Mzungu Maasai
Adventures of a Middle-aged White Woman in Tanzania
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Pole sana that I haven’t updated in over two weeks! Life got a little hectic there the last two weeks while I was still in Tanzania. We had a family burial to attend, a school celebration to plan and host, school supplies to buy for the next school year starting in January, and my apartment…
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This past weekend. was a really nice weekend. My “twin”, Benjamin, came to visit me. I have been here since September, and this is the first chance we’ve had to get together. Clearly, we aren’t “twins”, ha ha ha, but we call each other that because we were both born in the same year (although…
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This week I really wasn’t sure what I was going to write about. I have been confined mostly to this apartment complex for most of the past two weeks due to the local “situation” and just logistics. While I am here, I am relying on the kindness of friends to get me from Point A…
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Well! What a year last week was!! Literally about ten minutes after publishing last week’s blog, the internet was shut off for the entire country. The government was holding national elections and wanted to “preserve the integrity” of them. Um…sure. That’s what we will call it. I’m not gonna post what was really going on,…
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Today I am going to tell you about market days here in Tanzania. All of the villages have their own designated market day. Nanja’s is Monday. So, every Monday when I am traveling to Losi to see the kids, I see people heading to Nanja market to buy and sell. It’s a pretty big market…
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As I mentioned in my first post, I am here because I started a nursery school almost five years ago in a little village called Losimingiori which is named for the mountain nearby. Side note: there are mountains all over Tanzania which is definitely not the first thing you think about when you think of…
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Today I want to talk about some of the interesting things that I see on an almost daily basis. An interesting fact about Tanzania is that each village has their own market day of the week. The town where I live, Kisongo, also has stalls set up every day along the main road, but their…
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Okay, don’t laugh, but time really seems slower here. I don’t know if it is because I am seven or eight hours ahead of my people in America, but I feel like I am so much more productive over here. A typical day may consist of me waking up around 7:00 am, turning on the…
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As I’m writing this, I am sitting at a cafe in Arusha where Langoi has parked me while he gets something done to his car. We came to Arusha today to run some errands and get some work done on his car. I wish I could express how different it is, and yet, how similar…
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