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(Edited to say that I wrote this last Friday, but due to circumstances like no electricity (lol), I didn’t get it posted until this week so not July 4th but the weekend before that.) Last weekend I had the opportunity and the privilege to attend a circumcision “after party”. For those unfamiliar with the Maasai…
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Jambo! Greetings from Tanzania again! Pole sana (so sorry) that I have been MIA for a while. Life in America got to be very hectic and busy. I started a master’s program in January and two “part-time” jobs that seemed to take up a LOT of my time, so it’s good to be back on…
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Happy New Year to everyone in Maasai land, the blogging world, and beyond! This will be a quick little post just to stay on your radar. The babies at Namayana Nursery School started their new school year on January 13th, so I will post a few pictures for you to enjoy. The newest students still…
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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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