Archive for Category: "tanzania"
Tired of Being Mzungu in Tanzania
I leave Tanzania in three days and it’s time to go. It’s been three months of cold showers, upset stomachs, and tough lessons, perhaps the toughest of which was this: I will forever be a tourist here
Clean-Obsessed in Tanzania
Where I come from, we’re used to conserving water. We endure droughts grudgingly and shorten our showers, stop watering our lawns and washing our cars.
Get What You Pay For: My Safari Experience
Well, shoot. I couldn’t go to Africa without going on an African safari, and I especially couldn’t spend three months in Tanzania – one of the safari capitals of the continent – without seeing some of the best scenery Africa has to offer
P.S. I’m A Hot Mess In Africa
In the movies, when women travel abroad they always look fantastic. All the time. Take Hilary Swank in P.S. I Love You, for example. When she meets her future husband in Ireland at the beginning of the movie, she’s got her eyebrows plucked, fresh-faced make-up on, adorable hat perched on her perfect hair. It’s really no wonder Gerard Butler fell
No, Random Tanzanian Man, I Will Not Marry You
Every time I leave the house in Tanzania, I’m reminded that white people, or mzungus (I believe the correct plural form of that word is wazungu, but I don’t hear people use it often) do not exactly fit in here.
