Who are we?

This blog is an agglomeration of the thoughts and experiences of two American girls who packed up and moved to South Africa on a whim. Caz from Fairfield, Connecticut and Mandy from Milwaukee, Wisconsin first met as roommates in 4127 on Semester at Sea in Fall of 2010.
In the interim, Caz returned to finish her Bachelor of Science with a double major in Biology (concentration in Microbiology) and Geography with a minor in Chemistry at the University of Miami in Florida, while Mandy took a hiatus to rediscover her real passion working with pregnant women, advocating for home birth and delivering babies outside of a hospital environment. We reconvened to follow both of our fields of study (read: hopes, dreams, asiprations, life goals, etc.) outside of the United States. Hello South Africa?

We are both here for at least a year and a half, though the more time we spend falling in love with South Africa, the more we'd like to think it'll be longer. We are both starting jobs in November/December: Caz working with infectious disease at a hospital clinic and Mandy beginning her training to become a certified midwife. Before then, we are both writing a book about our experiences leading up to this adventure as well as the multitude of serendipitous happenings that led us here.

As always, feel free to comment or ask questions. If you have an interest in a topic, let us know and we will surely oblige you (within reason). Enjoy!

Friday, October 4, 2013

The Cradle of Humanity and My Dad

Just a heads up that this half of the blogging team is going to be MIA for the next several days - I'm headed back to East Africa, through Nairobi this time and onward to Arusha. 

I'm meeting up with my dad to explore the other side of the Serengeti and give him his first introduction to Africa. While I may be a veteran traveler all across North, West, East and South Africa, he has never set foot on the continent, and thus never understood why I kept having to come back. I'm ready for him to see what I've been talking about all these years. I'm excited and nervous - if he doesn't love it, I will be frustrated, but I'm pretty used to that highly biased, somewhat racist and mostly pittying view of my new home. Bring it on, we'll just have to show him all the heart this great warm continent has to offer - who knows, maybe he'll end up burrying a pair of shoes here. 

 I know everyone who ends up coming to visit will be impressed. It's just a question of by which incredible thing. I just have to do my city justice as a tour guide. 

In the meantime, what've you got Tanzania?!

I'll be back later to update - hopefully I'll have many more hyena encounters to discuss!

- Rh


Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)