tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87826242086992196022024-03-05T23:32:14.793-08:00URAFIKI - AMIZADELane Kurkjianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766070105992905088noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782624208699219602.post-89893172429745373092012-04-20T04:34:00.002-07:002012-04-20T04:39:41.341-07:00The Story of WOMEDA<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The following is a blog that I wrote for the Amizade website. As part of our program, each student is responsible for writing 2 blogs during the semester. The theme we chose to stem off of is the importance and the significance of story telling. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> This story begins with a woman sitting on a long, plain,
wooden bench in an ordinary room in Kayanga town. The room was once painted a
yellow-tan color but has since been decorated in scuffs, scratches, and dirt.
The paint is rubbed off in places, and the ceiling is home to handfuls of
wasps, migrating from their main colony to smaller ones near by. The woman sits
with her feet firmly on the concrete floor, her back to a wooden door latched
with a silver and gold padlock. She, like many women from across the Karagwe
District of North-Western Tanzania, has travelled from her home and family to
sit in this room. The room is plain, unremarkable. But it is in this room that
women are heard. This room, at WOMEDA, is where she has come to share her story
and to get help. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> WOMEDA,
Women Emancipation and Development Agency, is a non-profit organization
dedicated to assisting and supporting women with regards to legal rights and
gender equality in the community. The woman of our story sits in the WOMEDA
office, facing the social counselor who is tucked in behind her desk. The desk
is by far the liveliest object in the room. It is a rich brown wooden desk
overflowing with papers, folders, and notebooks, some of which spill onto the
floor. The keyboard is pushed to the side, and the computer is covered by
stacks and files. By its posture, it is clear that it is the least important of
the desk’s occupants. The counselor shifts some of these piles to reveal a
phone, keys, a stapler, 3 boxes of staples, and the WOMEDA official stamp with
purple ink. Once she is prepared with pen and paper to document the session,
the woman on the bench shifts forward, elbows on her knees, and begins her
story with a name, age, marital status, number of kids. As she exhales and
allows herself to open up to another woman, her story develops and brings to
life struggles, hardships, and inequalities as well as beauty, strength, and
passion. The burden of these truths overwhelm her and she glances away, towards
the single window in the room, covered by pink and orange curtains patterned
with flowers and bamboo. She takes another breath to steady herself, but her
tears betray her. “Don’t cry. How can they take you seriously if you are crying?”
the social counselor gently insists before they work their way towards determining
the best action plan for this particular client. Maybe she is given a letter to
summon her husband into the office, or a referral to the tribunal in her ward. Either
way, a plan is set in action to change the woman’s circumstance. It might be a
long road, but at WOMEDA she has finally been given a voice. With that voice,
and through sharing her story, she has been given hope for progress. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">At WOMEDA, telling one’s own story is essential to addressing
the problem at hand, whether that is a marital, family, land rights, or legal
case. The exchange of stories as a means of learning about and understanding
our new community is also a recurring theme in my personal growth and in our
group of Amizade students. As a temporary member of the WOMEDA community, I am
privileged with the opportunity to sit and listen to counseling sessions, meet
women from around the district, and hear their stories. I chose to share the
story of WOMEDA—an organization that gives thousands of women a voice—with you
in hopes of encouraging a ripple effect of awareness that simply begins with a
compelling story but has the power to initiate and support progress and change.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">To view the other students' entries:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">http://amizade.org/volunteer/tanzania-spring-semester/?submit=view</span>Lane Kurkjianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766070105992905088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782624208699219602.post-88959332995387762042012-03-27T03:51:00.002-07:002012-03-27T03:51:40.224-07:00Sikia Uhuru - Safari ya Bukoba<link href="file://localhost/Users/lane/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link>
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Two weekends ago, we went to Bukoba, a town right on the
coast of Lake Victoria. Spring break! Kind of. It’s about a 2 hour drive from
Kayanga, mostly on a bumpy, jostling dirt road. When I first saw Lake Victoria,
it looked like the ocean, that’s how big it is. The only thing is, you can’t
swim.
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">There’s a disease called bilharzia (or shistosomiasis)
that freshwater snails carry where the parasite burrows into your skin and
matures into a worm inside the tissue of your organs.</span> Fun stuff like that. But it was still gorgeous and
our guest house was right on the water. We hung out on the beach and had
delicious vegetable curry for lunch before heading down the road to meet our
tour company. It really felt like vacation, the fact that we were tourists
hiring a company to show us around. There isn’t too much tourism home in Kayanga…<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p>Sunrise over Lake Victoria</o:p></div>
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With our guides, we headed up into the hills that encircled
the lake. We stopped at a few viewpoints and walked down to some cliffs that
overlooked the lake. It didn’t feel like Tanzania. There were rolling green
hills full of grazing cattle and big grey boulders freckling the landscape.
From there, we continued further inland to a pine forest. It almost looked like
West Virginia, or Maryland because of the trees and the ferns. We made our way
to a cave hidden in the woods where leaders used to sleep during the war. Which
war and when, I don’t remember. (Great story, I know.) It wasn’t too big a
cave, but it was FULL of bats. You couldn’t stand up straight anywhere, 1.
because the roof of the cave was low but 2. because you didn’t want to get bats
in your hair. As we passed through, they started flying around us. I’ve never
seen bats THAT close. After we left the cave, we took a short walk to a
beautiful waterfall nearby. It was fed by a creek and surrounded by dense
greenery. And we could swim! The water was cold but so refreshing, and we spent
a couple hours exploring the waterfall and swimming in the pool below. It was a
perfect afternoon. Before heading back to our guest house, we drove to a remote
beach where fishermen were pulling in their nets for the day. By the time we
settled in for the night, we were all exhausted and couldn’t believed we’d been
in Kayanga that very same morning. <o:p></o:p><br />
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View from the cliffs</div>
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Joyce and I in the Waterfall</div>
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The whole group! (Mrs. Entratter -- Danny says hi!)</div>
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So many bats...</div>
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The Perfect Storm</div>
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Saturday, we each headed into town by ourselves. Caitlin set
up a photo challenge/reflection for which we had to take a picture that
represented each of 10 different statements, questions, or quotes. I took the
next 2.5 hours exploring Bukoba town and avoiding taking pictures. I tried to
take most of my pictures away from all the people, because it made me a little uncomfortable
to be snapping shots of everyone. That night, we took the 2 hours before our
food arrived at dinner (almost enough time for a real-time play by play of our
time in town) to share our pictures with everyone else. Joyce won the
competition and received the glamorous prize of 2 chocolate bars and a kitenge
of her choice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Saturday afternoon, we drove inland again, saw some rock
paintings, and had a traditional kihaya lunch. The trip to the kihaya farm was
a little cheesy, but it was worth it when a more-than-tipsy woman showed up to
dance with us and demanded that John take her as his wife. When Kara stepped in
and informed her that “sorry, he is already married to me,” it didn’t both her.
She would gladly be his second wife.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That night after dinner, we got drinks and sat out on the
beach playing cards. We walked down to a bonfire on the beach to talk for a
while, practicing our Swahili, before going out to Lina’s night club. It was a
fun night—lots of bongo flava music and dancing. My going out outfit: a long
flowy skirt, baggy shirt, and a flannel tied around my waste. Gotta keep it
classy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The next morning, Sunday, we met on the beach to take a boat
to the island off the shore. The plan was to ride to the island, see the burial
grounds of ancient kings in the side of the island, and hike to the tope of the
island for the view. This is not what happened. Here is the actual story:<o:p></o:p></div>
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As the boat approached to pick us up, so did the storm
clouds. We all climbed into the wooden fishing boat, with a motor though
luckily, and the wind picked up. There was a wall of churning black clouds
sitting right over the island and heading our way, but of course that didn’t
stop us. We headed out, nonetheless, with dry clothes, dry phones, and dry
bags. About 10 minutes into our ride it started raining, and the wind created
splashing waves that turned into giant crashing waves. The water poured over
the sides of the boat, into our laps and faces. By now it was pouring, and I
was laughing so so hard. The situation was ridiculous. The lake water was
EVERYWHERE. We wouldn’t have been wetter had we swam to the island. And we’d
been scared to put our toes in the water the day before, for fear of snails. Soon,
everyone, led mainly by Kara, began belting out songs. The performance
featured, “The sun will come out tomorrow,” “What do you do with a drunken
sailor,” “Sit down you’re rocking the boat,” “It’s raining men,” “Hakuna
Matata,” and other such songs, except many words were changed to apply each
song to our current situation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Things that I learned on the boat ride:<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>Not many things rhyme with Shistosomiasis OR
Bilharzia<o:p></o:p></div>
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When we arrived at the island, 20 minutes later, we headed
straight up the path to seek shelter in a little wooden house with a tin roof. The
girls sang and danced around, in attempts to get warm while the boys worked
out. Seriously. Someone showed up with a makeshift barbell made out of a stick
and two buckets of hardened concrete on either side. I thought we were supposed
to be breaking down gender stereotypes here...but we were cold, so I guess
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Once the rain let up a little, we made a fire outside behind
the house. By the time we got warm and dry(er), it was time to head back. We missed
the ancient burial sights and the view from the top of the island, but I think
we definitely came back with a better story.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We headed home to Kayanga that afternoon. We saw a bunch of
monkeys on the side of the road during the trip which was pretty neat. Our trip
to Bukoba marked the halfway point of our time in Kayanga. From today (March
27), we only have 29 days left before we begin our trip across TZ, eventually
ending in Dar es Salaam. The time is flying. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>Lane Kurkjianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766070105992905088noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782624208699219602.post-51783413590679516422012-03-27T02:29:00.000-07:002012-03-27T03:12:07.811-07:00Dresses and Braids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">On the 12<sup>th</sup>, I went into town with
Lida, Evelyne, Kara, and Joyce and I got my hair braided. It hurt. But it was
worth it because I looked GOOD. I was definitely the mzungu with the corn rows.
That girl. But it’s all good. It was a fun day at the salon, and
I was thoroughly entertained for the entirety of the 2 hours it took—one of the
men working there was having fun trying to deal with Kara and Joyce’s short
hair, then Lida and Evelyne got their hair done, and then the two of them came
up with interesting, unique new designs for Kara including French braiding her
side burns and the half-comb-over half mohawk look.</span><br />
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In other girly news, I took Caroline’s dress and my material
from the market to Joanita, the best seamstress in Kayanga. Two days later, I
returned with Joyce and Kara to pick it up. They loved it so much that they
ordered the same dress, different material, on the spot. It was great. Since
then, Caroline and Katie have also gotten a dress made. We all match. </div>
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The following Monday, Lida told us to wear our new dresses
to WOMEDA so she could see them. When we arrived at work, we were semi forced
into a giggly photo shoot. All the women went outside and took pictures in
front of the WOMEDA sign. Lida and Evelyne were cracking up, making Kara and I
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Above are 2 pictures of the water tank that we’ve been helping
work on in Chonyonyo village, about 40 minutes from Kayanga. The water tank is
one of many being built at a new boarding school for girls. The school is estimated
to open 2015. We mostly helped doing manual labor—moving rocks. Though while we
were there, we met 2 German engineers working through Engineers Without
Borders. They’re building a toilet at the school that separates feces and
urine, to use as fertilizer and compost. I’ve since been back a few times to
help with their project, which has been great. Last time I was there, we made a
mosaic on the base of the toilet, where you’re supposed to stand. Here is our
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Wikiendi iliopita, mimi na wanafunzi wengine tulienda sarafi
mlimani! Last weekend, the other students and I went on a trip to the
mountains! It was the second time we did the hike, but we decided we wanted to
come back and camp out for the night. So, Saturday afternoon we bought mats and
a tarp at the market, packed up our bags, and set out. There were 11 of us who
went: 7 students, Paul and Nathan (two of our teachers), Fahim, and Egbert.
Fahim and Egbert are two of the greatest and funniest people I’ve gotten to
know here.<br />
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Heading down into the valley on our first walk.</div>
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The crew settling down for the night.</div>
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It was
about an hour and a half walk into the valley to the river. When we got to the
river, it wasn’t a river at all. At least we didn’t think so the first time we
saw it. Fahim had told us there was water underneath, but all we saw was brown saturated
earth covered in head-high green grasses. But, as soon as we stepped out onto
what we thought was land, it moved. The land actually ripples beneath your
feet, and with every step the land rises and sinks. It feels like you’re
walking on a waterbed. I have never seen anything like it in my life. The
second time we crossed it, for the overnight trip, we decided it would be a good
idea to all cross barefoot so we wouldn’t have to walk the rest of the way with
wet socks and shoes. We slowly made our way across, squishing mud between our
toes. From there, it's about another hour to the top of the hill where we ended
up sleeping. When we got there, we set up our tarp in case of rain—the rains
have started here, so it rains for a few hours almost every day now. We unpacked
our food that Egbert put together for us and had the perfect picnic dinner:
chapatti, avocado, chicken, bananas, pineapple, and mangos. <o:p></o:p></div>
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it or not, it actually gets cold in Africa. Especially up in the mountains, at
night, during the rainy season. We ended up sleeping basically on top of each other,
wearing every piece of clothing we brought, under all of the kangas and mats
possible, to stay warm. In the middle of the night it started raining so we
moved under the tarp, which proved much warmer because it blocked most of the
wind. In the morning we woke up to find a herd of cows on the hilltop with us. The
cows here are not only huge, but they have 3-foot long horns on their heads.
Good thing Egbert used to herd cows—really though—and just shooed them away. In
the morning we had chai, packed up, and headed out. Crossing the river on the
way home was just as exciting if not more, because Nathan punctured the layer
of earth on the river and fell in up to his waist. He was covered in black mud
and smelled just great. Paul has a video of the river crossing, and in the
background you can just make out Joyce’s voice saying “So guys. How many
parasites do you think we all have?” Despite half-hearted worries about getting
worms, I’m sure we’ll go again. The trip was great. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Since
writing last, I’ve now been at my volunteer placement almost two weeks. I’m
working at WOMEDA – Women Emancipation and Development Agency. It’s an NGO in
Kayanga that provides support, counseling, legal aid, education, and clinics for
women and children. I go to WOMEDA with Kara, another Amizade student. Our
first week there, we mainly observed, listened and learned about the
organization and how things work. Since our first day, we’ve been sitting in on
social and legal counseling with Lida and Evelyne (two of the amazing young
women who work there) which is almost overwhelming. We’ve heard the stories of
women from all over Karagwe who come to WOMEDA for help. They speak mostly in
Swahili or Kinyambo, the local tribal language, so Kara, Lida, and Evelyne have
been helping me understand what they’re saying. It brings to life the gender equality
issues that I’ve mostly just heard about. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All the girls outside of WOMEDA</div>
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Working at
WOMEDA is also improving my Swahili so much. It forces me to speak, and everyone
is so helpful in teaching me. For the semester, Kara and I will be working on a
team with Lida and Evelyne to develop and write new WOMEDA policies on child
protection and HIV/AIDS. I will be focusing most on the HIV/AIDS policy, and
this past week I’ve been researching and reading a lot about the national
policy and laws. Starting next week, the four of us will be going out into the
community, to villages, hospitals, schools, and to the streets to talk to all
different people about these issues and what they value, need, and want. The
policy we are creating will cater to the people that it will eventually protect
and support. It’s a very interesting project, in light of what we’ve been
learning about sustainable development and project implementation. Plus, Lida
and Evelyne are the greatest. <o:p></o:p></div>
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about WOMEDA. Yesterday, Kara and I were sitting reading through some research
and taking notes when one of the men who works at WOMEDA, Ishengoma, comes in
and tells me he needs my help. Just me. I get up and follow him down the hall
to another room. I have no idea what he’s going to ask, or whether or not I’m
going to understand him in Swahili. We walk into Evelyn’s office, and Ishengoma
turns to me and says that he wanted me because he needed the help of an
engineer, so he figured that, naturally, I could do it. The big task: Change
the toner on the printer. I stepped up to the challenge, meticulously followed
the instructions in the manual in English, and after 5 whole minutes of hard
work I finally finished. What would WOMEDA do without an engineer around? I
felt so important. My years at Carnegie Mellon are finally paying off.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Other exciting things—<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>I got my first skirt made from a seamstress at
KVDPA where Joyce works. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>This Saturday, we are starting construction on a
huge water tank for a girls' boarding school in Chonyonyo village. We’ll be
working every Saturday until it's completed. I think it will be really
interesting to see how a design and construction project is carried out here,
and I am excited to help build it!<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>We finally got electricity back last night! I
wrote this entry last Thursday, but I wasn’t able to send it until now. I also
ended up with a migraine this weekend and couldn’t go to Chonyonyo but I’m going Thursday instead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. As part of the Amizade program, we are writing a blog that is being posted on the Amizade website. Two students write each week. Here is the link if you want to take a look: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://amizade.org/volunteer/tanzania-spring-semester" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://amizade.org/volunteer/<wbr></wbr>tanzania-spring-semester</a></span></div>
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Kara, Edna, and I. Just dancing. </div>
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They got us cakes from the one place in town with an oven :)</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Right now
I’m sitting outside of Misha Guest House in Kayanga town, our new home for the
next 3 months. We arrived here last Thursday from Kampala, Uganda, where I met
the other 7 students. This semester I am taking part in a Global-Service
Learning semester through an organization called Amizade. Amizade partners with
local organizations around the world to promote sustainable development
initiatives and to encourage students to become global citizens through
intercultural immersion and exchange. My program site is in Kayanga town, in
the Karagwe district, of the Kagera region of Tanzania. It is one of the most
remote regions in Tanzania, and we are living in a rural community in the
mountains of the Northwest. We are situated between Rwanda to the West, Lake
Victoria to the East, and Uganda to the North. Last Thursday we made the trek
from Kampala to Kayanga, kicking up dirt in our dueling land rovers as we made
our way down the dusty bumpy roads. Our car broke down (in a little town
luckily!) but after a couple hours and many heads under the hood, we were back
on the road and arrived here at Misha without any other complications.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kayanga is
beautiful. It is higher in elevation than Moshi, so it is greener and a little
bit cooler. From our guest house, you can see the hillside leading down into a
green valley and in the distance a green river. There are rolling mountains all
around us, red dirt paths, flowering trees, and welcoming people. There are not
many wazungu here—foreigners, or white people—because Kayanga is pretty remote,
but everyone is incredibly friendly and welcoming. Many of the students have
already employed the help of the neighborhood kids as part time Kiswahili
teachers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life here is different in the
little ways. We sleep under mosquito nets every night, we have to boil our water
before we drink it, we have squat toilets, the electricity goes out
sporadically, the water isn’t always turned on, we hand wash all of our
clothes and dishes, and few people speak English. After the first couple days, these things no longer matter and just become normal. Although they've already made for some funny stories.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sunrise from Misha guest house, our new home. </div>
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Where we live. Not too bad... </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Since
arriving, we’ve already settled into a semi-routine. We had our first classes
on Monday. We have Kiswahili with Bwana Osward everyday except Sundays, a
field-placement reflection class, Sustainable Development in Rural Tanzania, and
Global Service Learning. We start our volunteer placements next week, and every
day this week we are visiting a different NGO, listening to presentations on
their goals, missions, and our possible involvement. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jumapili
iliopita, nilichota maji na wasichana ambao wanaishi kilimani. Last Sunday, I
fetched water with the girls who live on the hillside. Three of our Amizade
students had met the girls on a walk the day before, and we came back the next
day to help them carry water. The girls were all 6-10 years old. They walk over
an hour, twice a day, to bring water back to their families. One of the girls,
Mariam, helped me fold my kanga into a crown, which cushions your head from the
heavy plastic jerry can of water. The spring was across the hillside and down
into a steep valley. It was a 3 foot long, 3 foot deep pool of water being fed
by a tiny stream of water coming from under a rock. We filled our jerry cans
and shoved a banana end in each of the openings as a cap. The girls are
amazing. Its inspiring and extremely humbling. They fixed leaking containers,
folded our kangas, helped us lift the water up onto our heads, and they asked
if <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we</i> were okay. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">They</i> were worried about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">us. </i>Its
hard to explain how you feel when a ten year old girl is carrying more water
than you are, which she does twice a day everyday, and she asks <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> if you’re okay. Everyone knows about
the water crisis here. But, the more I see and the more I experience, the more
I realize that I will never fully understand what its like to live without a
reliable water source and the direct and indirect effects it has on the community.
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As far as
my Kiswahili goes, ninajifunza kidogo zaidi kila siku--I’m learning a little
more every day. Today I sat outside in the shade with Justina, Winstrauss, and
Dianna, 3 of the Misha staff, and they taught me a bunch of new words and phrases.
They don’t speak English, so it’s always a fun time trying to understand each
other until finally everyone is laughing because I finally finally get it. Yesterday,
I made a best friend. Her name is Edna and she is two years old. She’s the
daughter of one of the young women working at Misha. It’s the perfect
friendship because she doesn’t care that I can’t speak Swahili yet. And she
might be the cutest child I’ve ever seen, with the biggest personality. Tunajifunza
Kiswahili pamoja. We will learn Swahili together. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Things are
just getting started here, as we arrived only a week ago, but I’m excited to
see how everything plays out. Today is my 21<sup>st</sup> birthday and it’s a wonderful
gift to be able to celebrate it here. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Hamjambo! </div>
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I
made it to Tanzania, and I’ve been staying here in Moshi town. It’s beautiful. The trees have bright pink and orange flowers,
its hot, and everything is dusty. Town is a mixing bowl of people, crazy cars
flying down the streets (on left side of the road!), street vendors, bikes,
workers – everything in motion. I took
the first day to explore town and get settled in. I stayed at Karibu Hostel
just outside of town, however the owner of the hostel told me upon arriving
that she was leaving the next day to go back to Austrailia for health reasons.
She’d been in a dala dala (little bus) accident, and needed some time to
recover. So, I decided I needed to find another hostel to stay in while in
Moshi. </div>
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The next
day I hiked up to the Shimbwe waterfall with a fellow traveller I’d met at the
Coffee Shop the day before. We took a dala dala to Shimbwe town, which was
quite the experience! Dala dalas are 11 passenger vans that are stuffed full of
people. When I say stuffed, I mean that at the max there were 24 people and a
baby on the bus with us at one time. 5 bushels of bananas, a chicken, and 3
cases of Kilimanjaro beer were also riding with us at different points. It was
wild. Once we got to Shimbwe, we didn’t really know where we were going so we
just kept asking people where the maporomoko was, which is the word for
waterfall. It was about a 2 hour walk through the little village and the surrounding
area until we could see the waterfall. An hours walk from there, through the
jungle on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, and we made it! It was definitely worth
the long walk. On the way back we got semi lost, but everyone was really
helpful and one man walked us a good portion of the way. Everyone here is so
friendly and welcoming. When they see a mzungu, a white person, they always say
karibu sana! Welcome! </div>
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We made it!</div>
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I spent
the next couple days preparing for my Kili trek. I met a girl at a local hostel
who decided to come with me, so we got organized and went to Weru Weru River
Lodge the day before we left for the mountain, where all of the Ahsante Tours
climbers stay the night before. Weru Weru is a little oasis about 20 minutes
outside of town, and it must be the nicest place in Moshi. When we walked in,
someone took our bags and offered us a hot towel and a glass of juice. Its that
nice. Two nights at Weru Weru are included in our overall price, because Ahsante
owns the lodge. Also, because we joined a group of 34 from the UK our price was
really reasonable. I left for the
mountain on January 29<sup>th</sup>. I just got back yesterday and…I climbed
Kilimanjaro!</div>
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Uhuru Peak - 19,341 ft! </div>
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For the
past 6 days, I’ve been on the mountain. It was a challenging, amazing trip, and
it was physically the hardest thing I’ve ever done. The first two days were
nice, just long walking days, around 6 hours each day. The first night, all of
the porters and cooks and guides got everyone singing and dancing together.</div>
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Paul and
Peter taught us one of the songs as well, and let me tell you—it’s been stuck
in my head every since. </div>
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Day 2 we
walked up through the moorelands. Again the scenery was breath taking, as it
was everyday. I couldn’t sleep though! I guess it was a combination of the
altitude and the cold. The third day, we climbed to lava tower, which is close
in altitude to base camp, the camp you stay at before the summit. Then, we hiked
downhill for two hours to Barranco camp. The 4th day was long and hard. It
started with traversing the Barranco wall, which is hands and feet climbing up
the side of this giant rock wall. We also crossed Karanga valley, which, on the
way back up, is so steep you would laugh if you saw it. We were walking so
slow. All the guides and porters keep telling us, “pole pole!” Go slow! Our
guide was a guy named Paul. He was fantastic. He's 27 and lives here in Moshi.
He spoke English really well and new the mountain so well. He was a porter
first, then a cook, then an assistant guide, and now he's been a guide for 3
years. Peter was our assistant guide, and the four of us, he said, were familia
Kilimanjaro. </div>
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fourth day, we arrived at base camp at around 2:30 pm, had tea (which we have
everyday!) and then had dinner at around 5. Just a side note, we were woken up
every morning with tea and coffee in our tents. So nice. And we ate three hot
meals a day on the mountain. And we had our own little tent with a table and
chairs for every meal. It was glamping - glamour camping - to the max. They
thought of every little detail to make it a more comfortable, enjoyable
experience for everyone. It’s quite the system them run here. So, every day on
the mountain you went to sleep (or tried at least) as soon as it got dark.
Every morning we woke up at about 6 so we could be walking by 7. On the summit
night we woke up at 11:30 pm. We left at 12:30, in complete darkness. We walked
and walked and walked and walked. It was freezing cold and so windy. My nose
and face still have wind burn 2 days later! But, through all the light headed
hours of walking, I finally made it to Uhuru Peak! It sits at 5895 meters,
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So far away! - Day 2</div>
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Sunset at Shira Camp - Day 2</div>
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The Shira "Cave" with Naama and some amazing porters and guides - Michael, Angela, and Peter</div>
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Kili keeps on growing! - Day 3</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lava Tower - Highest point of Day 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Taking a break after the Barranco Wall - Day 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Amazing sunrise on the summit morning - Day 5</span></div>
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One of the breathtaking glaciers on top of the mountain - Day 5 </div>
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A view of Base Camp, heading back down from the summit - Day 5</div>
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Familia Kilimanjaro! Lane, Naama, Paul & Peter - Day 6</div>
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</div>Lane Kurkjianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766070105992905088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782624208699219602.post-36708634163169302982012-01-22T12:25:00.000-08:002012-04-16T23:32:48.523-07:00Hamjambo!I am leaving in two days for Tanzania. I'm mostly packed, mostly prepared, and very excited! This semester has been years in the making, and I can't believe it's here. I'll be spending the majority of the spring studying sustainable development and volunteering in rural Tanzania through an organization called Amizade. We will be living in Kayanga, in the Karagwe district. If you search Kayanga, Tanzania on Google maps, it'll give you an idea of where our town is. Our program begins February 7th, so I'll be spending the two weeks leading up to then exploring Moshi and the surrounding area, and climbing Kilimanjaro.<br />
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