Christmas in Spain: two guys, a girl and some Spanish places
As I stepped across the bathroom tiles of our AirBnB in Barcelona I found myself reverting to my old habit of placing most of the weight on the outside edges…
Category: Olivia
Dad
My Dad came to visit me in Tanzania. He committed to the adventure long before he was hospitalized with pneumonia and flew here less than two weeks after he was…
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…
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…
California Love
It felt strange to be settling into life in Tanzania and return to the States after barely finishing our orientation. One doesn’t feel they have yet earned a vacation. Luckily I’m…
Tanzanian Homestay
When you are in the traditional 27-month long Peace Corps program, a homestay entails living with a family for three months while you learn how to do daily activities of…
Dodoma Life
Life in Tanzania is feeling remarkably normal. We’ve been living in Dodoma for two weeks now, which apparently is long enough to feel like life is simple- maybe even boring,…
Drink more Chai
In the afternoons we sit in groups of four, sunlight sneaking in between the branches and falling across our table as Mama Zippo teaches us Swahili. The air is warm…
Goodbye to Portland
We are millennials, barely. A year or two older and we wouldn’t have made the cut. But as millennials we are used to photo documenting our lives. And while we…