Day 1: Orientation

July 25th, 2012- Arusha Tanzania

After a long two days of traveling and a ride to the hotel, we are finally here! Louisa and I flew from Detroit to Amsterdam (7 hour flight), where we met the rest of the crew, and then we all traveled on to Kilimanjaro together (8 hour flight). The flights were good, although I (Rebecca) was not feeling to well on the second one. I was happy when the plane finally touched the ground, one because the flying part was over, but most importantly because we were in Tanzania!! Who would have guessed that I would have the opportunity to come to Africa again! So thankful and so excited to see what God has in store!

Quick trip run down!

We were met at the airport by the lovely Brenda Kimaro at the airport; she is our trip leader. Brenda works for Lutheran World Relief (LWR) and just moved to Tanzania about 2 months ago

Dave and Cheryl: They are our contact from LWR. They are in charge of the College Fellowship and will be helping us through out the next year. Louisa and I (Rebecca) were able to meet them back in February during the ALDE Conference. Dave and Cheryl along with Brenda will be leading our trip

Fellows: Rebecca Monnier and Louisa Mehl, Tori from Concordia Portland, Andrew form Valpraso University and Mai from Concordia Irvine.

We will also be accompanied by John Fulli who is the the program director here in Tanzania for the malaria work.

Over the next few days we will be traveling to different projects that the Lutheran Malaria Initiative (LMI) is working on. We will be taking pictures and video, meeting people, hearing stories, and sharing our love of Jesus!

Are first day consisted of, orientation, meeting John Fulli, a wonderful lunch, shopping, meeting Brenda’s family, and dinner at an Italian restaurant. A full but wonderful first day here in Tanzania. Tomorrow we will be traveling to our first project visits. Louisa and I will be in different groups, visiting different churches, so we will have much to share come tomorrow evening!

Love Rebecca