Tanzania: Ecology & Human Origins
Dar es Salaam & Tarangire field site, Tanzania
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- Climbing Kili
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By (author unknown),
12/27/2011
- "I Hear the Drums Echoing Tonight"
- 12/16
Today was the beginning of our Mt. Kilimanjaro expedenture. We started off at the base of the Machame route around noon with our day packs, walking sticks and hiking boots. We made our way through rainforest vegetation for hours. True to form, it started douwnpouring a few hours in, and I was…
- Home Sweet Home
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By Erin Frankson,
12/24/2011
- Tanzania 2011
- After 30 hours of travelling, I have finally made it home. The journey began with two days straight of rain in Dar (the biggest rainfall they have had in 50 years). As a result, many roads were flooded and closed down. I almost had a panic attack waiting for my driver to come pick me up from the…
- A Program in Ruins
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By James Godde,
12/23/2011
- Study abroad in Tanzania
- Wednesday rolled around and I was still in denial about the program having ended four days prior. Shaye, Abby and Liz had recently left for home. That still left ten students in Tanzania, three of which were on Kilimanjaro and three of which were now busy showing visiting family and friends…
- Leaving Tanzania
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By Erin Frankson,
12/21/2011
- Tanzania 2011
- Well this is it. I don’t know if I thought this day would ever come, but it’s finally here. I leave to go back to America at 10:10 pm tonight. It’s crazy to think that I can now officially say that I’ve “studied abroad in Africa”. It seems like just yesterday that we were arriving here in Dar…
- Pemba
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By (author unknown),
12/19/2011
- "I Hear the Drums Echoing Tonight"
- 12/3
Just like a vacation that seems to end before it ever began, the last leg of this semester is blowing by like a gust of wind. Last week I thought time was passing SO slow. Moments are slow, but days go so fast!
Right off the boat in Pemba, we boarded two small boats with our guides and headed…
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Being abroad taught me so many things about other people (my host family, my professors, and my new friends) as well as myself. I learned how to make friends easily and get myself from one place to the next with only the help I could offer myself. Friendships made in Tanzania were fast and strong despite whatever cultural differences we may have had. The ACM Tanzania program was perfect for me because I was able to gain credit for my biology major, while pursuing other passions as well. I studied new subjects, such as anthropology and human evolution, and Swahili (which I never before knew could be such a fun experience). The language aspect of the program was really wonderful because Swahili is a beautiful language and knowing it helped me to connect more with local people. I came into the country with wide-open expectations and that got me a long way. Without having any preconceptions I was able to become an entirely new person in Tanzania. I learned the meaning of confidence and patience and friendliness. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about Tanzania and my experiences there with affection and I would love so much to be able to go back one day.
—Julia Varnergardner, Tanzania, Fall 2009
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