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My Blue Sweater Moment and Yours
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 25 December 2009
by Jennifer Gong, KF9 Tanzania The Blue Sweater is a book that recounts the experiences of Jacqueline Novogratz, social venturer and founder of the Acumen Fund. The book contains a string of stories, but the most poignant is the tale behind the title of the book. When she was young, her uncle gave her a blue sweater, [...]
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Traveling Off the Beaten Path/ Watching my bank account bleed dry
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 18 December 2009
I have to confess that I really haven’t really traveled off the beaten path before I began this yearlong adventure. When I was living in England I was able to travel a bit through Europe, but I never considered those trips the sort that required any real forethought—planning in advance consisted of finding my passport [...]
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9 Weeks Through Africa/ The trip of a lifetime? Hope so.
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 15 December 2009
On January 17th, 2010, after spending 3 weeks in Uganda, I get picked up in Nairobi, Kenya, for a 6-week overland trip through Southern Africa—from Kenya, we drive down to Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and finish the journey in Cape Town, South Africa. Epic! I always fancied the idea of traveling extensively through Africa, [...]
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I think I might love you
Blog: Where the road goes - 27 November 2009
It was a gentle sort of love affair. Not the wild, passionate, love-at-first-sight sort of thing. More like that feeling that gently creeps up on you when you discover something underneath a friendship, usually far too late to do anything about it. But I digress. These stories have to start at the point where we [...]
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Parting Underneath the Flame Trees
Blog: Where the road goes - 26 November 2009
The flame trees outside the Dar es Salaam train station are some of the most beautiful plants i’ve seen in days – more so as their orange flowers lick the deep blue of the sky, cloudless. It’s hardly fitting that here, in this loud and beautiful contrast of colours, our family must come to an [...]
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The Local Local Lifestyle
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 14 November 2009
Rebecca Corey, KF9 Tanzania The first time I got shoved out of the way in a mad rush to the dala-dala bus, my friend Victor said to me, “This is the local local lifestyle, pole sana–I’m very sorry.” The next time he said it was when the electricity went out and I was reading in the [...]
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Tanzania by Numbers
Blog: Africa Attraction - 9 November 2009
Day 25 14.10.09Kande Beach (Malawi)-Matema (M1)Accommodation: Matema Lakeshore Resort Distance travelled: 273 milesDay 26 15.10.09
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Our Kids Will Have to Learn Karate
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 5 November 2009
10/11/09: Iringa, Tanzania In the middle of the crowded fruit and vegetable market, I felt something bump up against the side of my left leg. Only because I’ve been on high alert in crowded places such as this one did I think anything of it. I quickly glanced down, only to see a hand in my [...]
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So Africa Isn’t Perfect After All
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 4 November 2009
10/9/09 – 10/10/09: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Last night will probably go down as one of the worst thus far in Africa. After returning from dinner at 8:30, Zhou and I and most everyone else were ready for an early night to prepare us for a pre-5am wakeup this morning. By 9:00 we were ready for bed. Mistake [...]
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Go Hurry Curry!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 3 November 2009
10/9/09: Zanzibar, Tanzania I was just getting comfortable on our hour-long bus ride back to Stone Town this morning when all of a sudden we stopped and the driver hopped out to look underneath. The bus was stuck on a small hill, and it looked like several of us fatter riders were going to need to [...]
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The Picasso of Present Day Zanzibar
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 31 October 2009
10/7/09: Zanzibar, Tanzania It’s been almost a month since we left the States, and we’ve yet to buy much of anything. Zhou’s been granted a few shillings here and there to pick up earrings and a sarong, but I’ve managed to even escape buying a new shirt despite the pleas of Zhou and everyone else on [...]
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Ooooh, Barracuda
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 30 October 2009
10/6/09: Zanzibar, Tanzania Zanzibar – worth 28 points in Scrabble, if only there were two z’s in the bag… We arrived in Stone Town, Zanzibar this morning after getting up at 4:30am to catch the 7:00am ferry from Dar es Salaam. The ferry had several unexpected amenities, including air conditioning (first AC since coming to Africa) and [...]
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Great Expectations
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 29 October 2009
10/5/09: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Today was our one-month anniversary. [Side note: Isn’t it strange that Kevin and I have been together for over five years but we’re now celebrating our one-month anniversary?] We celebrated first by spending eight hours on a truck (with 21 of our closest friends). When we finally arrived at camp, [...]
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The Bad Road
Blog: Africa Attraction - 29 October 2009
The Bad Road isn’t determined by the quality of its tarmac or by the number of its potholes, but by what is travelling on it and the manner in which it is travelling.
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Anywhere in Africa
Blog: Africa Attraction - 29 October 2009
A quick nightcap? Why not? We follow our new friend Mayo through the blackest of nights to the village pub. Needless to say, it’s no Nag’s Head, just a small shack with a small bar and a small television. The all-male clientele aren’t sat at the bar, they’re sat in rows, basking in the luminous bling, bitches and beaches of hip-hop videos. All still, all expressionless. Mayo orders the beer as we take our seats outside the makeshift movie theatre, cloaked in the invisibility of the night, looking on.
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Cool Running
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 27 October 2009
10/3/09: Ngorongoro Reserve and Arusha, Tanzania There’s an old African proverb that says, “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. [...]
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Best of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Pictures
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 26 October 2009
10/2/09 – 10/3/09: Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Reserve, Tanzania Because I am too lazy to write an actual post. Don’t blame me, I caught it from the animals. All they do is sleep. _____________________________________________ Picture of the Day: Mr. Turtle thinks about his own ancestry as he looks out over Olduvai Gorge [...]
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Ready, Steady, Serengeti!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 25 October 2009
10/2/09: Serengeti National Park Before embarking on our journey, when I imagined Zhou and me in the Serengeti, I pictured us wide-eyed and bushy-tailed, hanging onto every second as we saw lions, hyenas, Pride Rock, singing warthogs and everything else we could dream of from the Lion King. This afternoon on our way out of the park, [...]
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Chumbe Island Coral Park
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 23 October 2009
Chumbe Island Coral Park is a small, privately owned island in the Indian Ocean located between Zanzibar and the Tanzanian coast. Situated 8 kilometers south-west of Zanzibar, the island can be reached in 45 minutes by boat from the Mbweni Beach departure point. The island is run by the private nonprofit organization Chumbe Island Coral Park, Ltd. (CHICOP) which conducts marine research and education programs on the island. Income from visitors is re-invested into park management and the education programs that operate in the park. The island has a small mosque, ...
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Masai Casa es Su Casa
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 23 October 2009
10/1/09: A Masai village in Tanzania Today we were attacked by kites (the birds, not the kites) at lunch, we saw the Ngorongoro Crater, we toured the Serengeti (as made famous by the Lion King) and we pitched our tent in the dark and in the rain and in the middle of a park full of [...]
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Dreaming of Dar
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 21 October 2009
By Jennifer Gong, KF9 Tanzania My name is Jen Gong and I will be spending a few months at YOSEFO, a Kiva field partner in Tanzania. I arrived in Dar Es Salaam about 2 weeks ago and here is my first entry… the YOSEFO CREW! There is something enchanting about Tanzania. Most travelers would say the charm is in [...]
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Snakes on a Plain!!!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 21 October 2009
9/30/09: Meserani Snake Park in Arusha, Tanzania We spent most of today driving from Nairobi to Arusha, Tanzania. We’re camping tonight at the Meserani Snake Park before we get up early tomorrow morning and head to the Serengeti. Now just stop and think for a minute. We are camping outdoors at a campsite that calls itself [...]
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A Rough Start
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 21 October 2009
By Rebecca Corey, KF9 Tanzania After my first day interacting with Kiva borrowers I was exhausted but exhilarated. It was slow work, waiting while the money for the loans was counted out and matched with each client’s loan record booklet, paperwork was filled out, treasurer and secretary books were gathered. Outside the Tujijenge branch office in [...]
