How to become a morning person.

In order to become a morning person, all you have to do is travel to Africa, get used to the time difference and then travel home and don't get used to your old time. Today I woke up at 3:45 am! and it felt like noon. Craziness. So I laid in bed til 5, then got up and went for a run/walk and then made an omelet, and here I am at 7 am, posting my final blog entry for my African adventure before I head to babysit in a half hour.
The last few days in Tanzania were great. At UKUN we did some home visits and also finished painting the rest of the outside of the building. It ended up looking really great! I also did a bunch of data entry. They are now caught up to April 2009. Only 14+ more months of patients to enter into the system!
I also spent a bit more time at the Baobab Home with the kids. Just hanging around the house with them and stuff. It feels more like a family than an orphanage there and I really like the atmosphere.
Thursday night we went to Traveler's Lodge for my going away dinner (as well as Doug and John's). Once again I got carbonara and once again it was delicious.
Friday night we went to Baga Point with everyone in my start group who was left and everyone from the start dates before us. All of the new volunteers went to Zanzibar for the weekend. So we hung out at Baga Point and then went to the arts college which was having some sort of outdoor dance party thing. It was a lot of fun. And finally, on the way home I completed my goal of riding a piki piki! It's a motor bike and you can go anywhere in town for 500 shillings (about 40 cents).
Saturday I just hung around the homebase until it was time to leave. We left at 2 pm because Doug and John needed to pay for their tickets for the following day before the airport office closed. The traffic was pretty bad and it took like 3 hours to get to Dar. I could never live in Dar. It's so ugly and trafficy. Yuck. So I had like 4 hours to hang in the airport before my flight. I just read and bought some snacks and went through security and all that. It's a really small airport. The power went off twice when I was going through security and they had to re-boot the system. Finally we boarded and luckily no one was assigned to the seat next to me so I had room to stretch out a bit. We stopped in Nairobi, Kenya for about an hour and then continued on our way to Zurich.
I tried to get some sleep around 2 am but that's when restless legs kicked in and I felt like I wanted to run a marathon. So I walked around the plane a bit and then looked out the window for a while. There was lightning happening in the clouds below the plane. Seeing lightning from above it was really cool! It looked like someone was in the clouds taking pictures with a really bright flash. There were about 4 or 5 spots of reoccuring lightning. Finally around 3 or so I fell asleep for about 2 hours.
Once at the Zurich airport I found my way to the dayroom area and paid about 10 USD for a shower. Totally worth it though. The Zurich airport is so clean and nice! And then I found a lounge where there were about 6 other people sleeping and I found a bench and fell asleep for about 2 and a half hours (wearing an eye mask and everything).
I didn't really get antsy until the last few hours of my second flight. By then I was ready to get off the plane and be home already.
Now I've been home for a day and half. It's strange. It feels like I've been away for a long time and at the same time it feels like I didn't go away at all.
The rest of the summer is looking a bit bland what with working 2 jobs and a lot of my friends being away. But I think I'll be able to figure out ways to make it enjoyable.
That's all for now. I will post later with a bunch of pictures from the trip, once I upload everything.

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