Millie in Tanzania 2017

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. -- D. H. Lawrence Good evening y'all. I am writing to you while relaxing in my room after a long day.  Wow, already two weeks have gone by!  I have a feeling that my time here is going to fly by fast. I am enjoying my time in Dar so far quite a lot.  I still am adjusting to the fast day to day hustle and bustle and differences in everyday things but ultimately I'm pretty happy with my choice to do an internship here!  Like I mentioned before the apartment is very nice and cozy.  Its kind of the perfect place to come home to after being in the office all day or going out and about. My first week went very well, I went in last Monday and got acquainted with the team (small but mighty) Gill who manages the operations, Nondo who is the regional coordinator, and myself have an office about 10 minutes away from the house.  Gill has been showing me the ropes and how to walk to work, taking t...

To get lost is to learn the way. ~ African proverb I woke up to chickens cockadoodling and dogs barking before dawn on my first full day in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania--note to self, use ear plugs tonight!   This needless to say prefaces the fact that I safely made it to Dar after 20 hours by plane from Boston--the longest plane ride I've ever taken and by far the furthest I've ever been from home.  I sat next to some nice people on the plane and I highly recommend flying Swiss Airlines as they have delicious food!  One guy from Tanzania even lived in Liberty, Missouri of all places, we laughed about Kansas City and bbq.  Oh it is a small world and the universe has a way of bringing people together. Just a girl & her pack... It was a fairly smooth ride beginning  from my uber ride from my University to a pit stop in Switzerland and then breezing through immigration in Tanzania-something I thought was going to be a long and complicated process...