Ruaha Hilltop Lodge Ruaha National Park

January 23, 2010

We were up bright and early to say goodbye to Ilula and to head off to Image, which is about 18km from Ilula to conduct another mobile HIV clinic. Image is another location the hospital in Ilula serves. It was a Saturday morning so that means the nurses and a couple of the doctors work all week and then get up...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Another day packed in the back of a Landover out to kipaduka for the perinatal/vaccination/family planning clinic. I started with Dora (Mama) Saga seeing pregnant moms for prenatal visits. It all started out great. Assessing for gestational age (how many months pregnant), HIV status, blood pressure and just gen...

Sunday,
January 17, 2010



We
arrived in Ilula Friday afternoon.
Exhausted, we pretty much crashed.
We were banned from the guest houses on the hospital campus due to the
Vice Presidents' visit to dedicate the hospital as a district designated
hospital on the 19th. This is
VERY exciting ne...

The Ilula rain, the smell of it fresh fallen from the misty mountainous sky. The mixed scent of cooking fires, mud, body odor and diesel (ahh… the attributes of a developing country). The sound of the frogs and crickets at night, the never ending hospitality of my Tanzanian friends and how many times the words "ashante" (tha...

After leaving Dar we took a bus to Changarawe to meet Filistas, the woman we are staying with for the first month.
The bus ridewas ok, only 3 hours to changarwe, much better than the 6.5 we had to look forward to the next day!
We arrived in Morogoro (The nearest big town) and were mobbed by taxi drivers who all said they wanted to be o...

11/22/09

Spicin' it up a little

I don’t think anyone will ever believe that I went to Tanzania and never went on a safari, but, there was another purpose for this trip. I will have to come back. I did decided that I needed to do something touristy while here – so I decided to go to Zanzibar, known as the spice islan...

Mambo vipi!
It is mvua mbwa na paka nje leo (raining cats and dogs outside today) and it is cold for once which is awesome! I am so gross right now though, I think my family thinks I don't like to shower very much, so they have stopped giving me them recently...which is starting to be a problem since showers are actually just buckets of warm ...

Mambo!
So today is halloween so I wore black and orange, but that is about the extent of my celebration on this half of the world. I hope everyone eats a lot of candy and dresses up in ridiculous outfits and takes pictures so i don't totally miss out! Besides missing halloween and the wonderful fall leaves that come with it things continue to...

We had an 11-hour drive time and we had a 4:45 am leave time. We would also be having breakfast after we got on the road which doesn’t make sense to me. And it kind of makes me angry at the same time to because as soon as I wake up, I am hungry and need to eat. It doesn’t matter if it is 4:30 or 8:30, I need to eat something. If we w...