Letters from Zimbabwe: July 30, 2014
Hello! Yes, hello. No Swahili in Zambia and Zimbabwe. However, we’re quickly learning that Shona, the tribal language in Zimbabwe is similar to Swahili.
Letters from Tanzania: July 22, 2014
Zima! Zanzibar. I don’t know what it means in Swahili, but it could very well translate as “heaven.”
Letters from Tanzania: July 20, 2014
Hujambo from Tanga! It seems hard to believe, but we’re two-thirds of the way through our trip with the global health students in Tanzania.
Letters from Tanzania: July 13, 2014
Habari! There is a suspicious monkey watching me type this morning. I think he’s trying to decide if my computer is edible.
Letters from Tanzania: July 10, 2014
Mambo! Contracting infectious diseases isn’t unusual on trips like this one.
Tanzania Trip 2013
NUNM students traveled with Dean Heather Zwickey to Tanzania to learn how research is conducted internationally.
Coming Home: August 7, 2013
Hi all. We had a few minutes of concern yesterday when the government closed the embassy in Rwanda and Burundi.
Letters from Rwanda: August 4, 2013
How does a country recover from genocide? Is it even possible? I remember thinking this same thought when I visited the concentration camps in Germany.
Letters from Uganda: August 2, 2013
Indescribable! The beauty and joy we experienced today is beyond anything I can say in words.
Letters from Uganda: August 1, 2013
Hey there! When we knew we were going to go to Rwanda, we had the mission of seeing gorillas.