So Little To Do and So Much Time, Scratch That, Reverse It

So the last month went by fast but also there was much that I had to do, there was a large amount of napping and lounging in the hammock going on during that month. But that all soon changed. Last Saturday I went to a hot spring with some fellow volunteers. The place was beautiful and made me wish my camera was still working, but I'm sure I'll get some awesome photos from the other volunteers off of facebook. The hot springs weren't exactly hot, defiantly nothing like the hot springs I went to with my family when we were in Banff. The water went from average temperature to luke warm, the thermal vents kept the water from being cold and you knew they were there went you would feel a slight current of warm water brush by you. The hot spring was in the middle of the desert and it was an absolute oasis, there were trees with roots that looked like mangroves and the branches grew over the water so we climbed them to jump into the water. After going for a fun swim and eating lunch we went on a trek to find some monkeys which to my great disapointment had no results. When we returned to the hot spring there was a group of wazungu (white people) who had just biked in, a large amount of them being children. We later found out that they were all native Tanzanians and that they were children of volunteers who had come to Tanzania and then decided to stay. It threw me off a little to meet a white person in Tanzania who was fluent in Swahili, but I also thought about how they must have to explain themselves a lot when people mistaken them for tourists or volunteers.
So when we got back from the hot springs we were soon joined by a new batch of volunteers. They're all pretty young and so far they all seem fun, though slightly lacking in any defining personality, but that could just be because they just got here. With the new volunteers came a new person to come to juvy with me. A volunteer from the previous group, named Scott, had joined me about a week ago, but today was the first day for the new volunteer, Nicole, at juvy. She's from Washington and is decked out in tattoos so we get along well.
And with the new volunteers came the rains! Today it finally started to really rain, luckily right around the time we brought everyone in to sing, dance, and play games. We played Duck, Duck, Goose for quite a while, the kids really loved it, but here they call it Bati, Bati, Kuku. The rains mean that everyone can finally start planting their crops and it feels like a lot of tension has been washed away by the rains.
Also, thanks to the new volunteers there's now more than enough people who want to go bow hunting with the Bushmen, something which I've been trying to do since soon after I arrived here. On top of that we're making plans to go on a day trip one of these weekends to a waterfall where you can jump from the top into the pool below. The plan is this up coming weekend will be the Bushmen hunt and then the following weekend will be the waterfall trip. It feels like this last month in Tanzania is really going to fly by, as well as be action packed. Stay tuned!