Tia

Hi all! Well after much anticipation & preparation I'm off on my trip to Africa! First stop is Malawi where I will be volunteering in a hospital for 3 months (requests for black babies have been noted)! Then I'll be travelling overland from Nairobi to ...

... They are so nice. Today I just hung out and talked. That night I stayed up late and watched the fast & furious with Tia's housmate Daniel. Funny guy :) 12.11.11 What a great way to start the day... Breakfast BBQ and Rekorderling Cider :) Lovin' life ...

... scheduled time of 1:00pm and lunch was nearly finished being cooked. We thought that maybe we had misinterpreted our arrival time, but Tia Petronila  simply wanted us to serve the lunch. There was time for us to help make the tasty Agua de Jamaica ...

... plantations owned by large scale farmers. Tia Vanilda and Tio Valters farm is not one for production, they have a few cows which Tia Vanilda milks twice a day (I didn't manage to see it as I ended up sleeping both during the early morning shift and the ...

... was braiding my hair and cuddling me and asking for pictures with me. She´s all of four years old. She kept callig me ti tia Susie. Aunty Susie. Well actually Tia Susie is aunty susie but titia is like much loved Aunty.... !!!! Neidi took me to the ...

... the Columbia Valley, visit the Vista House and admire the falls until.....David twists his ankle stumbling down a path. I catch him and Tia massages his ankle. Two ladies looking after him....he must have enjoyed that. Well, a reason for him to let me ...

... , so we thought it was pretty lame that we couldn't even go in. Turns out it was just a government building and the real Tia'namen Square was further down the road which we finally found!  There were hundreds of people everywhere and a huge crowd of ...

Saimos logo cedo do Porto e fomos em direção a Viana do Castelo, cidade do meu sogrinho, para procurar a tia Emilia, que é irmão da D. Rosa, avó do Rodrigo, que mora em Barroselas. Vocês não imaginam como é o caminho. Ruas super estreitas, ...

... Madrid y me despidi de ellos y estuve con ellos un ratito antes de volver a casa. A la hora de comer volví a la casa de la Tia Manoli que me había invitado a comer. Comimos un cordero mas rico en una salsa mas rica y la tía me enseno las obras que ...

... ’t mentioned it yet because I keep forgetting but we have a phrase here because well Africa isn’t the U.S. and it is TIA, which stands for things in Africa. And one of those things right now is our shower in our chalet, actually both showers. ...

This is Africa... A few TIA moments... Simon (5 yrs old) and his sister Regina (3 yrs old ) attend our school.  They live with their grandparents, some cousins and aunts.  Neither Simon nor Regina were at school one day.   We later ...

... would pet them and they were soooooo happy, i´m thinking about kidnaping one and taking him home.....Well, today all I did is see my Tia Vica (dad´s aunt) and her family for a bit, and the rest of the afternoon we went to another farm called Ojo de Agua ...

... it lacks hot water, any lights, or bed sheets. However, I am quickly learning that complaining would be futile...after all, TIA. Thankfully, set-backs have been relatively minor over the past week. I am slowly learning Amharic but the language is still a ...

ZVel.ja, for de ikke-Afrikareisende: TIA er kort for This is Africa. Det er jo et uttrykk som oser av en vestlig forståelse av afrikansk kultur, samtidig som man slenger et helt kontinent i ett trekk sammen. Antropologen i meg får både fysiske og ...