21/9 and 22/9: Relaxation

Today I planned to meet with some of the other volunteers; Nienke, Sarah, a German vegetarian working with human rights and Genna an Australian here for her medicine studies, at the Ilboru Safari Lodge pool, which we did. It was a lot bigger than at mt. Meru hotel, but not as luxurious, a lot cheaper though. There weren’t so many people so we could just relax and swim a bit, though it took two hours before we could actually swim, because it was being cleaned - very thoroughly. We ate lunch there as which was nice. Then I had to get back around 3 pm to talk to Iddi. Because I am planning a mt. Meru trek, for five people his first price had been 490 USD per person, which was too much I said, and then it was down to 470 USD, still quite a bit of money, so he came today to talk about it. I said that there were some of the people who were still unsure because of the amount of money we had to pay, but that they all later wanted to climb Kilimanjaro as well, so I think I made it sound like an investment to have a lower price. He then went back to Moshi to work a bit on the numbers. On Sunday he wrote me a new price: 395 USD, which is a really nice price for three days, so I am hoping the others will want to come with this price. So far it is Gustav, Marco, Freja and me, originally also Genna, but she has figured out her host brother or something has his graduation the same day that she has to go to. I am hoping I can find some other people, who will want to join, so that we can keep the price down. Today I also washed, not all my clothes, as there was too much, but quite a bit, but I think I will do it again in a week’s time, because it is too much to do all at once. Other than that I just relaxed.