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No matter where I go, here I am. Three months in Tabora, Tanzania-. Sunday, August 8, 2010. MDP Intervention of the Week: Forestry Mobilization. On our first day riding around the villages for orientation, a ‘forest rest break’ was scheduled into our time. As we randomly stopped next to some little trees, sat on some dried leaves and jumped up when a giant spider walked along. We wondered- ‘forest wapi? 8221;- the first of many such utterances. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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No matter where I go, here I am. Three months in Tabora, Tanzania-. Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Swahili re-Word of the Day: Ndizi. This means banana. Ie: As I started to eat my ndizi in the reception room of Gombe Stream National Park, I walked towards the door, where I was spotted by a baboon who proceeded to barrel over to me, knock the ndizi out of my hand and runaway with it! Let me reiterate: Weekend Nzuri Sana. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Jess and Meg in Malawi.
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No matter where I go, here I am. Three months in Tabora, Tanzania-. Sunday, July 11, 2010. Swahili phrase of the day: Karibu Coconut. This literally means ‘welcome coconut’ and actually means ‘come, look at my coconuts’ Ie: In the market when Sarah and I spotted coconuts and contemplated buying them, the vendor motioned us over saying ‘Karibu, coconut! 8217; (why do you love America). Top answer: Obama/ Best answer: Because Ghana beat us/ Worst answer: Si jui (I don’t know). To bring in my campaign backg...
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no matter where I go, here I am.: November 2008
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No matter where I go, here I am. Three months in Tabora, Tanzania-. Monday, November 10, 2008. And so it begins, writing from my flight from Dubai to Dar es Salaam on the fabulous Emirates airline. I should actually lay out some context of what I am doing this summer:. Useful Context for Following this Blog:. Duncan- We call our team, team Duncan because spell checks change the word Tanzania to Duncan in some phones and application. Members of TZeam Duncan include Sarah, Annie, Lauren, Jane and Me. MDP-e...
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no matter where I go, here I am.: June 2010
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No matter where I go, here I am. Three months in Tabora, Tanzania-. Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Swahili Word of the Day: Kusukuma. It means to push. Ie: “Sukuma” said Lindsay to the girl as she pushed (ame sukuma) air upwards into her stomach cavity instead of down towards her uterus. Was also the experience of seeing live births and surgery for the first time. So it is. A optimistic would say: Lindsay is here to do capacity building and management work for the maternity ward and Tabora was just named to...
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no matter where I go, here I am.: ‘in our culture when you share a meal with someone it means that your togetherness is firm.’
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No matter where I go, here I am. Three months in Tabora, Tanzania-. Sunday, August 15, 2010. 8216;in our culture when you share a meal with someone it means that your togetherness is firm.’. Swahili Word of the Day: Nyamwezi. Tabora, a history. It will be sad to leave this place in a few hours but all in all, it’s been an amazing run. Have a safe trip home and come share a meal with me! August 18, 2010 at 7:00 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Jess and Meg in Malawi.
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No matter where I go, here I am. Three months in Tabora, Tanzania-. Thursday, August 12, 2010. MDP Project of the Day: School Meals Program (SMP) Analysis. As we sat facing ten 7th graders at Msiliembe B Primary School in a classroom that was still incomplete(bare cement brick, no window or door framing, partial roof, not painted) we asked them what they would choose to eat if they could eat anything in the world. The response: UGALI! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. 8216;in ...
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no matter where I go, here I am.: August 2010
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No matter where I go, here I am. Three months in Tabora, Tanzania-. Sunday, August 15, 2010. 8216;in our culture when you share a meal with someone it means that your togetherness is firm.’. Swahili Word of the Day: Nyamwezi. Tabora, a history. It will be sad to leave this place in a few hours but all in all, it’s been an amazing run. Thursday, August 12, 2010. MDP Project of the Day: School Meals Program (SMP) Analysis. Since then we have spent July running focus groups with the head teachers, school co...
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no matter where I go, here I am.: July 2010
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No matter where I go, here I am. Three months in Tabora, Tanzania-. Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Only the lazy get blisters". MDP Intervention of Last Week: Break Rocks with Wazungu Day. Pretty much as it sounds- we broke rocks and along the way I broke my hands- or atleast some skin on them and a few blood vessels. Ouch. At one point I thought I had crushed my pointer finger’s bones so I was pretty happy with a few still healing blisters/ open wounds. Tuesday, July 20, 2010. I never quite understood what a...
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no matter where I go, here I am.: May 2010
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No matter where I go, here I am. Three months in Tabora, Tanzania-. Sunday, May 30, 2010. Swahili Word of the Week: Tikiti-maji. It means watermelon. We were coming back from the market when our driver pulled over to say that there were really cheap and good tikitimaji. We looked around and didn’t see any shop or fruit stand when a guy with a tikitimaji cart rolled on passed the car. Delicious! Tabora town is where it is at. We eat a lot of fruit- it is fabulous. Saturday, May 29, 2010. Super excited to ...