Matt Christensen

A large portion of the day today, in fact most of it, was spent in the safari land rover travelling from last nights hostel to our campsite in Serengeti National Park.  It was a pleasant trip, full of many beautiful animals and stunning viewpoints.  One of the highlights of the day was getting to see…

Today was quite the adventure!  We safari-ed at Lake Manyara National Park again.  Almost immediately in the morning we saw 4 elephants alongside the road, clearly one of them was a matriarch because the other three were young.  Just underneath her, trying to hide from the sun (and from the sight of tourists like us)…

We woke early this morning to hit the road.  We are moving around so much!  I was really getting used to the dusty area, the wide-open rustic atmosphere of Engikaret.  It was comforting somehow, perhaps because of the slow lifestyle pace of the people there.  It seemed almost stress-free (although I’m sure it is stressful…

Tonight we danced with the Maasai. Underneath a clear night sky we walked to a Boma and marched inside, chanting with them.

Right now I am in Arusha about to set off on my 6-week safari.  I really enjoyed my time last week in Babati!  It’s colder up here than in Dar es Salaam, which I really have liked.  Our day began in Engikaret, a Maasai village, lying quite a ways away from Arusha.  After lunch we…

Luther’s Human Subjects Review Board approved me the other day to do my research project with the Maasai!  I also got my research proposal back from Molly, which is our biggest graded item in her class and she said that I did an excellent job on it from start to finish!  I am happy because…