So i am back ... wow i am proud of myself 2 entries in 2 days ... don't get too used to it! So i decided to continue my story about Zanzibar while i have decent internet. So we are in stone town (i believe thats where i stopped the story) and at night we go to the film festival its called ziff and its the African International film festival and got to see great music and movies ... we watched a movie about women in Sudan that if they have pre marital sex and they are found (aka pregnancy) they [View Full Entry]

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"You've been traveling for a while haven't you?" one of the girls I took the ferry from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar with asked me. "Oh, I'm used to it... I've had plenty of training in SE Asia, especially Indonesia" I told her after a little incident that went something like this: We get out of the taxi at the dock. "No thank you. Please don't touch my bag. I am not paying you to carry it. I will carry it myself," I said while pushing away 8 agressive men trying to attack my backpack. "There is only 1 boat today," [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from Dar Es Salaam~ There is so much to share as I have not been able to post for quite awhile. I made an attempt the past two days and have had trouble with the internet and the post fails. I am hoping that I have better luck and can share this and the photos with you. =) Abu and I have spent some time going around the city: running errands, showing me the different parts of town, and taking the nieces/nephews out for ice cream. This past weekend Abu and I traveled to Zanzibar by ferry. We were running [View Full Entry]

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We just returned from Bwejuu, a small village on the east coast yesterday. It was amazing! Somehow we managed to get a reservation at Bahari Beach Village, a resort that isn't even officially open yet because the ownership has just changed. We were the only guests and therefore we were waited on hand and foot. Our bungalow was located literally 10 feet from the ocean and durning the day we searched for shells and worshipped the sun. The beaches in the US have no where near the amount of variety of shells that the east coast of Zanzibar has. We found [View Full Entry]

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We have arrived in Tanzania!!! Four days ago we took a 14 hour long bus ride down from Nairobi to Dar Es Salaam. The muslim influence was immediately apparent once we crossed the border. Men walk around wearing rectangle hats and women walk around covered from head to foot. Even the environment was different from Kenya. Where much of Kenya is dry and sun-scorched, Tanzania is extremely lush with many palm trees and big bushes. Unfortunately, we didn't arrive in Dar Es Salaam until 9pm, when the sun had already set, so we didn't get to get dinner or explore the [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, I had a really great time in Zanzibar. Got the bus at 7am on Friday, feeling very tierd and slightly hungover from the night before. Arrived at Dar es Saalam at 3.30pm, the last ferry to Zanzibar left at 4pm so it was a mad rush to get in a taxi and then buy the ferry tickets. I managed to get there with 10 minutes to spare, and thew up on the 2hr crossing! Eventually made it to Kendwa rocks (a beach resort at the north of the island) by 8pm. I met a South African guy there, Warren [View Full Entry]

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Hello! I know I said I'd write more often but I feel like I've been dead busy. Looking back on it though, haven't really done much! I guess I'm just lazy! Last Last Thursday we went to Prison Island. Its called Prison sland because the Zanzibarians started to build a prison there. When it was finished, however, there was a massive outbreak of cholera on the mainland so the building was used as a quarantine facility for people showing symptoms coming across to the islands. Now the building is a very expensive restaurant but the island is also home to a [View Full Entry]

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Hi everybody. This will be the final post on this blog for my semester abroad. I'm going to keep it active so you and others can look at it and the pics. Yet it will also stay alive because I will continue to post on it. Likely when I travel, this will be the place where I update yall but I also might do a couple Lancaster editions too (plenty of adventures there too ya know). As always, thanks so much for reading. Hope that you've enjoyed reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it. Hope you've tried to [View Full Entry]

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"Hooray he's alive!!!" I know most of you are saying that right now. Its been seemingly forever since I last posted here. "Oh darn, he was better off missing" is what my enemies are saying right now, dissappointed to hear that I have, in fact, survived my three weeks in Muungoni, Zanzibar and month long research project. But I am alive, I swear. Also, I have no idea why my enemies would read my blog. Ok, so studying traditional medical practices and medicinal plants in Muungoni was, in short, awesome. Learned so much, not only about my project but just about [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys! Sorry I haven't written in a while but have been quite busy here so got loads to tell you....you might want to get yourself a cuppa because this could take a while! The first Monday I was here was Easter Monday so no-one went into the hospital. It was also Brian's (one of the medics) birthday so to celebrate we had a sunset dhow ride from Stone Town. It was really nice and there was a band playing as well as lots of wine! When we came back we had a bbq and a house party (which involved 6 [View Full Entry]

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