Midwife Life: International Day of the Midwife 2018
I am not currently working as a midwife. But I am always a midwife. I recently read ‘So Good They Can’t Ignore You’, which I can’t really say I recommend,…
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Teaching Midwifery
She walked into the auditorium with a khanga wrapped around her chest, her large belly pointing forward, a sway in her back, and moaning loudly as the pitch of her…
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…
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…
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…