Spider Hunting

After 26 straight hours of traveling, we finally arrived in Tanzania at about 9PM. We stayed the night at a hotel in Arusha which had awesome views of Mount Meru. All of us were pretty much out of our minds from exhaustion so the past two days all seem like one big crazy blur. This morning we drove 2 hours in the land rovers to the Moyo Hills field station which will be our home away from home for the next 3 months. It kind of feels like we're living in a forest because there are so many different kinds of trees and animals that surround us. There are Pied Crows everywhere which makes me incredibly happy and so many gigantic spiders! After dinner some of us went on a spider and toad hunt with our head lamps. Some of the staff helped us lure the spiders out of their holes with sticks and also helped us practice our swahili. The language barrier will take some getting used to. Overall, life so far in Tanzania is beautiful and its only just beginning!