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May 2007
The journey continues . . . As many of you have predicted and requested, the traveling and the travel blog continues. I'm heading back to London with a three month ticket. I have no plans yet, just a bunch of ideas, but I'm looking forward to seeing where I end up and enjoying my last hoorah before going back to a mortgage paying US Citizen again.

May 2006
My new journey in life begins with a four month trip through Europe, through August 31st. I have rented my home in San Francisco for 1 year, so who knows, this journal may continue past August! Stay tuned and enjoy!

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By ChristyF
October 13th 2007

Maasai in The City

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Chrissy Field

Kesuma, founder of Kitumusote (www.kitumusote.org/) came to the United States and I had the opportunity to show him around San Francisco for the day. So much fun! And, we happened to run into another Maasai visiting from Kenya too! [View Full Entry]

By ChristyF
August 24th 2007

Goodbye Tanzania

Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha

Outside Tumaini's House
With her Aunt who she lives with.

During my time in Tanzania, there were two girls who really stood out for me . . . Tumaini, who wants to become a doctor and Furahini, who wants to become a secretary. Both these girls represent over 100 children from the village where I worked who are orphans (meaning one or both parents have died or left them) and not currently going to school. I was fortunate enough to meet both of these girls and decided to visit their homes to learn more about their daily life. I knew where Furahini lived, but had not been to Tumaini’s home and [View Full Entry]

By ChristyF
August 23rd 2007

One More Orphanage Visit and Our Business Seminar

Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha

Calm Before The Storm
Walking into the Orphanage before the children wake up.

A couple of our volunteers left a day early so I replaced them at the orphanage so I could see the kids again. My last visit was later in the day so this was a totally different experience to come in the morning before they all wake up. I’m so impressed with the volunteers who were on this project each day. To wash and cloth that many children in such disarray is a feat. There are clothes everywhere in no particular order, half are not even dry, and you almost have to try to catch a kid to get them dressed [View Full Entry]

By ChristyF
August 22nd 2007

Thompson And THE Kili Shot

Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha

Kilimanjaro at Dusk

Ok, so yes I’m home, and easily distracted from my writing by all America has to offer on a daily basis, but, I still have a couple more “must share” experiences from Africa, so the blog is continuing for a little longer (with more pics and videos too). . . . Definitely a highlight of this trip was meeting a man named Thompson and visiting the “Hopeful English School” he started out of his house and has since grown to three buildings. Near the end of our stay in Tanzania, a small group of us went to visit Thompson, a former [View Full Entry]

By ChristyF
August 21st 2007

Pete's, Polaroids and the Posse

Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha

Compound Entrance

(remember, we're pretending it's August and I'm in Africa) Pete Our group took a field trip to see Pete O'Niel, a self-exiled Black Panther from the US. He and his wife Charlotte moved to Tanzania 37 years ago from Kansas City, where he was the head of the Kansas City Black Panther chapter. He and his wife have developed "United African Alliance Community Center" outside of Arusha National Park. Kids come to the compound to learn music, sewing and other trades, arts and crafts, languages and computers and they also work on community projects such as building a well for running [View Full Entry]

By ChristyF
August 20th 2007

Maasai Way of Life

Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha

Outside the Bomba

On Sunday, the American family that climbed Kili and I took a day trip into the unknown. Abu, one of the Hatari drivers, took us for a ride out into the bush in search of a Maasai Village where 'supposedly' you can visit with the community, learn about their culture and ride camels? There was a brochure on the whole thing, but the owners of the hotel had never been on this 'excursion', so they said "you're on you own and let us know how it goes". At least they said it would be a nice drive. So off we went [View Full Entry]

By ChristyF
August 18th 2007

Hatari Means Danger

Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha

Giraffes!
The minute we pulled into the park.

(So if you've talked to me or seen me in the last couple days, time to be childlike and PRETEND I'm still in Africa.) :-) For my second weekend in Tanzania I decided that I wanted to see more animals and take a little break from the group setting so I booked a weekend at Hatari Hotel in Arusha National Park. The driver from Hatari, Rashid, picked me up at CCS and took me for a afternoon game drive through the park on the way to the hotel. Rashid is a VERY safe driver (read between the lines: very SLOW driver) [View Full Entry]

By ChristyF
August 16th 2007

Zik's Moshi

Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi

The Magnificent Baobao Tree
These trees are HUGE!

Today our whole group went to Moshi for the day. Moshi is a the next largest city to Arusha about 2 hours from Tengeru. The difference between Arusha and Moshi is apparent when as you drive in. Moshi won the award last year for the cleanest city in Tanzania and you can tell. You rarely see trash and plastic laying around on the side of the street. Traffic violators are required to clean the streets to make up for their violation. It would be nice if other cities could learn from Moshi and adopt this practice. Zik, one of our program [View Full Entry]

By ChristyF
August 13th 2007

Blind Center and Upendo Foundation Week 2

Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha

Geofrey and Shija

Shija works closely with Geofrey, a former Benedictine Monk, who is now focused on supporting blind people in Tanzania, beginning in Arusha. Shija took me on my first Dala Dala ride to the Blind Center Geofrey has developed. Dala Dalas (their version of busses) . . . They are minivans CRAMMED with people in it. There is a driver and a conductor. The conductor rides standing up and usually has his head stuck out the window searching for customers. They are marked by a striped color as to which direction they will head (where I work and live is the Green [View Full Entry]

By ChristyF
August 12th 2007

Safari Day 2

Africa » Tanzania » North » Lake Manyara

Okay I Won't

We found Elephants! Yesterday at Ngorongoro Crater we saw one or two elephants REALLY far away and no Giraffes. Our guide told us Lake Manyara is the place and sure enough we drove in the park and saw fresh elephant remains immediately followed by elephants everywhere. The best was the baby elephant that was just learning to walk. It would take a couple steps and face plant into the dust. Here comes the Star Wars geek in me with this analogy, but watching him trying to walk reminded me of the Imperial Walker things from Return of the Jedi in the [View Full Entry]

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Blogs & Travel Journals

Maasai in The City

Goodbye Tanzania

One More Orphanage Visit and Our Business Seminar

Thompson And THE Kili Shot

Pete's, Polaroids and the Posse

Maasai Way of Life

Hatari Means Danger

Zik's Moshi

Blind Center and Upendo Foundation Week 2

Safari Day 2