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Clubs Labs Midterms.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:29:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Katie In Tanzania)
So every Monday night we have "subject clubs" at my school. During the subject clubs students ask other students questions and try to solve problems. I switch up between going to the Math club and th ...
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Random

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:17:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
Here again is my favorite post... RANDOM!Cool shot at Cessie's village...Nothing says "Home" like a big leg o' meat hangin' in the window...Found some guy with a McChord AFB shirt. How random!?Allen.. ...
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Word of the Day

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:28:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
MwafakaIt means "perfect " in Swahili. If you don't get why I love it try and say it a couple times with a ghetto accent and you'll realize why its one of my favorite words to say.Cheers Jayce
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Swine and Dine 'Em!

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:26:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
We had to run to Dodoma for a swine flu shot. Here are just 2 pics...Me and some of my Singida ladies...They found headbands with tiny sparkley hats on them. These damn hats were the bane of my existance...Cheers Jayce
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Animal Planet

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:18:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
Here are some pics of random animals that have been in our lives the past couple months... Singida is famous for their Donkeys. I've heard they're very tastey as well...Hanging out with some of the pu ...
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PEPFAR

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:04:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
So we headed to the capital city of Dodoma for a PEPFAR training workshop. Here are some pics of the fun festivities...
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Aren't my friends' kids adoooooorable?

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:48:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Tait's Tanzania Journal)
Hallie and Steve's new babe Bradley***Gals and Logan's new toto Reid a.k.a. RAW (waiting on picture)***Hil and Croft's new babe Elsa a.ka. sugarlips (waiting on picture)
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Seven Things: I'm putting in my garden

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:43:00 +0800

(Tanzania / macnamania)
This past week I started my first seedlings of the season. Every day that a little more of our blanket of snow melts I get more excited about what the garden will hold this year.7. Bachelor's Bu ...
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Untitled

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:35:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Springsteen Safari)
So the past month has been a real transitional period for me. In the space of 4 weeks 2 of my best girl friends have left and they have been really hard to replace. In the next week 1 more of my good ...
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Lewis Carroll comes to Me in Dreams and ...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:45:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Bona Fide TZ Maggie May)
“I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date! No time to say ‘Hello!’ ‘Goodbye!’ I’m late! I’m late! I’m late!”…Or so I would be if my name was White Rabbit and I ran around ...
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this ain't what i signed up for...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:42:00 +0800

(Tanzania / A Fresh Start)
People have many reasons for joining the Peace Corps; the international experience the adventure maybe to learn some skills they'd like to transfer to their lives back in the US. Along with these t ...
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this ain't what i signed up for...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:42:00 +0800

Grawnola and Cinnamon-Banana Almond Milk ...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:28:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Habari Gani? (What's the news?))
Today I’m posting one of my favorite raw recipes: “grawnola.” I never eat granola because it usually has gluten in it. And I’ve been drinking smoothies for breakfast for so long I hadn’t re ...
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Technical Practical and Mechanical Dif ...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:30:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Tanzania Tales)
Writing this I realize it has been a very long time since my last blogs and you the viewer are naturally disappointed. I am very sorry to disappoint you this has been a very busy and LONG rainy sea ...
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The Many Ways to Wear a Khanga

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:26:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Tanzania Tales)
When I was growing up one of my favorite things to do was quilt with my Grandmother. My Grandmother’s sewing room was one of the brightest most beautiful rooms – filled with every color of fabri ...
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More development work...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Leroy's Art Blog)
There is no class with Osborne next week (spring break - already!) so I've brought my paintings home to continue working on them. I'm wondering whether it is useful to continue posting on how the ...
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Raw chocolate-banana cream pie and beaut ...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:14:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Habari Gani? (What's the news?))
Today’s recipe is raw chocolate-banana cream pie with coconut-pecan crust. I made this a few weeks ago from a recipe in Better Nutrition magazine the free magazine they give you at Natural Way in ...
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“Seeking to be great but always rememb ...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:32:11 +0800

(Tanzania / Bakadeshi's Blog)
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 beautifu ...
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Kilimanjaro 5 km race for PHS Running Club

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:25:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Tait's Tanzania Journal)
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"I have got to get someone to look ...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:38:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Brie in Tanzania)
RecentlyAhh fungus on my arms a constant sore throat ringworm fleas... yep you guessed it... I am spending a lot of time with Image Village's children. And believe me there is no shortage of them ...
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You've got ducks!

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:37:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Allison in Africa)
Yes ducks. My neighbor's duck had about 15 babies and they were cute and funny baby animals. I'd been telling them for weeks that I was going to buy their ducks and I finally pulled together the ...
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Babies showers and greens

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:27:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Habari Gani? (What's the news?))
Trying to get better about posting. I've got some O photos from the last two months and I thought I'd start sharing some gluten-free vegan and raw recipes. I've slowly gone vegan over the last 6 mo ...
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the value of a day’s work…

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:17:30 +0800

(Tanzania / Bakadeshi's Blog)
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 ...
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Hitting the Flow

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:45:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Blogi ya Tanzania)
I have come to realize that it takes a little to hit your flow at my school that was one and a half months. But I think I might finally be getting the hang of teaching. The students aren't even all ...
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Hot puddles and Bat Caves

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:49:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Katie In Tanzania)
Last weekend I met up with some other volunteers in Mbeya to start planning a girl's leadership conference that we'll be holding in May (exciting isn't it?) Anyways as part of the weekend we planne ...
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Moving right along...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:29:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Leroy's Art Blog)
So how was that? You know when to stop painting when it will hurt the painting if you do anything more? Well sometimes that means you will go too far and then have to erase or somehow rec ...
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Unafikirije?

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:41:40 +0800

(Tanzania / Kipilefti)
When I was home one question I got from just about everyone was “so do you think in Swahili now?” It seems pretty basic but it really got me thinking because I don’t think in any ...
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The old men aren't the only ones buzzin ...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:03:00 +0800

(Tanzania / A is for Adult. Chapter 2: Peace Corps Tanzania)
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Haina radi

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:47:24 +0800

(Tanzania / Kipilefti)
There was another storm tonight over Lake Nyasa (do you all call it Lake Malawi? I can’t remember). I could see the lightning flashing from my bedroom window lower than the last storm half-hid ...
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second half of Feb

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:37:05 +0800

(Tanzania / Bakadeshi's Blog)
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 ev ...
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Music Festival 2010

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:53:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
The reason we went to Zanzibar was to catch the international music festival called Sauti za Busara or Sounds of Wisdom.The concert was held in an old castle a ridiculously sick venue. I would stron ...
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Raising the Zanzibar

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:32:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
So we had an amazing opportunity to check out the sick island of Zanzibar just off the coast of TZ. We went to a great music festival (more pics to come) and had a great time chillin' on the beach a ...
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Mlendin' a Hand

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:09:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
While in Cess' village we got a chance to cook everyone's favorite TZ dish Mlenda. Its basically a random smattering of green plants boiled together until you get the consistancy (and taste) of snot. ...
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Mwamringa 'round the Rosie

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:56:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
So next stop was my village. Just outside about 45 minutes from my house are these gigantic rock formations. Just huge scattered boulder piles everywhere. We went to the best one called Mwamringa.M ...
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THE GOAT!!!!!!

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:30:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
So here are some pics of our wonderful goat feast. Since I killed the chickens at Thanksgiving it was Cessie's turn to take a stab at things. She did an awesome job...Oh and did I mention that Connor ...
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Ihanja Visit: Part Deux

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:06:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
So we met up with a guy named Conner who was backpacking through TZ. We told him that if he wanted a real African experience then he should come visit our villages. We had a blast we slaughtered a go ...
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New Years 2010

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:15:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Don't TANZ Me Bro!)
So we had an amazing new years. We were able to head to Dar Es Salaam for a couple days and have a great getaway. We met an ex-pat named Mark who hooked us up! He got us into the Dar Es Salaam Yacht C ...
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My Skin Might Be White But Obama Still ...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:22:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Brie in Tanzania)
“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.” –Albert EinsteinFebruary 17 2010My primary school has asked me to teach five days a week there this year. The dispensary wants me t ...
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Death Lives in Africa

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:18:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Brie in Tanzania)
Watching Kimulimuli attempt to die is one of the hardest moments of my time so far in Tanzania. When he came home it only took me about a day to realize that he had ticks all over his body (13 in to ...
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Wengine wanasinzia

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:12:54 +0800

(Tanzania / Kipilefti)
Bret said the rain started at 4 A.M. It was still raining hard–but not pouring–when I woke up at 4.30. The car was supposed to leave at 5 so we were out before 5 waiting along the road in the shelter of the post office. And wait we did. We waited like champs and waited [...]
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nitamaliza

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:24:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Neets' Tanzanian Journal)
We already picked our dates to leave TZ. I am gone from site Oct 28th. It's going to be sad to leave here...can't believe we are already thinking about that as it seems I just got here. Only 8 months to go...
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Showering in the rain

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:01:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Taking off in Tanzania)
I had a full week of teaching this past week that was probably my bestweek of teaching yet though thats not saying a ton. It was also thefirst week that i taught my full load of courses now that form ...
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Warm Heart Warm Toes

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:40:00 +0800

(Tanzania / macnamania)
Dear Boyfriend I broke them in for you.Happy Birthday!
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things to come

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:10:00 +0800

(Tanzania / A Fresh Start)
I think this may be the longest interval between entries since I've gotten here. My apologies to those of you in America that have been on house arrest the past few weeks because of Snowmageddon you' ...
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things to come

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:10:00 +0800

The Moment You Have All Been Waiting For...

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:59:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Katie In Tanzania)
PICTURES:Go here:http://www.facebook.com/alb um.php?aid=2389169&id=9119874&l= 41e70cadefI hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them. Actually I did not take a lot of them. I have ...
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Mid-winter Break!

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:37:00 +0800

(Tanzania / amber in ... the bronx)
What Amber does with a week off of school (besides hours of grading and lesson planning): Walk the Bronx River co-produce a 3 minute community inquiry documentary about NYC subway behavior (yes inter ...
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Whats goin on here?!

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:12:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Jessie ventures to Africa!)
Almost 2 months since my last blog…I can’t believe how fast the time is going! It is out of control!-Anyhow a lot has happened but it is really all a blur since it has been so long. As always ...
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Progress

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:38:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Leroy's Art Blog)
Today I worked on the figure - modified the head added shadow on the neck and generally cut 'way back on the greenish tint of the body (although that probably doesn't show in these images). The ...
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The Top 10 People Living in Ikuna Villag ...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:04:00 +0800

(Tanzania / Bona Fide TZ Maggie May)
Instead of writing about myself and my adventures I have decided to write about my 12 favorite people in Ikuna- their stories and why I think they are amazing. 10: Onesmo Mwenda: This man is a GEM!! ...
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