After yesterday's post, today has been really uneventful. I cycled down to Maroz and was supremely pleased that the light rain that started did so when I was almost home so I was 98% dry rather than the opposite!
Maroz and I are having pretty uneventful visits these past couple of weeks, he has a skin problem on his back (similar to rain scald, but not caused because he's been kept wet or muddy), so we aren't riding him, only longeing, which gets tedious for us both. It looks like this will continue for another week or so before we find ourselves back out in the dunes and hopefully heading to the beach for a good gallop.
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Mike has arrived safe and sound in Tanzania last night, along with the three other chaperones and twenty students. They flew much of yesterday and landed in the evening at Kiliminjaro Airport. Today they will visit the town of Moshe and get an introduction to the community service site they will be working at. I will try to put in updates of what they are doing and any news I get here.
It's really amazing what technology allows us to do. Not only can I share my life with family and friends (and people I've never met!), but Mike can send me a text message from his phone after arriving in AFRICA and I get it immediately (at least I assume I do!). It makes he and the group seem not quite so far away somehow. Interestingly, I can't text to U.S. mobile phones for some reason, I haven't heard anyone who can from Europe. Yet Africa is no problem! That could be due to Mike and I both belonging to a Dutch network, but I'm pretty sure he's been getting texts from the local man in Tanzania who is his contact, so that doesn't necessarily make sense. Maybe it's a security thing, one more result from 9-11?
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I'm invited to dinner tonight in The Hague, it will be casual, so I will get an extra bike ride in today (the rain of earlier has cleared off...for now.).
Maroz and I are having pretty uneventful visits these past couple of weeks, he has a skin problem on his back (similar to rain scald, but not caused because he's been kept wet or muddy), so we aren't riding him, only longeing, which gets tedious for us both. It looks like this will continue for another week or so before we find ourselves back out in the dunes and hopefully heading to the beach for a good gallop.
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Mike has arrived safe and sound in Tanzania last night, along with the three other chaperones and twenty students. They flew much of yesterday and landed in the evening at Kiliminjaro Airport. Today they will visit the town of Moshe and get an introduction to the community service site they will be working at. I will try to put in updates of what they are doing and any news I get here.
It's really amazing what technology allows us to do. Not only can I share my life with family and friends (and people I've never met!), but Mike can send me a text message from his phone after arriving in AFRICA and I get it immediately (at least I assume I do!). It makes he and the group seem not quite so far away somehow. Interestingly, I can't text to U.S. mobile phones for some reason, I haven't heard anyone who can from Europe. Yet Africa is no problem! That could be due to Mike and I both belonging to a Dutch network, but I'm pretty sure he's been getting texts from the local man in Tanzania who is his contact, so that doesn't necessarily make sense. Maybe it's a security thing, one more result from 9-11?
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I'm invited to dinner tonight in The Hague, it will be casual, so I will get an extra bike ride in today (the rain of earlier has cleared off...for now.).
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