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…
Category: Africa
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…
Photo Blog: The Apartment
In GHSP, housing is the responsibility of host institutions, and ours has done a great job putting us up in university-owned apartments. Our building is 4 stories and within a…
Work Life in Tanzania
Long story short, we are here to work. Sure we’ll hit up Zanzibar, a safari, and maybe climb a mountain, but we signed up with GHSP to use our medical…