7/26/09: Well, if you can believe it, it's somehow the day before my departure from Africa and my arrival in Israel. How it got from June 17th to today, I have no idea...but it seems to have gone by so fast. It's a bit depressing and making matters worse is the fact that everyone has left and I'm sitting here alone and bored. Luckily, Solomon is going to call me later and have me come out to dinner with him and his brother and his brother's girlfriend. I told him last night I was going to be alone tonight and he [View Full Entry]

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7/24/09: Hello all, time for the daily blog. To pick up where I left off yesterday... After discovering the ICTR was closed, Jessie, Tom, Carrie and I decided to walk to a shopping complex called Njiro, where the cinema is. It was like a 3km walk, but we had nothing else to do. Along the way we passed the Kilimanjaro Brewery so we tried to see if we could get a tour. The brewery was like a maximum security prison! More security at the brewery than at the ICTR I swear. Anyhow, we couldn't get a tour because we weren't an [View Full Entry]

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7/23/09: Well as you all may have noticed, I haven't done a blog update since Monday...the reason? The lull has set in! So for a quick run through...Tuesday we didn't have class, so Emily and I slept in (unfortunately missing breakfast) but we decided to go to Via Via for lunch and coffee. We each had a delicious sandwich and when we first got there their coffee machine wasn't working, but the somehow managed to fix it and brew coffee just for us. It tasted a bit stale, but I was happy to have something other than instant (though I do [View Full Entry]

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7/20/09: Well as luck would have it, the internet is LIGHTENING speed tonight, so the pictures are up! I took about 190, but I only posted 65 of the really good ones. Hope you all enjoy!!! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2090788&id=24706605&l=3540522de0 [View Full Entry]

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7/20/09: Jammmbooo Short entry for today because I feel like yesterday took a lot out of everyone who read it. The most important thing for today was the speaker that we had, which was arranged by myself, with the fabulous help of Dr. Max Hilaire. After the speaker from the defense at the ICTR had to cancel a few weeks ago, I emailed Dr. Hilaire and told him we were disappointed. As he has contacts just about everywhere, he informed me he knew a man who was on the defense counsel and he would put me in touch with him. I [View Full Entry]

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7/18/09: Habari za asabuhi? (Good morning / news of the morning?) Well our exciting safari adventure started in the early morning…we were packed and down at breakfast by 8:30. I was really tired because I hadn’t sleep well the night before and was really looking forward to coffee and the usual omelet. Luckily breakfast was no indication of how the rest of the day would go; my usual delicious omelet was sour and rotten smelling…I didn’t really get as far as tasting. But at least I got my coffee in… By 9am we were on the road to Tarangiere. Talk about [View Full Entry]

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7/19/09: Hamjambooo I know you're all waiting for it (or at least I'm going to pretend you're all waiting for it) and the safari blog will be happening soon. I'm going to write it tonight in bed, or tomorrow after class and then post it. I'm just too exhausted to do it all right now. Pictures, which there are a ton of, will hopefully be following not long after. Looking forward to sharing my awesome safari experience with you all!! Kwaheri! <3<3<3 [View Full Entry]

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7/17/09: Hamjambo everyone. Time for a blog session...I think I'm behind a day or so.. 7/16/09: Today was our last day of presentations for class. They were really good and very thorough...I think the best ones were today. Emily's especially, my roommate, her presentation was AMAZING. She did it on the "largest hospital" in Northern Tanzania, one that caters for almost 11 million people....but don't think it was anything like a US hospital. She made such great recommendations for how they could improve in each sector, I told her she should seriously send her presentation to the direct [View Full Entry]

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7/15/09: Hamjambo everyone, hope all is well. Today was a good day. I had my presentation, so I dressed up a bit (Mom, the skirt we bought from H and M looked so cute!!). I've been a bit confused by some of the presentations so far...mostly for two reasons: 1. people have been SITTING at the table and 2. People have been reading directly off slides!! Now maybe it's just me, but I'm fairly confident that most of my professors in college would NOT have been very happy with a student who both sat down, and read directly from their slides [View Full Entry]

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7/14/09: Greetings all...today was a bit of a dull day, not much to report on. As usual, Emily and I stayed up late chatting, but once I finally fell asleep I was woken up by consistent stomach pains. This morning I found myself in the fetal position unable to move. Emily made the executive decision that I should miss class (we're doing presentations and it was only a half day) and rest. I couldn't tell you what was wrong with me, but it hurt like hell. I'm guessing something I ate...? In any case, I missed class, but headed up to [View Full Entry]

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