Today we went into Kampala with a few partners to look for a few things that Britt and Zik thought would give us a good feel of the city. It was awesome and truly eye opening. I look forward to cool adventures such as this in the future.-Kaan… Read More
Mambo!All of us just returned from the most amazing dance experience! For 3 hours we watched and participated in traditional Ugandan dance and song! We ate a traditional Ugandan meal which watching men and women swirl in colors and dance to the beat of drums! It was such an incredible way to end our stay here in Kampala! We are so grateful for today and can’t wait to continue the… Read More
Right now my scavenger hunt team and I are sitting in an internet cafe, sweating, full of rice and maybe unfriendly chicken. Everyone here has been very helpful and smiling towards our strange questions and requests. “What is that fruit called?” – “One killogram.”We’ve been running and dodging flying motorcycles, while trying to keep our feet dry. We were surprised by the bustling locals in collared shirts and clean pants… Read More
Great first day in Africa. Spent most of the day safe and sound in the hostel. We got a chance to play pool, some card games and enjoy an African rain shower. Also we saw two monkeys who live outside the hostel! Can’t wait to get into Kampala.– Zach
Yesterday our plans to visit kampala were delayed because of unexpected rain fall. The rain here in Uganda is an intense.… Read More
Sorry folks,
Our AWESOME group of students did, in fact, update the blog today. Unfortunately, however, they didn’t realize they needed to click “publish post” in order to allow you to be able to read what they wrote. Since they didn’t know how to ensure the blog was published, you have yet to hear from them personally. Sorry about that.
Rest assured that we are all still safe and sound… Read More
The students will all be updating the blog tomorrow, but Britt and I just wanted to take a quick minute to let everyone know we’ve arrived safe and sound, and without incident, to our Backpackers hostel here in Kampala.
We are all in high spirits to be a part of such a great group, and psyched to have gotten the adventure underway.
We’re also pretty tired after so many hours… Read More
A middle-of-the-night text message has assured us that the whole team is now together and the Lizzie/Devon contingent successfully met up with the rest of the group. They are now en route to Entebbe to begin their adventure.… Read More
It’s official: 8/10 of the group is about to board their flight to Amsterdam, and they’ll meet up with Devon and Lizzie there. What a great, grounded, crew–if folks were nervous they hid it well!
Next time you hear from them they’ll be in Kampala, Uganda.
Until then, this is Carpe HQ signing off….
-Nannette… Read More
Habari!
Welcome to our East Africa blog. This blog will be our way to share our adventure over the next few months with everyone back home – please pass on this link to everyone you want to keep updated. After this first entry, we pass it over to you, and at least once a week a different student will get to upload an entry (and hopefully some fabulous photos as… Read More
The last three weeks of our program included a bit of adventure and a lot of relaxation. After we departed TAYODEA three members climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro while the rest of the group headed out to Zanzibar to swim with dolphins and enjoy the white sands and crayon blue water.
Climbing Kili was amazing for everyone – and we are so proud to report that all group members summated the 19336… Read More
The following is a post recently made to our FAQ page that we wanted to include to all of you who might be reading this blog.
Swine flu has recently been confirmed throughout Mexico and parts of the US. A few other countries have also reported possible infections. While we’re in touch with the CDC and monitoring all of the international news we can put our hands on, we also… Read More
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh….how to describe our last two weeks…?Well, to start off, the leader of the organization introduced the conference as a scam (Not too promising). The first few days were pretty shaky. Our room had cracked walls and maybe a few ghosts and Carrye’s bed was eternally wet, but it gradually started to become more comfortable. The town we were in is called Mlalo and is located in the mountains and… Read More
Jambo! Miriam here.Well first of all, it was nicer than I can express to escape into what felt like the lap of luxury for a few days. We had hot showers (usually) Home-style cooking, and real beds! It might as well have been on a completely different planet from the maasai village.
Pete O’niel is an exiled black panther from Kansas City. He is quite a character. He was very… Read More
The last week has been a trip. The Maasai live very differnet from us. Their weilth is determined by their herds. They have cows, sheep and goats, and everyday they walk their herd miles and miles to find water. Their diet doesnt require water, but because their animals need it, that is how they spend their day, walking. All they eat traditionally is meat, blood and milk. They live in… Read More
hey sally here!
we just finished our african safari. it was definetly a dream of all of ours and it was so awesome. our safari was guided by Maasai Wanderings, a safari group that also works with the maasai tribe (but that comes later.) we had 2 awesome guides and safari trucks that had pop-off roofs so we could stand up and check out the animals.
we saw everything! elephants,… Read More
hey hey hey Kim here.so after an amazing week at carols, we procceeded to go on our 2 day adventure to Rwanda. After about 10 hours ish of driving we finally made it to kibale the capital of rwanda.. accomodations were very luxurious to our standards..a hotel, with a queen sized bed, a nice balcony and even a TV!! The first night, all of us ladies took a taxi to… Read More
Greetings from Mwanza(rock city), Tanzania: Where it is socially exceptable to spit your food on the ground
We got quite the fill of kids during our week in Fort Portal. Our afternoons were spent at the rescue home with the kids: Playing basketball & soccer, Swinging on swings, and many many arts&crafts.; The kids were precious, all clinging on to their new found friends.Our evenings were spent back at the… Read More
We had a wonderful, and enlightening experience through JJ and his family. After hearing his influential words about three very mixed religions coming together and working together, we are ready for our next leg of the journey! We have learned that the African men can be very persistent, and traveling in an almost entire female group we get quite the laughs! With Muhammad hitting on Rose, and JB proposing to… Read More
Hello all! Emily here. We are now in Mbale, Uganda and are staying at an inter-faith coffee co-op called Mirembe Kawomera. We’ve been learning about how the coffee is grown and harvested and have gotten to take part in the entire process- picking the berries, pruning the trees, shelling the berries, etc. The farm is totally organic and the coffee is shade grown with many other plants, such as banana… Read More
Today we went whitewater rafting on the Nile and let’s just start by saying it was INTENSE. Jinja is famous for the grade 5 rapids pretty much all the way down the strip of river we rafted. The 7 of us girls were in one boat and Marshall went in another boat full of guys. We are VERY proud to say that the girls boat flipped only one time! We… Read More
