Kiswahili
Olivia and I have been learning Swahili for the past few weeks and I’ve really been enjoying it. It’s a fun language to learn and speak and it has an interesting…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…