SNOW!

Day 41 (10/15)
We woke up this morning and found out that while it was raining here, it was snowing on Kili. It was amazing, most of the steep parts of the mountains (and all the deep gullies) were completely covered with snow. And you could see the peak behind the highest peak really clearly, and the smaller peak to the left (which looks mostly like rock) was also completely covered with snow.
It sort of gave the illusion of the mountain being closer than before, the sun was shining on it and it lit up the peak, which totally showed a completely different side of the mountain...it looked just like it does in the pictures.

During class, a baboon stole a watermelon and ate it by the fire pit. Its amazing how that will never get old. Even the professors are intrigued when baboons steal food.

Daniel (our Swahili teacher/resisdent gypsy/local guru) brought his kids to the compound for a couple days. One is 10 and one is 5, they are SO adorable, and amazing at soccer, already. They usually at are boarding school but for some reason have a break, so they will be here with us for a couple days.

After dinner we played a game where everyone has a piece of paper taped to their backs and people go around to write nice things to them, but in the end they don’t know who wrote it. And we got snickerdoodle cookies for being nice to each other. I was excited.