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Another blog is about to be written from Africa, so please make yourself comfortable, and I will try my best to make this as interesting as possible :)

The week after our return from Kidia has flown by!Kidia already feels like an age ago!Very scary. We havn't actually done a lot in the last week that was very different from the first 5 weeks, although we have finished the roof on the dining hall and have almost completed plastering the outside. At the start we were told and, in all honesty, that where we are now would be the end of the trip, but the group has done brilliantly and we are well ahead of schedule :D

We did journey to an incredible market called Mimoria (My-moria) :D We were very excited as it sounds like Moria from Lord of the Rings : ) or that might have just been me, but it was great fun! We bartered and haggled for a whole day buying random stuff, and helping each other buy things for our fancy dress party that was last nite : ) The party itself had characters from a whole range of categories, such as Jimmy Saville, 2 Pimps, La Roux (is that how you spell it?), a Pineapple, Pirates, a Rasta Priest, and Cavemen and women. I myself went as Jesus. Our main fear was that out of all of the guys who was going to get beaten up first when we went out :D We first had to parade ourselves on a catwalk infront of 3 judges, and be daring, original, and brilliant. The daring was slightly over done when Matt, our resident pirate for the night got naked on the table! Hahaha! Was very funny! After this we journeyed to a local bar, where we met Sound Driver, a band from England, who had just returned from Kilimanjaro, after breaking the world record for playing at the highest altitude in the world. They played on top of Kili for 20 mins!! In the aid of a charity for children with cleft-lips,  and they said that it was the fact that they had a reason to climb, that kept them going after the first 3 days. Well done to them. You can view the gig on www.chasingrainbowstour.com

Today started off a very somber occasion as the 2 monthers ,who we had arrived with, departed for Zanzibar and then home. It was very emotional thinking of how close we had all become in the last 2 months, and thinking about that final goodbye to people from Tanzania on the 2nd of April made it a very sad morning. They have left a huge hole in camp. Jordan, Suz, Liz, Maria and Rachel will be missed and seen again very soon in England.

News to come, me and 3 other guys from camp are running at 26 mile marathon on Sunday, called the Kilimanjaro Adventure Marathon. People think we are bonkers, but we are going to do our best even if we keel over, which in all fairness we probably will in the heat. Wish us luck.

Until next week, missing you all and much love

Josh