Today was my first full day in Tanzania and the first time I really saw anything in the day light. You have to remember that it is winter here so daylight hours are limited. We started our day around 7 for breakfast. On our schedules it said that breakfast was from 7-8:15, so naturally my roommate and I showed up right at 7 only to find that no one was at breakfast. It was another half an hour or so before anyone showed up—life is so relaxed here and nothing [...]

After over 16 hours of airtime, I have finally made it to Tanzania!  I am so excited to spend the next 6 weeks here. For the next 3 nights we will be staying at our school, MS-TCDC for orientation. When we arrived in Tanzania we boarded off of the plane down stairs right onto the runway (like you see in the movies). We then drove 30 minutes to MS-TCDC.  I didn’t get to see much of the school tonight because it was dark by the time we got here. We had [...]

So I’ve finally been able to write in my blog (Google cancelled my account because apparently trying to access my account in Tanzania is suspicious). Today is my second full day at MS-TCDC that is the college where we will be taking classes. The flights to Tanzania were pretty brutal, but they went by faster than I thought. We arrived in Tanzania at 8:30 p.m. their time and were driven to the college by our coordinator Steven Ndosi. On Monday we had our first day of orientation where we heard [...]