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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…