I am home! And it is snowing outside. It’s beautiful. Welcome to the Christmas season!
I’m pretty overwhelmed right now, as I try to get back into life here. I visited St. Olaf on Sunday night and nearly drowned in the amount of information I had to process immediately. I was fully aware that time passes [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘tanzania’
16 December 2008
Advent Conspiracy
9 December 2008
Ukerewe Island
Well it turns out Mwanza is not my favorite place in Tanzania. The city is big and dirty and not used to Wazungu, so just chilling for a week is not as easy as it is in Arusha. Zoe and I walked around for two days, each thinking the other was doing what she wanted [...]
5 December 2008
Mjini Mwanza
Well Zoe and I finally made it to Mwanza and what a trip it was!
We stayed at my favorite hostel in Arusha, Ujamaa Hostel, for the night and watched a good amount of Friends episodes with the other hostel guests. I swear, I will never get sick of that show. The great thing about Ujamaa [...]
2 December 2008
Tumefika Juu ya Mlima Kilimanjaro!
Well we made it! Mt. Kilimanjaro (5,985-ish meters), the Roof of Africa, was conquered by myself and three good girlfriends at 6am local time on November 28th, 2008. aka: during Thanksgiving dinner for all those in the United States.
We hiked for a total of 5 days through about 5 different ecological zones, [...]
28 November 2008
Uhuru
I have no pictures of the hike to the summit because it was way too cold to stop and take my camera out but that hike was the most beautiful thing I have ever experienced. I hiked with my headlamp off, trusting the guide and the light from others’ lamps. The hike to Gilman’s was [...]
24 November 2008
here i go!
Hey all!
I’m writing from the Marangu Hotel in Moshi, Tanzania. We have been briefed and are now “prepared” to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro tomorrow. We will do a five day climb via the Marangu Route and will reach Uhuru peak about the time all you USAers are eating Thanksgiving dinner – if all goes well, of [...]
18 November 2008
snail mail
Hello all!
Just a quick note: I will be leaving Dar at the end of this week and won’t be back until I come back to leave the country on December 11th. Because snail mail takes a few weeks, I can’t promise I’ll get any mail that isn’t sent today or tomorrow. My suggestion would be [...]
12 November 2008
sometimes you don’t want to just sit and watch
I have just finished catching up on Chelsea’s India adventures and I’ve got to say, I’ve been shamed. Somehow, from the middle of nowhere India, she has managed to keep you all updated about the wonderful things she has done these past few months – and in glowing detail nonetheless! Her stories of [...]
6 November 2008
yeah i’m back
Yep. sorry I didn’t give a recap on my month-long excursion in that last post. American politics took precedence. I’ve got to say, though, it was really fun to post that from the US Embassy in Tanzania. What a great election story.
I don’t have much time left on my computer in this internet [...]
5 November 2008
OBAMA!
WELL! That was exciting! I’ve got to say, the excitement and anticipation that no doubt ran rampant in the US in the last 24 hours definitely permeated my corner of Africa. Was Obama talking to me and my five friends as we sat huddled over a hand radio in a taxi on the way to [...]
