Midpoint

The past four weeks have flown by and yet we've done so much...taken a health policy class on nutritional and general development issues in a country where the subject is relevant right outside your door, learning to live in another family's home, living in an African country as a first generation Ethiopian and yet distinctly an American, a "mzungu", connecting to all the crazy events happening in the world (Ahmadinejad got re-elected-- what?!) through Aljazeera which seems to be the only newstation we watch in my house...and all in beautiful Moshi-town.

We've reached the midpoint in our summer program in Tanzania. Our class is wrapping up this coming Wednesday and we start our internships on Monday. I'll be working at the Women's Economic and Education Centre (WEECE) very close to my home. It's not directly health-related but I'm still looking forward to learning about how their micro-finance programs affect the local community.

www.weece.org/

I'll try to synthesize my thoughts/events from the past few weeks soon and post for ya'll :)

Much love from Moshi, Tzed.

The pretty gardens right outside our classroom...With the Coca-Cola owned water company Kilimanjaro!

My first time on a safari...felt like a Wild Thornberry. Ha ha...It made me so proud to have my roots in this continent...the trip was full of incredibly beautiful landscapes. Will post more pictures soon.





Have you ever ridden in a open-roofed safari van? Bumpy roads + roofless car with space on the back to sit outside + giraffes, zebra and wildebeest chillin in the expanse of fields around you = amazing safari. We were were sticking our heads out the roof or riding out on the roof 90% of the time-- so much fun, like a mini-roller coaster/outdoor zoo :)

Coca-Cola is invasive and omnipresent. The plastic tables and chairs at cafes, the signs on all the small roadside stores, the billboards, the local water bottling company-- All Coca-Cola owned!