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Dar es Salaam & Tarangire field site, Tanzania
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- Bartering at the Markets
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By Dana,
9/2/2010
- gooodmorning
- This week I visited Kariakoo, an enormous market close to downtown Dar that sells everything under the sun. It was recommended to me by my Kiswahili teacher as a good place to shop, and was not as touristy as Mwenge market (which is close to campus). She was right - there were incredible amounts…
- First Week of Classes
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By (author unknown),
9/2/2010
- Rafiki on Safari
- Firstly, apologies for any spelling errors in any of the previous posts. Checking grammar errors isn’t high on my priority list of things to do in Africa. Also, apologies for any repeat phrases like ‘full day in Africa’, this seems almost too surreal to be true that I have lived in Africa,…
- Makumbusho! ... No wait, Mango Garden
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By Caleb,
9/2/2010
- ACM Tanzania 2010, Caleb Ray
- I have a brief window of time between lunch and research methods to tell the story so here I go. For the first week in Dar, we did mostly nothing but sightsee and get acquainted with our surounding. You know, going to Mlimani City Mall, an American style shopping center with south african chains…
- pictures from last weekend
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By Linnea,
9/1/2010
- A Semester in Tanzania
- weekend #2
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By Linnea,
9/1/2010
- A Semester in Tanzania
- The weekend started with three of us girls getting our hair braided at a little hair salon near campus. It took nearly 3 hours, and we each had several women working on our hair the entire time. I look rather ridiculous now, but it was a lot of fun to do, and having a lot of small braids instead of…
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For me, studying and researching abroad on the ACM Tanzania program provided a realistic frame of reference for learning about the way that public health studies and interventions are carried out. And no matter what it is you’re doing, the most important thing is to understand the message my history teacher had been repeating in the course of my six months abroad: how we think often determines what we think. Studying abroad is all about the how. Since returning from the program, I’ve surrendered to my fond memories of the place that taught me so much, and I’ve channeled them toward my work. My grades are better-my schoolwork is fortified by a command of knowing how to research and analyze. My focus is sharper- I may not know exactly where I will be working in the future, but I know what my passions are, what I stand for, and the causes for which I will be working.
—Danae Roumis, Tanzania, Fall 2006
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