After a very busy time at work (hence the lack of blog posts for a while), I really needed some chill out time. Fellow Brit and VSO Kay who arrived in July and I decided to take ourselves off to Kigamboni for an overnight stay. I went to Kigamboni back in April for a work […]
Before I came to Tanzania, I got some very good advice about getting used to people coming and going. Both the volunteer and ex-pat communities are pretty transient and as Dar is the biggest city, this is where everyone arrives and departs from. There are about 20 volunteers based in Dar, many of them in […]
In the last week before I changed placements, my former organisation BEST-AC had a planning retreat. This was a three day event away from the office to look at achievements in the past year and plan for the next. After giving us a number of choices on location, the majority plumped for the Sunrise Beach […]
It was a 4am start for me to leave Kibaya. After a quick wash and change, Peter & Debra walked me up the road in the moonlight. On the dot of 4:30 my piki piki (motorbike taxi) arrived. I jumped on the back, held on behind and off we went through the deserted streets to […]
This has been rather a long time in the gestation and I have several more blogs to post so you may get a few in a row… My first morning in Kibaya came after a 12 hour sleep under a quilt. It gets cool at night here, so it made a very pleasant change to […]
My trip up country at Easter meant a 4:30am start in order to be at Ubungo bus station for 5:30am. Ubungo is on the western side of Dar es Salaam and serves all the buses heading out of the city to long distance destinations. It’s also teaming with people at that early hour as the […]
After six months in Tanzania, I’m changing placements. My current organisation is well run and the people are lovely but it’s just too strategic and far removed from the ‘rock face’. Also, I really wanted to do something I was passionate about. So after some negotiations with my current boss and discussions with the VSO Country […]
Meant to post Part 2 straight after Part 1 – apologies – my life here is very social which is good for me but means I’m out instead of blogging. Here it is… With an early start the following morning, most of us headed off to bed early. Wanting a less interrupted sleep than the […]
Two weeks ago some of my fellow volunteers, VSO staff and I headed off from Dar on a road trip. We were bound for Moshi, northern Tanzania, in the foothills of the magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. Every year Moshi plays host to the Kilimanjaro Marathon. Alongside the full marathon there is also a half marathon and 5km […]
Tomorrow morning along with 20 of my fellow VSO volunteers and staff, I’m heading for Moshi at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro to take part in a 5km run on Sunday as part of the Kilimanjaro Marathon. A few of my intrepid colleagues are doing the full or half marathon. This is to raise money […]
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