Happy Easter from Tanzania

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven - Rick Warren Just a short one today, to say Happy Easter to everyone I know around the world. I'm currently, relaxing in Meru House Inn in Arusha which I would recommend to all travelers. It has all the basics like hot water, a bed and wifi. Plus there is breakfast each morning. We don't have...

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The Odd One Out

We boil at different degrees - Ralph Waldo Emerson Like this sunflower in a field of maize, being in Africa can make you feel like the odd one out. I would not characterize this as a bad thing, if anything it adds another dimension to your experience. On my first day at Haydom, I met a large number of the other volunteers, medical students and guests at Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH). Unsurprisingly (at least to me), I was something of...

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This is Africa

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - Cesare Pavese Finally the moment you've all been waiting for (I'm an optimist at heart), my first post ever from Haydom, and in fact from Africa. As with many things in Africa, things happen at...

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Get Ready for Lift Off

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain I'm currently sitting in Brisbane Airport at 1:00am waiting for my flight. It's not the most exciting part of the journey, but every journey has to start somewhere. And realistically this journey...

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