- Our group was driving through Ngorongoro Crater, a national park in Tanzania, when our guide suddenly stopped the car and turned around to us, pointing out two lions in the grass. This was taken right before it came over to nap in the shade of our van.
2. This was a giant elephant in person. Baby elephants were able to walk under her. She ended up standing in front of our van for a solid 10 minutes.
3. Baboons are very social! They also love food, as I found out when one tried to take a box of cookies from me.
4. Giraffes were everywhere. My favorite part about them was their run, it looks like it’s in slow motion.
5. The first time I saw a zebra, I freaked out. By the end of our safari trip it seemed like an everyday sight. One morning I woke up and saw them behind my tent, and took this.
6. This picture has quite a story behind it. My friend Julianne and I were invited to shower our friend Loti’s cows. He then invited us to watch them slaughter a sheep for meat. We agreed, and it was quite the experience. This was the sheep skin.
7. This is a picture of the building of a kitchen, our main community service project. The kids there previously would have to walk miles to go home to eat lunch, and some wouldn’t return. Now that there’s a kitchen, food can be made at school.
8. We taught English and Math in a school with kids ages 5–14. This day, I was teaching 5 and 6 year olds to count in English.
9. Our village, Maji Moto, had a lot of people that belonged to the Masai Tribe. At our closing ceremony, they sang and danced for us, and we joined in. Part of it is a competition between males to see who can jump highest, which is what this picture is depicting. The building in the background is the kitchen we built.