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…
Category: Africa
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,…
A Peace Corps Primer
Today we arrived in Dodoma, the capital of Tanzania and fourth largest city with a population of just over 400,000, after a 10 hour bus ride through the beautiful countryside. We’ll…
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…
Interview with Seed Global Health
We had the pleasure of being interviewed for Seed Global Health’s blog, where they highlight stories of volunteers. It was fun to travel back in time and reflect on the…
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…
Fruition and Embarkation
While Jason suffered from some revenge that Peru was taking upon him alone in our hotel room, I spent our one evening in Lima dreaming of seeing the world while…
Tanzania!!!
We received our assignment from Global Health Service Partnership today. Beginning in July we’re heading to Dar es Salam in Tanzania to work at a university. More details to come,…