Here in Tanzania, there are a ton of different animals. You have
the traditional farm animals, and then you have the exotic ones. Every day you
step out the door, you are guaranteed to see a myriad of stray dogs, about a
billion chickens, and even a bunch of cows, goats, or sheep being herded down
the road. But we have seen a couple of really cool things here too! When you discount
the Safari (since the very point of a Safari is to see exotic animals), we have
still seen a couple awesome different animals. We found a couple
chameleons on a hike, were visited by a hedgehog at our house one night, witnessed a monkey running across the road, spotted a giraffe out the bus
window, and lived among an array of lizards.
The annoying animals that we live with include some neighborhood
roosters that are obviously blind, because they simply cannot tell when the sun
is rising. They cock-a-doodle-doo all day and all night long, completely
without regard to their sleeping neighbors, and are seemingly in competition to
see who can roost the loudest and longest. A sound which volunteer Kelsi
Gunderson dubbed “scream roosting.”
Fortunately, it is winter here. So the bugs aren’t all that
bad..... okay, sure, we go to bed with the occasional mosquito bite, and sure
Bailey just killed an enormous spider in the girl’s bathroom last night. And,
okay fine, one girl did get malaria, but the bugs really aren’t that bad! (Or
are they?) At least we don’t see them often. We are just pretty sure they party
in our house at night, after everyone is asleep.
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