Asante Tanzania
We’re on a train through and out of Tanzania and as I watch its beauty roll by, I’m filled with affection and gratitude. A year is a long time, but…
Category: GHSP
I will sit with you awhile
Last week I sat across from one of my students at my desk in the internal medicine office and he told me stories. He told me that he left medical school two…
Photo Blog: The Apartment – Update
It’s time for an apartment update! We’ve now been living in our place in Dar es Salaam for 3 months. We’ve started work (in earnest) but that doesn’t mean we haven’t…
Posts from Instagram: Work Life
I know many of our blog readers don’t use Instagram, so I’m cross-posting a few entries here. These are stories that all relate to my work life, or my processing…
Morogoro Weekend
The last weekend in October, a group of GHSP volunteers living in Dar met up with our friends in Dodoma, also GHSP volunteers, for a weekend of adventure before beginning…
Safari, Part 2
We stood staring out over the Serengeti, squinting behind out sunglasses as we barreled along into the wind and dust, the car dodging around on the unpaved rutted road. We…
Summer is Coming
We just started Season 6 of Game of Thrones. Our march through the epic drama somehow marks our time in Tanzania. We started watching in earnest when we moved into…
Safari, Part 1
The driver cut the engine, the roar of the Land Rover dissipating as it stopped in the middle of the road. It seemed silent at first but then the chatter…
Stonetown, Zanzibar
At the end of September we took our first much anticipated trip to Zanzibar. Ever since learning about SEED Global Health I began dreaming of visiting Zanzibar’s tropical and exotic…