I'm leaving for Africa in one day. Busy printing out pictures at the moment to take with me in a photo album. I'm very excited. Going to town soon to buy last minute things that I need. Hopefully I'll be able to get on the internet every day when I'm out there to add a new entry. Keep a look out :) Caitlin x [View Full Entry]

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Dear Blog Readers, There is power today in the town of Kilosa so we can get on-line. The last few times we've tried, we haven't been able to log on, or after walking 1/2 hour to town, the power was still out, etc. So, to bring you up to date, here's goes! The training has been intense 8 to 5, 6 days a week. On Sunday it's walk to church for a 2 hr. service, wash clothes by hand, do homework, help prepare the meals, and in bed by 9. The Kiswahili language has been very difficult for me, but I'm [View Full Entry]

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I wrote in a previous entry about Abel, the gardener, and his cute daughter Lydia. Lydia had been deathly afraid of me and Abel and I have only greeted each other. Until yesterday. Sara and Kayli (the two LSU girls) have taken a liking to Lydia so she has slowly warmed up to me. Yesterday, however, we were like friends. It was pretty sweet. So yesterday, Sara was sitting outside talking to Abel and his wife, Fani, while Lydia was walking around doing her thing. I arrived home and decided to join in on the conversation. They know absolutely no English [View Full Entry]

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(1) One of the TAs, Elina, speaks French (better than English too), so today in class, I couldn't think of the English word so I asked her for the French word. In Bagomoyo, Elina, the Ashleys, Pulcherry, and I spoke to each other in French over dinner. Sadly, mon francais a beacoup de mots kwa Kiswahili, kama "kwamba" na "na." It was frustrating, but pretty sweet anyway. (2) I am supposed to be interviewing a guy in the Manzese Mitumba Market for Professor Rivoli of the Georgetown School of Business. Problem is, all of the helpful translators keep disappearing on me. [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone!! We have returned safe and sound from our beautiful time in Zanzibar, covered in henna and slightly sunburned (and Matt is a tad hungover as well!!). We are just in Dar es Salaam for the night, preparing for our long journey back to Nairobi and then home on Thursday. Hopefully, this trip will be slightly less adventurous than our journey here (ie - no cancelled flights or lost baggage!!) and things will go smoothly!! We're hanging out with a couple girls from the UK that we've become close with over our time here so it will be sad to [View Full Entry]

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Back at Snake Park we wanted to visit the clinic and the village. Ended up riding a camel to the village (I can't explain - no they are not native to these parts...) The village kids were so cute and they love having their photo taken! Then they crash tackle you until you let them see it! This village was quite different to the Masai village we visited in Kenya. It was a little bit more advanced. We visited an 80yr old mans house. He had 8 wives and 50 children! We left Arusha passing the point that is halfway between [View Full Entry]

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Friday morning began with a test. Not a particularly hard test, but five essays kwa Kiswahili does make one think a lot. The test ended around 11 in the morning, so most of us figured that we would grab lunch before packing and heading off to Bagomoyo. There was a problem, however - the cafeterias were not yet open. So we ended up going to the Euro H Restaurant to get the only prepared food they had - rice. The drive to Bagomoyo took just over an hour. Yet, it felt much longer because there were 15 of us and the [View Full Entry]

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Dette blir langt difor lagar eg eit flott lite abstract. Skulle til Moshi. vart rana med kniv. Tidenens HPA aktivering. Ved aa konstruere stadig nye oppgaaver og gjeremaal (handle mat, kjoepe klaere, besoeke ambasade, sjekke forsikring osb), samt med ein del 'ut zooming' (sjaa ting i ein stoerre samanheng) gaar det no fint. Ingen skader. Og no har eg i allefall lite aa dra paa! Aa bli kjendt med folk medan ein reisar er lett, og det kan skje paa mange maatar. Ein av dei er aa finne ein tilfeldig person og saa bli rana saman. Daa eg skulle ta bussen [View Full Entry]

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Sunday the 15th we left the Impala hotel in Arusha and drove to Moshi. When we arrived, we went to the Honey Badger Cultural Center. There, we took a guided walk around the village, and sampled some banana drank. Afterwards, the entire group participated in cooking a traditional Tanzanian lunch. This consisted of rice, ugahli, chipate, cooked bananas, wild spinach, okra, and sweet potato leaves (which were quite painful to peel). We ate an 'Africa Time' lunch, (~3 hours) and then watched and eventually participated in a traditional Tanzanian dance. The song was accompanied by drums, and the wo [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of going to a soccer match between world #13 Cameroon and world #101 Tanzania. It was at the new National Stadium. Even though almost all Tanzanians expected to lose, the city was remarkably transformed. Tanzanian pride blossomed in the streets and the stadium was nearly sold out. I was told that it has a capacity of 64,000. There were at least 60,000 people there, if not more. Luckily for me and Ashley, Mike managed to get us tickets in the relatively comfortable VIP section. We had an amazing view of the entire game and the crowd [View Full Entry]

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