Trip to East Africa Oct 2006

Trip to East Africa

Hi everybody,

Although this was a bid adventure in East Africa, mainly full of work and experiments.

This trip started in August 17^th. I have headed to Tanzania. Over there worked in some experimental plots that are design to test the efficiency of mangrove filtration sewage. Then, at the end pf August, I have headed to Mozambique where I have stayed for 1 month. Although had planned for 4 days of vacation … well had to postpone them to Tanzania.

In Tanzania stayed for also another month and although I was thinking of finishing everything by the 10^th of October, I flu to Kenya on the 19^th and was in the lab till 4am that day, and my flight from Dar to Mombassa was at 6.30am J

In Mombassa, things went smooth and nicely. I collected some samples from the places I had to and then took 2 days of before flying to Portugal in the beginning of November.

Had time to dive in Malindi, that was named after Vasco da Gama’s wife, called Melinda. Had also time to go to a snake Park where you are able to see and touch (in some cases) the most deadly snakes in Africa (like black manbas, najas and vipers). After this first day, I managed to go to Tsavo, one of Kenyan wildparks.

Hope to get news from you too. Will be in Portugal till December 16^th, and will only be back from Brazil (Xmas and New Years Eve with family) by January 11^th for 3 weeks, before returning to Africa.

A big hug and kisses,

Gil

Time for Poetry …at Mombassa, Kenya

Time for Poetry...

Be

“Be always where you are,

Be always who you are,

Be always …. You,

Because you just … Are,

So … just Be.”

Time for Thoughts...

“Happiness …

Some people may say it does not exist…

Some people may say it is something that comes, but always goes away…
Some people know how to show it, but they don’t know how it feels.

Well, Happiness is a way of living Life.

It does not come and go,

You need to choose to be Happy,

You have to learn, feel and most of all… you have to accept.

… Only then you will set yourself free”

Time for advices...

“Always choose wisely

Study the options with your mind

Choose with your heart

Set the way with the help of the mind again.”

The way

“The most important is not in which way you are,

Or where is this way going to take you,

Or if you are doing it slow or fast,

But if you really are in the way that you are,

And if you really enjoy yourself … and the way.

It is a question of how you walk the way,

Because happiness and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

Interesting Quotes … from the past.

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

Albert Einstein (But, hopefully, this now is increasing a lot :)

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”

Albert Einstein

“We must become the change we want to see in the world.”
Mohandas Gandhi

...and from the present

“A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the Love in what he does”

Dan Milan

...and others…

“Look with the eyes of the face and you will see an error,

Look with the eyes of the soul and you will see a lesson”

GPL

“Look with the eyes of the face and you will see an injustice,

Look with the eyes of the soul and you will see an opportunity to teach”

GPL

“People may know a lot of languages and talk with a lot of other people, but they only need to know one of them to start talk with themselves”

GPL

“If everybody would communicate with themselves for 30 minutes a day, the world would be in peace already”

GPL

“Put somebody in an empty room, alone, for 1 hour and I will tell you how he/she is. Put him/she for 2 hours and I will tell you who he/she is.”

GPL