trying to start will be up and running by the end of this week.

I am told the rainy season is ending now and that the temperature will start to rise drastically in June. It is already warm enough here, as far as I am concerned, and I don't think I have encountered any buildings, bar the 4 top hotels here, that have air-conditioning so I am not looking forward to the sweat-inducing season just around the corner. The locals are wearing jumpers and coats at the moment with the average temperature being at least 26 degrees which for them is cold. I can tell you with great authority that deodorant is not something Tanzanians use a great deal which I know will make the already cramped and smelly bus journeys, I have to take no more cramped but, a lot more odorous once it starts really hotting up here. Joy.

Baring no relevance at all to today's post I leave you with a picture of a couple of new friends and the view from my hotel;

P.s. Did I mention I have found a golf course!