Only left it one month this time! And should be a reasonably short entry, just wanting to let you know I’m all alive and have not been thrown onto the streets of Dar... First things first - my mini-break with Emily. The first day of arrival I was just way too over excited and wanted everybody’s news. My hyper activeness was heightened by the fact that Emily made me a coffee and walnut cake and managed to get it through customs. I’ve never tasted anything so good - it felt very much like Christmas Day to me - that feeling [View Full Entry]

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Ive been up to a personal project recently and i have been moving to different places in the outskirts of Dare salaam inside the beautiful mysterious valleys probably unknown to the rest of the world. And what i was doing was pretty unusual, yes really unusual for a Tanzanian to do this, and i was simply looking for plants that are uniquely found and flourishing in Tanzania. Since i started the photographing stage of the Plant Life In Tanzania project i have been curiously keeping my attention to the gold mine that is found in the plants and flowers that flourish [View Full Entry]

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I have been to this valley recently, its a pretty good place to take my mind of in Daresalaam. This seems to be like an ancient riverbed or some kind of lake, i don't know yet but ill find that out soon and what seems to be interesting about this place is the natural way that the people live in this particular valley in such a way that i feel right at home when i cross. when you start to descend to walk at the bottom the first thing you notice is the peace and then you realize that you are [View Full Entry]

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Hello there! I'm looking to relocate from Brussels to Dar es salaam in January 2010 - I'm looking to get a visa for a year, but am pretty open minded with no immediate mid to long-term plans, so coudl easily stay longer if I find myself loving it! I'd love to teach English in local schools and learn Swahili, alongside teaching drama/theatre in International schools (I assume that since I speak no Swahili as yet, this could only be done in International schools...?) However, I need advice! Where is good to live in Dar for a 23 yr old British/Finnish girl? [View Full Entry]

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So on my way home last night I decided to take a short-cut through the back of Masaki, an old fishing village now absorbed into the big urban sprawl of Dar es Salaam. The roads, predictably un-tarmacced (spelling?!?!) are terrible, which is great as it means noone else goes that way and I can escape the heavy traffic along the main road. Turning a corner I had to pull up short, as in front of me was something of an obstruction in the road. One of the egg-men (who carry eggs in trays by the hundred on the back of a [View Full Entry]

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Mambo marafiki wangu! (Some homework for you all…) Ok, so apologies again for taking so long to write this, I have no doubt whatsoever that my travel blog is the highlight of your days/weeks/months and therefore that I have failed you all with my lack of reporting, I am most sorry! So what’s been happening on this side of the ‘pond’? Let’s start with work! So strangely much of my time now seems to be filled teaching - not something I predicted I’d be doing at all but I’m actually really enjoying it! I’ve been doing sessions in 3 main seco [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone! I guess it’s been a while since I posted… I’ve been in the field the last several days where I got to chase a bunch of elephants (yay!), and also- just as fun, to take all my field assistants into the park, just as a thank you for all their hard work. These are the field assistants who collect data on elephant raids in the villages where they each live- one in particular is from a very remote village that is some distance from the park, but still gets elephant raids. Everyone was very happy for the chance to [View Full Entry]

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OK so Day Mark #1 of Blog #2. Last time I tried this I didn't get very far - despite having a seemingly endless story bank it felt weird typing it all up onto the screen. SO I gave up. However since then I have found myself reading other people's blogs with increasing interest, and thought I'd have another go. Life here is so endlessly absurd, so utterly ridiculous, that often the sheer lunacy drifts into the mundane and I need to give myself a shake to remind myself - here I am, this is me, I am doing this.... The [View Full Entry]

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And thus, my third Annual Charity Goat Race rolled around! This time, we went ahead and decided to be Goat Owners. So... we came up with the stable name (70s Prime Time), breeders' name, racing style, and Goat Name... The LOVE GOAT! One of the catches of owning a goat, is that you never actually see the goat until race time. It's all for show... there's no training, fine-tuning, etc. possible. But, as an owner, you get to wear a themed costume to support your goat, and you get to spend your day in the Owners' tent, which entails free food [View Full Entry]

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Hallo allemaal, Dit is mijn laatste blog uit Tanzania, morgen vlieg ik, helaas!, terug naar Nederland. De reis is fantastisch geweest, een onvergetelijke ervaring. De laatste twee weken heb ik hele bijzondere dingen meegemaakt, en het meeste daarvan heb ik niet verteld aan jullie, gewoon omdat ik geen tijd had voor een extra blog. De interviews en bezoeken aan de dorpen, de reizen door Tanzania, de kennismaking met hele open, aardige en bijzondere mensen, van Mr.Mukumwa en Bwire tot Mr. Kimbwereza, Faith, Sese, Dennis, Mr. Maganga en vele anderen, is een voorrecht geweest. Ik zal het [View Full Entry]

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