How to celebrate Thanksgiving in Tanzania!
Feeling Salty
Was it pizza? Probably not...
New region, who dis?
What am I up to? Oh you know. I am just living life. Getting used to a new job, putting together my new house, figuring out how to carry a bucket on my head when I am getting water from the well. I have been coking on a tiny charcoal stove top, speaking a new …
I swear, I’m a PCV
It has officially happened. I am now a sworn in Peace Corps Volunteer. It has finally happened. After 10 long weeks of training here in the Tanga region, I am off to a whole new part of the country! This all happened several weeks ago. Almost 6 full weeks I believe which is almost as …
10 things they don’t tell you about Pre Service Training
I am so close to being done with Pre Service Training. I have made it to week 9 of training and a long few weeks it has been. A real roller coaster of the last few months. I have traveled across Tanzania, met hundreds- I kid you not, hundreds- of people of so many walks …
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Insight on my new site
I feel like I ended my last post with some level of anxiety and negativity. With good reason. It is a tumultuous time of new and frightening experiences that are testing me everyday. You just need to take the challenges one by one and solve each problem as it comes. That being said, I will …
Less access to internet, but plenty more to come!
Hey all! I am currently in my site! Yay! I have about 4 or 5 blog posts that I wrote during PST (pre-service training) that I haven’t gotten the chance to post because the last week and a half was hectic. It was filled with plenty of last minute time with friends, and tons of …
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The tank is clean
I woke up on Friday morning after a restful two and a half hours of sleep knowing that today was the day. It was the first day that I would know what I would be doing for the next two years and where I would be going. They have kept us in the dark for …
That intern-ship has sailed
I just spent the last several weeks teaching. In Tanzania. That is certainly not a sentence that I thought I would ever say. Today was my last day teaching during my internship and it really felt like it flew by in the blink of an eye. I did not get through as much material as …
Why am I here?
Here is a question I bet you have wondered about me. Why oh why would you want to join the Peace Corps? Honestly, I don’t really have an answer… I really did not think that I would ever get to the point of being in another country and actually doing this as a job for …
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