Saturday, September 8, 2007

Shaking start

I arrived here at Lwiro yesterday afternoon. Carmen met me at the UN airport after a short flight from Entebbe in Uganda. There is also one other volunteer here, her name is Rachel and she is from Australia.
At about one-two in the morning last night we woke up from the house shaking, a lot.
It was an earthquake! Apparently it had its centre at the Kahuzi volcano not very far from here. Quite scary really, the ground is not supposed to move! But nobody was hurt and the house is still standing so that’s good. But the roof had fallen down in one of the rooms at the guesthouse, but luckily the person inside managed to get out…(Turns out it was in Arusha in Tanzania, volcanic eruption, haven't seen any news so you probably know more than me, and it was at 6 on the ritchers scale here!)
Nothing broke in our house or at the sanctuary, maybe apart from some roof tiles falling down, so it’s all good.
I’m in quarantine until Wednesday, so I’m sitting at the steps of the sanctuary, overlooking the corridor where the chimps baby group live. Trying to tell them all apart! There are 12 chimps in the group aged between 1,5 and 4-5 years.


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