Blogs from Africa - page 2709

Hello everyone! I hope that everyone is great and had a wonderful week. Alan and I did a lot of work this week... and got pretty sick as well (not because of the work, though). We got back into town on Wednesday and quickly made up for the two days that we missed. I really started getting into the research for my dissertation for university that is on the rural Kenyan Maasai pregnancy practices and beliefs... I started doing a lot of interviews and it was so interesting and so much fun. The women here are amazing... especially after you realize all the work they do while they are pregnant and still even while they are delivering children. They are remarkable. One of the woman said to me, "Now you know so much and you ... read more

This is the big one!!! Safariiiiii!!! So for our safari we went to Ngorongoro Crater, which is a huuuge conservation area. It is the world's largest unbroken volcanic caldera (formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption). It is sooo big, it's like 160 square miles... and 2,000 feet deep! It was soooo amazing.. the pictures don't even show it, but nevertheless there will be several on this entry! There were zebras EVERYWHERE and tons of wildebeests... lots of gazelles and hippos too, but it is hard to spot a lion, hyena, or rhino. There are a good amount of buffaloes too, and I wanted to get some pictures of them for Mom, but the buffaloes here look nothing like the ones you see in America, or the pictures! They look more like ... read more

Pictures from my mini-vacation to Dar Es Salaam and Zanzibar Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar » Stone Town By MadeleineJune 30th 2007My mini-vacation to Dar and ZanzibarMACHere are a bunch of pictures from my little mini-vacation to Dar Es Salaam and Zanzibar, plus a little safari.... read more

Hello and Happy early Canada Day to everyone back home We are currently in Kampala working with the Ugandan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA). We are here to the end of the week and will make a full update then. I have not updated recently and since our trip is more than half done I thought I would share some of the things we have learned and some words of wisdom (or what I try to pass off as wisdom). - warthogs like bannana peels - monkeys are far less funny when it looks like they want to get into your tent - do not walk around Ugandan National Parks after dark; you will get eaten (we did not test this theory but I was willing to go with it on faith) ... read more

I have been a little sidetracked the past few days... I have been in a village called KAPOETA about 120 km to the East of TORIT. It was a really great experience, and I got to know some of my colleagues better, made some new friends, and enjoyed my time away from the team site. We left for KAPOETA an hour and a half late, and this is fairly typical as punctuality is not a widely-respected quality in Sudan, or much of Africa for that matter. In fact, a simple, often-used expression for why things just aren’t working right is “TIA.... this is Africa.” I think that came from the Sean Connery/Michael Caine movie “The Man Who Would be King” Anyhow... I digress. During our time in KAPOETA, we made a day trip to the ... read more