A Letter to My Congressman
Dear Congressman Blumenauer, I am despondent by this week’s events. I chose “environment” from the topic choices above because I had to choose something, but from Trump’s Executive Order watering…
32 and no kids
Did I title this post so you would read my thoughts about the value of reproductive choice? Yes, I did. The first day of class, after introducing myself to my…
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…
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…