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Sorry about Week 2, it is written down on a piece of paper that I do not have with me. This week all the groups were to begin teaching at schools that have already agreed to pre-arranged schedules. Keep in mind we have been notified many times about how hard scheduling is. Anyway, the school I am teaching at with my roommate was so confused when we showed up on monday because they insisted that we were not supposed to start until this upcomming monday so they pretty much told us: "See you next week." We taught in place of another group on Tuesday about the introduction to HIV. We also found a new school that opened up and scheduled teachings there for the rest of the program. We taught the new school on Wednesday and Thursday and the kids are funny, fairly knowledgeable about some things concerning HIV, but some are insistent that HIV was created in some lab. The first day we taught at the new school we told the teachers that we would be there at 9 a.m. and when we showed up they said, "no, you said 9 as in 3 p.m." They got mixed up between us speaking half in english and half in swahili because in swahili when you say the number nine when talking about time it means three. Long story short, everything here is difficult to arrange. My homestay has been going just fine. It is hard because we don't speak the same languages, but we have been doing the best we can. My roommate is fluent in both swahili and english, but it gets tiring using a translator everytime I want to say something. There has been a mouse living in our room for about a week and randomly throughout the night I jump up, get tangled in my mosquito net and scramble to find my flashlight because I think that it is crawling around by my face. We caught the mouse this week after I insisted that we try and my roommate, Christian insisted it was impossible. We caught it after less than two minutes and that is the happiest I have been almost the whole trip. I still think about mice when I sleep and had a dream about a mouse that night so it is going to take some time for me to recover. Next weekend some of the volunteers are going on a two-day safari, which I am very excited about. Currently, I am in Moshi for the weekend with a small group of the volunteers. This is another one of the gateway towns for travelers wanting to trek mt. kilimanjaro (Arusha is the other). The views of kilimanjaro are the clearest we have seen since coming to Africa. Today we took a trip to Marangu on some cheap buses expecting to see some amazing waterfall. As you can hopefully see by the picture I posted, the waterfall was only about 20ft. Starting Monday I will be teaching to two primary school classes each day from mon-thurs (ages 11-16), one secondary school class on both mon and tues (ages 15-17), and hopefully to a group of mothers on wed nights at my homestay house. Thank you all for your comments, it is nice to keep track of who is following along.