Karibu – Zoe, Taylor, Rebecca, Charlotte, Will, Izzy, Alexa, Chris, Victoria, and Jessica!
Welcome! This is the blog through which you’ll be sharing your adventures with friends and family from across the globe. It will be a place to post photos, tell stories and store memories as a group. And it will become a place where your loved ones will come to find out where in the heck your adventurous… Read More
What do goodbyes look like for people who have supported each other through changes, losses, wins, beginnings and firsts? For us it was backbreaking hugs, watering eyes, last words of adoration, and then at the end just a small wave and a, “Bye!” As if we were hanging up the phone or moving forward in the grocer line.
Let me rewind, Dan went scuba diving. Dan learned how to swim… Read More
Perfectly white sand, crystal clear water, tropical warm breezes, and fresh delicious coconuts. Not exactly the Thanksgiving we imagined but it’ll do. Karibu Zanzibar! Yesterday we arrived in Stonetown after spending 4 days,3 nights at the rasta relaxing Dhow Beach Village on Jambiani beach. We spent those 4 days playing beach vollyball, getting our tans on and in pure amazment of the mile long stretch of only knee deep translucent… Read More
Hello to all,We finished part of a week with homestays, which did not end on the best note ever but we got through it as a group and have moved on from it. After that we headed back to pete oneals, which is starting to become more of a second home than anything else. Pete oneals hospitality towards us is something we all greatly appreciate. While we were with pete… Read More
Where to begin? Some in the group said that the past couple weeks changed their lives. Some said it was the best week of their lives. Now I must endeavor to describe the group experience.
The safari: Led by our beloved Godwin and Riche we poked our heads out of two Toyota Land Rovers and drove through The Terengerri National Park and Ngoroagora Crater. Thousand year old Boabob Trees shaded… Read More
Habari,
After an 8 hour, bumpy, dirty, and significantly awkward bus ride from Benako, we have finally reached Tanzania’s second largest city – Mwanza! It is absolutely gorgeous; we are surrounded by beautiful views of Lake Victoria and are preparing/stocking up for the next 3 weeks of exciting activities! We leave for our Safari in just a few days; everyone is EXTREMELY excited! Stay tuned for updates on all the… Read More
Ian and I (Kathryn) are traipsing around the beautiful city of Mwanza, and enjoying every boiling-hot second of it! We are practicing our Kiswahili with the locals, purchasing congas (sp?), mailing post-cards (expect one in the mail family!) and being led around by yet another Moses. Our hunt for lunch is about to draw us back into the heat!
-Ian and Kathryn… Read More
Walking around the city today has proved easier then my initial attempt in Kampala. Love the city of Mwanza and love Tanzania from what I’ve seen of it. Can’t wait for the Safari and the Masai visit.
Sincerely,Kaan (With Lizzie next to me)… Read More
Dearest beloved readers,
We are breaking a few social rules and asked a few favors of the locals for our endeavor. For instance we are using a residents only computer in a very cosmo hotel, and asked the kind receptionist if we could use her celly.
Otherwise we love it here, it’s a little hot but it’s absolutely beautiful. Huge rocks and a lake-side own enraptured us all at the… Read More
Today we were spit in teams of two(Guy and Gal) to explore Mwanza,Tanzania.Devon and I are at an internet cafe which is extremely slow,but no worries(acuta matata)we’ve having lots of fun exploring.
P.S We’re Half way done with our trip!crazy huh! Anyway Toodles
Simply Dan… Read More
A haiku written in detication to my current situation:
my back is sweatythis internet is too slowdrip… drip… down my back.
paz & amordev
(p.s. lovin’ Tanzania, epitome of all that’s beautiful in East Africa)… Read More
Woooh!
It’s been quite an amazing disasters couple of days. As it being our first time planning free travel we’ve learned many valuable lessons. The most important being:
1-It’s not as easy as it sounds
2-Because of number 1 the earlier you plan the better.
3-Little to nothing (more of the latter) works out as planned despite how hard you’ve worked, so roll, roll, and keep on rolling with the… Read More
So after we spent a wonderful week working with Youth Encourage Services it was time to say our goodbyes. Jacob(volunteer) luckily volunteered to drive us to our next destination Lake Nkaruba which is only45 minutes away from Fort Portal.When we arrived the first thing everyone notice were the beautiful black and white colobus monkeys and the less attractive vervet monkeys.In the days to follow we practiced yoga daily with our… Read More
Hello from Rwanda! We are currently living the luxurious albeit expensive life in Kigali, but you’ll have to wait for a future blog post to hear more about that. I am here to catch you all up on what we’ve been doing on the first half of our free travel (the beginning of this past week). After our rejuvenating retreat at Lake Nkuruba, we did a 180-degree turn away from… Read More
So as the trip reaches its 3 week mark we are in Fort Portal, Uganda volunteering our time to an NGO. This NGO, Youth Encouragement Services, works with children who are HIV / AIDS positive or have lost all family to the disease. Talking to Carrol (the founder of the organization) truly showed us what situations this children were in before they were helped. Some of the kids were living… Read More
So we’re back in Jinja for the night after spending an AMAZING week working with the Mirembe (meaning peace) Kawomera Coffee Co-op in a small village just outside of Mbale. Mirembe in unique in the way that in combines the three major faiths, Islam, Judaism and Christianity, to promote a message of peace between faiths and throughout the world. We lived with the founder of the Co Op, JJ Keki,… Read More
Hey, this is Zach.
Alright so the last few days in Africa have been long, tiring and paintfilled but none the less a blast. We just finished up painting the classrooms with Soft Power in Bubugo and are now chilling at the NRE hostel just outside of Jinja. Working at Bubugo was challenging but incredibly rewarding and fun. In the mornings we split up into two crews. The first (Britt,… Read More
Hello!…Kirsten here:I can’t believe we have been in East Africa for less than a week; we have done so many exciting things and our jamii is bonding better than ever! On Sunday, we had our first day of adventure; a scavenger hut into Kampala. To our surprise, Britt and Zik sent us off into the busy city ALONE! But with some helpful advice and tips from our worldly-experienced leaders, we… Read More
Hello everyone!We just wanted to let you know that we arrived to work with Soft Power Education, the first school we’re working with. Tonight we’ll be settling in, getting ready to start our Swahili classes in the morning and paint one of the new buildings for the school. We had an incredible day rafting the White Nile yesterday. We’ll let the students fill you in on the details in a… Read More
