Tomorrow marks the end of my posh corps experience – I’ll leave Dar bright and early to return to my beloved Southern Highlands. By Thursday evening I’ll be back in the vil and there will be no more AC, fans, running water, western style toilets, refrigerators, stoves and ovens, carpets, dirt free floors, internet, electricity, …
16 July 2015
Wow, it’s been almost a month since I last wrote an entry. Time is certainly speeding along. I had an amazing 4th of July weekend with lots of other volunteers (all from my training class but one) in Liuli, a village on the shore of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi). It took a long, long time …
"Though I have seen the right turn wrong, And common things grow strange, O I have watched the moons too long To be afraid of change." -Haniel Long, from his poem, The Conspiracy Thanks, Alenka!
19 June 2015
It has been a busy week and a half! I’ve met with so many people, asking so many questions both in Swahili and English. I learned about the water issues in the Ward. There was a Peace Corps volunteer in the neighboring village, same Ward, in 2001-2002 who did a water project in my village. …
8 June 2015
Just been a few days since I wrote my last blog, but I find there are already stories to tell. I returned to my village on Saturday and had quite the coasta ride. It was packed – much more than usual – and while I got a normal seat in the front row, it was …
5 June 2015
Well, it has been a while since my last blog entry, and a lot has happened. First of all there was super-regionals in Iringa. Then came another two weeks in the vil. After that, a trip into town to go to the nearby lake that turned into a 9-day long adventure to Dar and back. …
For Robbie
I see your joy in the sun as it peaks above the horizon; I see your joy in the clouds that change from white to yellow, to orange to pink, to gray; I see your joy in the magnificently ragged mountains, and the exhilaration at their peaks; I see your joy in the flight of …
My house!
The front. My courtyard out back. Choo (toilet) on the left, bafu (bath) is next to the choo around the side, then two storage/jiko (kitchen) areas on the right. The main room. Room where I store food and dishes and jikos (stoves - I have a kerosene and charcoal jiko). Also where I cook. My …
30 April 2015
It has been an exhausting week! I left Dar last Thursday to travel to my banking town, spent Friday meeting important political officers and immigration officials, visiting the bank (which was out of money…) and post office, and shopping for some few items to make it through the first week(s) at site. I arrived here …
20 April 2015
A few pictures... A Child Health Clinic facilitated by a Korean NGO (UHIC) and the Keeper Project - a Tanzanian government sponsored project that trains individuals from villages all over in basic health knowledge and record keeping. Those individuals then stay in their community, provide basic health care, remind mothers about monthly clinics, and keep individual's …
marks in the sand 