Lushoto
Traveling somewhere new makes all the sights and sounds novel and exciting, fills my eyes with beauty and my mind with questions as I document the experience in my head along…
Category: Destinations
Top 5 Things To Do in Stone Town in the Rain
Trip: April 2017 Below is our Top 5 Things To Do in Stone Town in the Rain, part of the Just Carrying On – Top 5 Things To Do series. These lists are favorite…
Kizimkazi, Zanzibar
We arrived in Kizimkazi by ferry from Dar es Salaam, where we’re living for the year, and came looking for relaxation. We found it, eventually, after a bit of a rough…
Yoga in Dar es Salaam
Before moving to Tanzania, in true Olivia I-love-to-plan-fashion, I scoured the internet repetitively looking for studios and teachers in Dar. I wanted to plot out how long it would take…
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…
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…
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…
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…