I've seen Chimps, and Jane Goodall since I last posted. It's been a while, so I can also say I've taken a 43.5 hour train ride, met a publisher who I wrote a paper on for University before I came here, and I killed and skinned a goat!

Things have been going well with my new career path. I've stopped working as a teacher in the town of Mafinga, and am now volunteering as an Administrative Manager at an NGO in the village of Igoda. I now live with my fiancee, which is better then seeing her on the weekends as it was, and I commute back and forth from our village in Mdabulo to Igoda (7.5km) on a motorcycle. To get a better idea of our NGO you could check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkufSbWZYlc

My new volunteer position puts me in charge of the Orphanage, and the NGO projects basically, and it has been a lot of fun work is the way I'd put it I guess.

We went to Kigoma for my birthday and saw this guy up close and personal. It was quite an experience seeing wild chipanzees. We went to Gombe National Park, and on our hike we saw this family of chimps just hanging out with us for over 2 hours! The pictured guy you see here is named "Titan" and he is apparently the trouble-maker of the park. At one point he charged me, and picked up a rock to throw at us... The guides told us he was upset that we were taking pictures while he was trying to sleep. I guess that's pretty understandable.