tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334458092011-10-01T13:38:24.249Ztake a look alongside my environmental studies internship: 3 months in mwanza, tanzania, (africa) working with crwrc and king's university college, living at streetwise-africa's 'treehouse'. a project with buhumbi village's growth monitoring health program and doing participatory research to investigate relations between child health and village harvest/rainfall/sickness over the past 10 years.LindsayAnnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08033232485554220536noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445809.post-1168223859904736762007-01-08T02:27:00.000Z2007-01-08T02:37:39.926Z

Well for anyone that might still look at my wonderous blog,I just want to say that i made it home safely on December 18! Merry late Christmas and Happy 2007. I had a wonderful time in Tanzania, despite having some Malaria near the end. My internship ended well and I am happy to say i miss Tanzania and the friends I made there. I feel I learned alot but am not up to writing an eloquent speech

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Well it is time to write an update. Currently I am in the last leg of my journey, internship, work, analyzing…whatever you prefer. I have had the wonderful blessing to meet with two very educated people in the area of data analyzing! Fancy that. They have given me some pointers on the database and encouraged me about how cool this project is. I have about 10 days to write up some form of a

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some safari pics. yes i know that amidst poverty and confusion it is difficult to step into another world but it was amazing! wierd to think there are so many different situations and places to see all in a three hour driving radius.giraffe on the roadin ngorongoro crater which is an ancient volcano where many animals preside (there weren't that many when we went but further into rainy season

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WELL november 11-14 came the long awaited safari. My wonderous friend Sarah came down from Kenya to visit and for a safari i planned to the serengeti and ngorongoro crater. Three other ladies joined us including Jan, who has worked with me here, Naomi and Kay who are two other friends here. it was a great break and awesome that i could experience it with a close friend! It was camping and I

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well a few weeks have passed since I wrote on my blog. There are a few different experiences I wish to share, so i'm going to make separate posts:) About a week and a half ago my purse was stolen. Kind of an assault or mugging if you want to call it that...but basically my purse was ripped off my shoulder. I was walking home with a friend from another friend's house- about a 12 minute walk.

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This past week I have interviewed many different organizations and learned alot...from my journal since i'm too lazy to think right now:"I have learned that Tanzania is full of orphans because of AIDS. full of street children because of poverty and the fact that many communities ignore child rights. learned that girls stay at home and are often beaten. more boys are on the streets cuz girls are

LindsayAnnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08033232485554220536noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445809.post-1162038205504693562006-10-28T11:48:00.000Z2006-10-28T12:23:25.520Z

Putting up the data postersJohn talking in Sakuma, asking about what the mamas thinkweighing this is one of the charts- the goal of the program is ultimately to have all the children in the green!

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Yesterday was a successful day! (don't get philisophical and say well what defines successful...) Jan Micherhuizen and I went out early to the village of Buhumbi to present the information that we had gathered from interviewing individual mama's(about rainfall, harvest, types of food eaten in which months, sicknesses of kids in which months etc)about 2 weeks ago. I had made posters and we

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This is a picture at the village Yamatala this afternoon. This week and next I am working on visiting different NGOs to interview and see what they do. Church of Christ is a Church working in Tanzania to evangelize and also support churches that are in beginning stages. The Sakuma people (a major tribe in Northern Tanzania) are receptive to the gospel and eager to learn. So this village had

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Well another week has passed already. Time continues to fly and daily activities tend to keep taking longer than I think they will! It HAS started to rain though, and the temperature sure drops when it does- its wonderful! It has only sprinkled for about 10 minutes on a few afternoons, but people say that with the amount of humidity in the air and how hot it is, it should start raining more

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this is the 'sickness calendar' Mama Leticia made for us. (women here with children or married are 'mama' to all. older women are 'bibi' and I am 'dada'- sister). The months are along the bottom, and sicknesses go up the side, such as malaria and hookworm. She showed us which months are usually the worst and best for which sicknesses in children.This is Mama Leticia Pauline working on the

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Well I am perty tired right now but was just looking at my pictures of today and thought I would not delay in posting at least 1 picture. Today was really amazing and I'm so glad I had the opportunity to take part in it. Although I was thanked along with Jan for coming and told that what we are doing is great and Karibuni (all welcome) and Ahsante sana (thank you so much), I feel that they gave

LindsayAnnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08033232485554220536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445809.post-1160331429454429712006-10-08T18:12:00.000Z2006-10-08T18:26:41.450Z

This is one of the views from the waterfront of lake Victoria, sunset time! wonderous.

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well HUJAMBO! (you say SIJAMBO- all is well, basically). so today we have the generator on- hence me feeling maybe i should put an update on here. I generally feel that i have so much to say that i just don't say anything. I am also much more of an emailer, hence taking so long to post an entry on here...hmmm another learning experience for lindsay: just put more on here and email less= less

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Hi! So it is Saturday, September 30th, and I can’t believe it. I have been here now for 2 weeks and 4 days. In some ways the time has flown by, and I feel that I have been here for years and can’t really imagine anything else right now. Then on the other hand I judge the amount of things I have done and realize I really do have so much more to learn about life in Tanzania in terms of, well,

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Many times, assumptions are made by others about the type of work ethic held by people living in countries such as this, where it is hot and not much seems to get done- according to our western standards. But here I see that many people must live day by day. Work here also includes the gardening, the carrying of water, the picking of fruit, walking to get food from the market, pounding the

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So a few nights ago, while there was a group of Italian women staying at this guesthouse, I went out for dinner at a nearby restaurant with them and Elisa, another Italian who works here. As there haven’t been too many people around, I was glad for the invite, even though much of the conversation took place in Italian- just another cultural experience I told myself, and I like the company!

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The time of year is very dry. This is on the way back to Mwanza from Buhumbi (Bahumbi), Bahumbi was about an hours drive, and I even saw a monkey cross the road!

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I am glad that I took a cross cultural communications class at Trinity. It has helped open my eyes to alot of things here. Just by beginning to study Kiswahili it is very apparent that respect and the correct greetings are very important in this culture. It is essential to make sure that no one that you talk to feels that they have been slighted and have not been given a sufficient amount of

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pictures: papaya tree in the back yard, and view off the veranda in the front of the treehouse- Lake Victoria in the background.

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Well, there are so many things to say. I have been introduced to many people as well as trying to converse in a language that I am completely unfamiliar with, and keep finding myself trying to talk creole (language in Haiti which I can get by with) to all the passing people. Tomorrow I begin Swahili class, and will take this class for two weeks, two hours per day (unless I decide that it too much

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hello new house, goodbye old housetime is flying and there is so much to do- trying to help landscape the front of our new house and to prepare for going to Tanzania (needles, packing- only 23kgs!!...lots more)... I got some sweet binoculars from my dad so I can see giraffes and zebras and other cool wildlife from far away. I will be staying

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Well its a beautiful sunny day and i'm working on going outside. I just got home from being at a wonderful Environmental Studies Institute called Au Sable, where I learned about sustainable and ecological agriculture and global development (university credit courses- so of course i don't know all there is to know!) It took place for 5 weeks on an island called Whidbey, just to the north of

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