tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18043492898469278312024-02-18T21:19:23.043-08:00Oriane Around the WorldOriane Around the Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185822366021924004noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804349289846927831.post-52676801383609476452012-07-22T03:14:00.000-07:002012-07-22T03:14:23.921-07:00New HomeI can't believe I have already been here for 5 1/2 weeks!<br />
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We just moved into a new house closer to Arusha to start work at our hospitals. Half of our group is spread out around Moshi, another town in Tanzania close to Kilimanjaro, but I am living with the Arusha group. There are nine of us girls living in the same house in Arusha and then working at four different hospitals around the city. I am working at Tengeru Hospital with Zodina which is about a half an hour commute on the dala dala.<br />
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It was so sad moving out of our homestays and the comfortable life we had gotten used to, but I will go back to visit my family during this month!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family Photo: Daria, John, Mama Glori, Ana, me</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">We had an interesting first night in the new house though! It was our new mama's 50th birthday so she told us she was going to throw a "small disco" to celebrate. Close to 100 people showed up and we feasted outside and learned the african line dance. It was really fun! But the most interesting part was that in the afternoon we saw our family slaughter a goat which we ate for dinner! It was delicious but then we discovered that they eat every part of the goat...even the intestines in the soup. I think I will stick with the normal meat from now on, but I am glad I tried it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">This weekend has been very relaxing so far. We spent all of Saturday in Arusha exploring the town more. We ate lunch at a very good hole-in-the-wall Indian restaurant and then did some shopping at the Maasai Market.</span><br />
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Then our friends Lauren and Raelyn from the program who are staying in Usa River came over to our house for dinner and a sleepover! <br />
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Friday we went to Mt. Meru hospital again. In the morning I fixed a centrifuge with Lucy
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Saturday we went to a snake park with some of our friends,
and because we are volunteers in Tanzania instead of tourists, the entrance fee
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We saw a ton of extremely venomous snakes, as well as a
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Lucy was much braver and let the snake crawl throughout her
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But the highlight of the day was that I rode a camel for the
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We left the snake park after all of us had ridden the camels
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going on just up the road so we walked for about 5 minutes and came upon the
Saba Saba Championship Car Rally! It was
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Sunday, we spent the day with family. We went to church early with our mama and it
was interesting to hear a service entirely in Swahili. The live music and choir were really fun and
lively!<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was a wonderful weekend! <o:p></o:p></div>Oriane Around the Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185822366021924004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804349289846927831.post-18568575509777149872012-07-10T01:05:00.000-07:002012-07-10T01:05:46.657-07:00Safari Weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sorry for the delayed post but I had a few thousand safari photos to sort through after getting other people’s photos. So here is the story of our safari weekend:<br />
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We got picked up early Saturday morning by a caravan of
three safari cars (we had a group of 23 people going). Our first stop was Lake Manyara National
Park. We got there at noon (after having
to change a tire on my safari car and later jumpstart the engine after stalling
out over a speed bump). But once we got
to the park it was great! We put the
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Lake Manyara is 300 sqkm, and the lake takes up almost half
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We spent the night at a campground/hotel that overlooked the
lake and the mountains. During the
dinner they served us, we were surprised with an acrobatics performance (that
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We were planning on heading out at 6:30 am the next morning
in order to get to Ngorongoro Crater early.
However, after much beating around the bush, our driver informed us that
one of our cars had broken down in the night and we had to wait for a
replacement one. When the new one came
it was smaller so we had to squish extra people into the other cars, but
finally we were on our way. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ngorongoro Crater used to be a volcano that collapsed down
into itself. The animals were able to go
down into the crater, but couldn’t get back up the steep slopes, so they all
learned to coexist within the 250 sqkm park.
When you enter the Crater, you start on the rim and work your way down
steep and windy dirt roads, but the views are amazing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We finally started the drive out of the crater at about 4
pm. Again, the views were amazing, but
this time we had a little bit of a scare.
When we were about halfway up the side of the crater, the clutch on our
car broke and the car stopped. We
quickly got out of the car and walked a little ways up the mountain. The driver had to roll the car backwards in
order to jumpstart the engine, which eventually worked. But I can now say that I’ve walked through an
African National Park! <o:p></o:p></div>
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It turned out, though, that our adventures wouldn’t stop
there. The driver of the new car we got
in the morning stopped in a small town and refused to drive us any
farther. Our drivers couldn’t convince
him at all, so they found a private van and paid that driver to take six of us
home. I stayed back with the two working
safari cars, and again we went on our way.
About an hour later, the safari car that I was not in broke down. We turned back to help them, but the van kept
going. This was about 7 pm, so it was
getting dark. The drivers were trying to
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A couple hours later, they were able to fix the problem with
a tea bag Daria found in the pocket of her jacket. However, the drivers didn’t want any of us
students driving in that safari car in case it broke down again in the middle
of the road. So we managed to put all 16
of us in our 8-seater car. It was
cramped an uncomfortable but we didn’t have to sit like that long because about
5 miles later the other car broke down again.
This time we decided to stay put and wait for another safari car they
were sending from Arusha to take us back in.
At this point we decided to call the people in the van to see if they
had gotten home safely. Just before we
called them, they had been stopped by the police because their driver did not
have a license. Apparently he paid off
the policeman and kept driving them back.
However, he did not take them to their homes (like it had been arranged)
and instead he stopped in the parking lot of a big shop/grocery store called
Shoprite and refused to go any farther.
Everyone got out of the van and walked into a well-known sports bar and
called their host parents to pick them up.
Meanwhile we were still waiting on the side of the road. But when the replacement car finally arrived,
my car wouldn’t start. After
jumpstarting the engine, we completed the rest of the drive home. My mama was waiting up for Daria and I when
we got home at 12:30 and had dinner and a hot bath ready. It felt so good to be home!<o:p></o:p></div>
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When we told the story to our teachers the next day, they
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</div>Oriane Around the Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185822366021924004noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804349289846927831.post-88980928147071501662012-07-04T04:10:00.000-07:002012-07-04T04:10:16.357-07:00Friday Hospital VisitFriday started off the weekend well. We had our first field visit to Mt. Meru hospital in Arusha. We spent the morning fixing their broken medical equipment and then had the afternoon off to explore Arusha. <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody>
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I worked on fixing an oxygen concentrator with Raelyn. When we opened it up, everything looked functional so we checked the electrical connections, cleaned it up, and then decided to test it out to make sure it was spitting out concentrated oxygen instead of just normal air. The only way to accurately test it is to use an oxygen concentrator meter, but most hospitals don't have those. Therefore, Dr. Malkin's lab came up with a method to test it. If you light a candle and blow out the flame, the concentrated oxygen should relight the candle. If the candle does not relight, the the oxygen coming out of the machine is not concentrated enough. However, we did not have any candles, so we lit the corner of a big piece of cardboard and held it up to the output nozzle. The conclusion was that the machine did work well! However, in the process, not only did the cardboard relight, but also the nozzle caught on fire because the cardboard was too close. Luckily we had a bucket of water close by and were able to put it out before any real damage occurred, but the nozzle still melted (it was plastic). However, later in the day, we found another oxygen concentrator that was broken beyond repair so we were able to harvest the nozzle and put it onto the other machine. Successful ending! We also completely fixed two wheelchairs and another group rewired an OR lamp. <br />
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We spent the rest of the afternoon browsing the markets in Arusha and locating the hardware stores. Then we headed home where the tailor came by with our finished skirts and we headed to bed early because we had to get up early the next morning to start our safari. <br />
<br />I will post safari photos and stories in the next couple of days!Oriane Around the Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185822366021924004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804349289846927831.post-40569839880983008602012-06-29T07:54:00.001-07:002012-06-29T07:54:59.325-07:00Simba<br />
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When we were in class on Monday morning we heard a cat meowing and
it sounded like it was coming from the roof.
Then as the day went on we kept hearing it meow and we figured out that
it was coming from inside the wall because it must have fallen in. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We
told maintenance about it and they said they were going to get it out but when
we came into class Tuesday morning morning we could still hear it and it
sounded even more desperate. It was so
horrible hearing it cry and not be able to do anything. Finally after talking to multiple people,
carpenters came in at lunch and took off the bottom panel of the wall and
pulled back the wood. We then rescued a TINY kitten; s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">he is literally no more than 6 inches long. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Before we got
him out of the wall we named him Simba (meaning lion in Swahili) and the name
stuck. Even though we later discovered that he is actually a she.
So we gave her some milk and a teacher at the school said she would take her
home but the teacher never came back. So Daria and I took Simba home for
the night. We nursed her Tuesday night (and kept her
away from our other kitten Poli who was very jealous) and then on Wednesday
morning my Mama’s friend came to adopt her.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We are all so happy to have found a good home for Simba!</span></div>
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tailor came by the house to measure Daria and I for traditional African skirts
she is making from the fabric we bought at Usa River market last weekend. We are supposed to get them tonight and are
super excited! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Also, Thursday was our last day of Swahili class with our favorite teacher Kisanji. On Monday we will rotate to another teacher. Here is a picture of our class:</span></div>
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I just spent my first weekend in Tanzania and it was busy!<br />
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Saturday morning we met at the training center at 9:30 am
for a day trip that Ben (the onsite coordinator) had organized. He had rented two dala dalas for the day to
take us to a Masai village on the side of Mt. Meru. We drove for a little over half an hour but
when we were almost there the dala dalas got stuck in the mud so we had to walk
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When we first got there the leader of the village met us and had us sit down where he had tea prepared for all of us. Then a tour guide met us and walked us around the village. The best part was when we were walking down a road and about 15 little children ran screaming up the road to meet us. The braver ones would come up and say the Swahili word for gift haha but I would reply sina (I don’t have any) and they would leave. There were always children walking with us and some little girls followed me and touched my hair. We saw the traditional masai houses and even went inside one. They bring their cattle inside the houses at night to keep the people warm. And traditionally they are polygamists so the more cattle they have the more wives they can have. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Traditional Masai house. The little boy in the middle told us he is practicing his Kung Fu!</td></tr>
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After the village we hiked to the top of a hill to see the cool view. It took an hour and wasn’t too steep but the problem was that it was sprinkling and the paths are all dirt which turned into really slippery mud so we were making bets on who would slip first. Luckily, it wasn’t me!<br />
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The view from the top of the hill was incredible. A girl, Angela, who had participated in the program last year, came with us for the day. She actually stayed with the same mom I have now. She is back this summer working as an engineer for a nonprofit but it was really great to meet her because she has a lot of useful advice. After the hike they served us lunch which was really good and then we walked to a waterfall. That took another hour each way but it was fun and the waterfall was really cool!<br />
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Sunday morning, Daria and I met Angela at a place called Cradle of Love. It is an orphanage for children 0-2 years old right next to our training center. We went in just to play with the toddlers for a while (Angela knows some of the workers from last year and they always love it when people come to visit). As soon as we walked in kids ran up to us and asked to be picked up and read to. I had 3 kids hanging on me at all times haha. It was a crazy two hours but I loved it.<br />
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Then we went with Angela to the Usa River market! It was my first time in a traditional African
market and Daria and I each got a Kanga.
It’s a piece of cloth that they fasten around themselves to wear. We got the larger version though and Mama is
going to have skirts made for us out of the fabric! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Angela’s side project when she is here is to make a Tanzanian
cookbook. Every Sunday, Tuesday, and
Thursday she learns a new dish from my Mama and Mama Farida (my Mama’s friend). So we went with her to Mama Farida’s house to
learn how to make a dish out of corn and beans and coconut milk. It was so good! I am eating way too much here!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Later, Daria and I walked to the University that is in our
neighborhood because they were having a music festival. All the music and dance majors gave a
performance of traditional Tanzanian dances and songs. It was super crowded so it was hard to see
the stage but the chants and songs were amazing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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After we came back from the festival, Mama told Daria and
I that she had been invited to a “Fundraising” and asked if we wanted to
go. This is a Tanzanian tradition preceeding
a wedding or funeral. Family and friends
gather to discuss how to collect money for the event. The idea is that family and friends will contribute
money to the event and then in return, when it is your turn to raise money, you
will be helped as well. As soon as we
walked in they piled our plates with food!
I couldn’t understand anything that was being said but it was still a
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I also experienced my first power outage! Apparently three wires fell down so we didn’t
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</div>Oriane Around the Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185822366021924004noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804349289846927831.post-66097866302968063362012-06-23T07:35:00.003-07:002012-06-23T07:36:02.369-07:00Karibu!<br />
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That’s the word I have heard the most since arriving in
Tanzania two days ago. It means
“welcome”. Welcome to Tanzania, welcome
to our home, welcome to this food. The
people here are so welcoming and friendly.
Greetings last five minutes as you ask: do you accept my respects
(shikamoo; response: marahaba), how was your morning (habari za asubuhi;
response: nzuri), how is your family (habari za familia), how was your
trip/travels (habari za safari), how are your kids (habari za watoto), how is
work (habari za kazi), how are your courses (habari za kozi), how was your
lunch (habari za chakula cha mchana) and more and more and more.</div>
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We are taking classes and TCDC, a training center built by
the Danish. The grounds are gorgeous and
full of greenery. We learn Kiswahili in
the morning and have engineering labs in the afternoon, but of course we have a
tea break during each session. I end up
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I am staying with a wonderful family in the Makumira
neighborhood near Arusha. Daria (my
homestay partner from my program) and I have a mama, a 13 year old kaka
(brother) and 19 year old dada (sister).
We also have a tiny paka (cat) who is only a few weeks old. His name is Pauly and he will pounce on
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The environment here is not what you would expect when you
think of Africa. It is not hot, dry, and
dusty—there is greenery everywhere and the temperature is in the mid 50s to
60s. One of the first things I noticed
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This weekend we will be touring a village on the side of Mt.
Meru and hopefully visiting a market! I
hope to buy a kanga soon. It’s the
colorful cloth that all women wrap around themselves during the day.</div>
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I will let you know how all of those activities go! Kwaheri (goodbye)!</div>
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Daria, my homestay partner, and I</div>
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My kaka (brother) and paka (cat)</div>
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More to come once I've arrived!<br />
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