Snake park and Maasai village...also my project is being changed

Snake Park
Today I rode a camel, wore a snake, and held a baby crocodile. The baby crocodile peed a little in my hand because I squeezed his brains too hard when he tried to bite. I asked if I could pet the black mamba and only received shocked stares. (I was actually kidding...but they did let me hold a crocodile...)

Another band playing out of the back of a pickup truck just drove by the internet cafe.

My project
My project is improving. I am being moved to a new post where I will teach English to adults. I will work alongside 3 other teachers. They are desperately understaffed and teach 120 students total. They teach from 8 am to 8pm and I will initially work from 8 until 4. I am very excited about the new position. The other teachers openly told me that they really need a native English speaker to help them and that they want to work to find better methods of teaching. I am happy that I might finally be put to work. If I really decide that I like teaching English then I might consider teaching English in Thailand. That would be exciting because it pays. I am also still contemplating PeaceCorp....

I was feeling bad about leaving Prime, but then I heard that two other girls were posted there last time and they felt useless too and hated the headmaster who is truly a bastard. The headmaster insists that each teacher only get 2 pens and when one stops working they can trade it in for a new one. I suspect that this thrifty sentiment explains why he keeps saying that they need volunteers despite the fact that they are better staffed than most African schools. Apparently the other girls also complained that students were beaten frequently for no reason. I never saw this, but I was there in between normal sessions.

Arusha
Living in Arusha is more expensive than I thought because you can't walk anywhere by yourself in the dark so you have to always take cabs. It gets dark at 6. I am worried about money and that is never fun. Apparently, everyone else here who is traveling and volunteering has money coming out of their assholes.

I finally met some more people here by going to a club Thursday night. I met several UN volunteers as well as a guy who works for the UN full time. Perhaps that will help me get a better idea of what I can do in Arusha. We also got a new group of volunteers in the program. This makes me happy because they are a lot closer to my age and some of them are staying until I leave. So things are improving here and I am happy about that. Arusha is not the ideal place to be, but if I can actually get some good work done I will be pleased with the project. I really like Africa, I just don't really like Arusha as a city. It is full of crime and violence and in the city center people pester you constantly about safari's and buying things or dating them. Arusha is known for this more than anything. Fortunately, my new job takes me further from the city center where it looks more like what you would expect from Africa. I am quite fond of wandering goats and chickens.

The more I travel, the more I want to travel. Next I want to go to Thailand or Nepal. The variable will be getting money to go or getting paid to stay...