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…
Tag: Tanzania
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…
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…
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…
Safari, Part 1
The driver cut the engine, the roar of the Land Rover dissipating as it stopped in the middle of the road. It seemed silent at first but then the chatter…
Stonetown, Zanzibar
At the end of September we took our first much anticipated trip to Zanzibar. Ever since learning about SEED Global Health I began dreaming of visiting Zanzibar’s tropical and exotic…
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…