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Well, back in Dodoland again… This time under the auspices of the WFP+PC. Hopefully will be doing P4P stuff, although the rest of my ‘team’ is in Dar. More later. Still no house. Ugh.
April 2011 Well, they moved my site. In my funk I finally called up my apcd to complain about the teachers’ college schedule, you know, how there really isn’t any teaching to be done most of the year because the students tend to be MIA? Anyway, I thought it’d be a good idea to let [...]
Well, they moved my site. In my funk I finally called up my apcd to complain about the teachers’ college schedule, you know, how there really isn’t any teaching to be done most of the year because the students tend to be MIA? Anyway, I thought it’d be a good idea to let PC know [...]
(It means, “I’m still here”… sort of) So here’s the rest of the entries to catch you up to the present, in a manner of speaking. In another manner of speaking, the present is the hare the tortoise can never catch up to. Pause. English English speakers pronounce tortoise oddly. Highlights of January: New Years [...]
Somewhat recently, airtel acquired zain’s africa operations… And more recently has been changing settings to reflect the corporate-side changes. For the end user, this has meant some sporadic disruptions of services, including internet, and mysteriously disappearing voucher. Well, can’t do much about the latter, but the former… well I guess we can’t do much about [...]
Well, time for some blog posts. I realise I haven’t had any post since the one about Thanksgiving, and that was back in November… It’s now the end of February. Not much has really changed since then, but since there have been people complaining about my lack of updating (including my mother), here goes. December [...]
Now that I’ve been at site for almost a year, I’ve finally figured out what the school calendar looks like roughly. Yes, the only way I figured it out was to live it. Maybe it’s just my school, but we’re really disorganised and uncommitted to keeping a real schedule. Makes scheme of work kind of [...]
“Ba de ya – say do you remember Ba de ya – dancing in September Ba de ya – golden dreams were shiny days” Well unfortunately my September wasn’t as joyous as Earth Wind and Fire’s. Week 0: Found out Karl, room mate from sophomore year in college, passed away after drowning in a lake [...]
There’s an exciting crash course being done by the WaKute group next week in Iringa/Kleruu TC. While I was invited to attend, unfortunately due to travel restrictions because of the upcoming elections, I am unable to go. I wonder what they’ll cover, and how in-depth they plan on going. Past courses were only conducted at [...]
Call to service inspired many Peace Corps volunteers – USATODAY.com The education project review for Peace Corps Tanzania was completed a few months ago and I was reminded of it when I saw this news article. The condensed version of the most personally salient point: …Sustainability, especially in ICT education remains a big challenge. Sustainability. [...]
This is gonna be short, since I’m pushing close to 10pm and I’m hungry/tired… But fret not, I’ll upload a post soon on September (and August?). Also, I’ve updated the Tz Phone Tricks page to reflect the new Zain rates. (8 Tsh/MB for some of the plans! That’s less than a penny!!) [whine]Wordpress.com handles html [...]
Well, I really can’t remember what happened in August, except that vacation was over and I started teaching. Yes, that’s right, teaching. Me. Teach. Woah. I was given 16 periods a week (8 double periods), with the first year diploma students. Poa! My counterpart Allan left for Australia a week after the term began, and [...]
It’s been a year and a day since I arrived in Tanzania. A lot has changed since then, especially myself. With only 1* year left of peace corps service, this might as well be my personal new years day, and I might as well set forth some new years resolutions… I’m going to try to [...]
I’m spending more time on buses than at the ttc–went to Kondoa for a “critical” emergency server reformat/reinstall/repair last week, just got back on Saturday. Tomorrow it’s ToT and after that is VAC. Eeesh, I miss sleeping in my own bed! wrote a mostly operable script at work to make unlock codes for modems, eventually [...]
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When PSDN needs PSDN? Grief: That crushing, heavy pain deep in the chest – check The aching lump in the very back of our throat – check The burned-out eyes and headaches from crying – bado kidogo The mood swings, the numbness – check The absolute intensity of feelings and emotions – check Optimistic view/silver [...]
Eventually I’ll get caught up to the present, but for now, more remininscing of the past. July started with mostly a blast. It saw the end of the community theatre training, followed by a mad dash to Dar. I was supposed to get a lifti with Peace Corps to Dar from Iringa, which would’ve been [...]
While I was updating the Tz Phone tricks page, it occurred to me that I ought to add information on dongles. Since that’s not immediately related to phones though, here’s a post about unlocking dongles instead. I get quite a few questions on this topic, and on average unlock at least a couple dongles per [...]
Well, it’s been a while since I last posted. The real irony about blogging, for me at least, is that it’s a great activity to pass the time (ie, when there’s not much going on) but when I’m busy it’s one of the first activities that gets the axe. The irony lies in the fact [...]
Well, I didn’t go to Kilimanjaro. Instead, I went the opposite direction and spent a few weeks in Mbeya, in the southern highlands of Tanzania, on a work related trip to meet with some system administrators at Mbeya Institute of Science and Technology, and a lecturer at Mzumbe University-Mbeya Campus. In order to get there, [...]
Well it’s been a while since my last blog post… Almost 2 months? So lets just hit the highlights: I spent the beginning of April winding my way back to site after having spent the end of March in Manyara fixing up computers and setting up labs at a couple secondary schools. The second week [...]
First half of March:
Had an emotional first couple of weeks in March (beware the ides?), some reminiscing and relationship woes. But can’t change anything so why spend energy on it. Boring at site, no classes going on, and all my coworkers are away at BTP assessment (where they go assess the student teachers who are [...]
My mailing address is
Yue Ke, Peace Corps Volunteer (or you can try Mwalimu Yue Ke)
PO Box 34
Mpwapwa, Dodoma
Tanzania
Some people have asked about packages… here’s some ideas for what to include if you’re feeling like prepping one:
Saran wrap
Ziploc bags
Any American/Chinese spice mixes
Cake mix (yes I bake…)
Powdered drink mix (gatorade, iced tea, kool-aid, etc)
Hard candies (life savers, [...]
This post has nothing to do with tanzania. Sorry if you were led here under that assumption. Just some late night lucubrations of mine, and the results from omphaloskepsis sessions earlier in the day.
Today was pi day. Or, as my friend Patty says, at 1:59 it was pi day. 3.14159! Although my favourite real number [...]
March 5, 2008.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
A nice, crisp and sunny day with wispy clouds lazily floating across a Carolina blue sky being gently pushed by slight breezes.
All in all, a beautiful day, except that it was also the day our campus community learned of the murder of our student body president.
Last year [...]
Today I spent almost 16 hours at the ICT. The aggregate of todays accomplishments are as follows:
Fixed another pcv’s computer over the phone
Downloaded some utilities for the manyara pc labs I hope to setup later this month
Made copies of some forms for pc
Set up 12 courses on moodle
For spending more than half the entire day [...]
This took a whopping 3 hrs to type . Pardon the spelling errors.
It has been a long time since my last update, and many things have happened; I don’t even know where to begin. If you’ve ever had the fortune to suffer through IB World History, you might remember a ghastly assignment called the Internal [...]
Eh let’s see if I can post this file… Hopefully ill eve get the right version uploaded
This is mostly thads work built on the work of some mzungu in kenya. Ill yet to update more info as time goes by w your input from comments…
This used to be colour coded to an extent, but [...]
Been a few weeks since I wrote on here, but not too much to post since, with exception of this week, its been the same old same old.
So events this week worth noting:
Monday while invigilating an exam I became so dehydrated that I passed out. Got sent home after my counterparts forced me to eat [...]
Apparently PeaceCorpsJournals has picked up my blog. Meh, so much for much sought-after anonymity on the internet.
http://www.peacecorpsjournals.com/?showcountry,tz@blog
^read that for people who are more dedicated to updating their blogs
Tagged: Blogging, Peace Corps
Saturday 26 December 2009
A day spent on the bus, left at 1030 am and arrived around 4pm in Dodoma City. Left with Paul and Keith, and spent night in Dodoma at the CCT sharing a room with them. At 8k a pop it’s not too bad. Poor Paul, it’s his birthday. We went to a [...]
Holy cow Blog entries batman! Seriously though, I need to start thinking of cooler entry titles, else they’ll begin to be reminiscent of Gavin’s fb picture album titles. And contrary to popular belief my titles are the way they are bc I’m not creative, not b/c I’m counting down the weeks….
Saturday 19 December
-Finalised my [...]
Satuday 12 December 2009
-Started migrating my website from unc’s webspace onto google sites. It’s slow work doing it on a blackberry. Checked up on my wine, it’s smelling like its fermenting, which is good. Had to stir it up some to make sure the sugar was still dissolved. It’s 20L bucket filled almost to the [...]
Saturday 5 December 2009
-It rained today. That is good. I think. The upload speed at TTC is only 5kb, which means these blog posts are necessarily short so that they do not time out when I try to upload. Ugh. Even my phone is faster, TTC: 300kb down and 5kb up, versus Zain’s BIS: 400kb [...]
Saturday 28 November 2009
-spent time at ttc, learning the ropes and stuff, went to town for groceries, practiced some Kis with locals…
Sunday 29 November 2009
-Ducked out of spending time at the TTC, instead went to town to hang out in the soko with people. Met a mango seller named Ndanda Kosovo… Interesting name, nice guy, [...]
There are 5 weeks of Blog entries of varying length/quality on my laptop. Currently looking for a way to upload bc my internet connection at ttc is crap. 5kb up is dreadfully slow
You’ve probably noticed, I haven’t been updating this much…Reason threefold:
1) Moving to blogger
2) Hakuna umeme (power has been out a lot, and when it is on, the network’s too slow to load wordpress)
3) Not had much time for updates
So you’re probably wondering why I’m moving to blogger… So am I.
Actually, it’s got better integration with [...]
I’ve been really busy at the the ttc, and some people have asked why. So here follows my todo list, hopefully being done by the start of classes in mid January.
Todo List at TTC:
1. Learn basic admin stuff under unix/solaris with test server *move server to other [...]
Friday 27 November 2009
There is a huge scorpion in my house. I chose not to fuck with it. There are flies and mosquitos in here too. Maybe the wildlife will kill each other.
Decided to do a list of things I do every day/notable events during the course of a day and just upload that once [...]
Well, now that there’s electricity (umeme) I can finally see. And turn on the computer. And get online. Hurray! However I am also getting used to hearing “Hakuna Umeme” every time I go home, which basically means, the power’s out. It’s almost taken the status of a greeting, which is a big deal over here [...]
I’ll write a full length post once I get a chance, honest… Too bad that might not be until December, the way training is.
So, updates since my last post:
Got the results of my OPI (oral proficiency interview), got intermediate-mid, which was decent, means that my kiswahili is passable enough to “survive” here. What killed me [...]
Well since its been almost two weeks since my last post, here’s a quick list of things that have happened since, in a mostly chronological order.
Updated my bb os, only took me 3 hours to do due to the slow adsl speed here. I think this entire region or at least district is sharing [...]
After an extremely long day at CCT I finally caved in to my inner alcoholic and went to a local bar, dragonaires, for a drink. As usual I ordered a gin on the rocks, my default drink of choice when a place doesn’t have tonic water. In retrospect the ice was probably a bad call, [...]
Well sorry for the second post I’m just testing the bb client out.
First impressions:
+i can upload photos. This is huge, especially if I don’t get tethering to work. Even if I do get tethering to work the ability to upload my photos of tanzania through my phone is still a major plus as I’m not [...]
Well, as previously noted, I got suckered into an unlimitedinternet plan on my blackberry. Being the IT person I am, I immediately tried to take advantage of Zain by tethering my blackberry as a modem to my laptop. I initially did this with cingular in the US, so I know it works. Cingular also got [...]
Well its finally happened, the dreaded out of order posting feared by all bloggers around the world. Basically I have an awesome post typed up on my laptop but because I am mvivu (lazy) I haven’t transferred it over to a media that can connect to the internet. However I’m not too lazy to post [...]
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