tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89720572473455663752012-02-16T20:35:15.538+03:00We are together to fight AIDS!cnoreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972057247345566375.post-73302649482869080722008-02-12T02:14:00.000+03:002008-02-12T02:29:51.346+03:00

:)www.carriecweaver.smugmug.comThere are a lot of them. And no, I haven't forgotten about my blog or ANY of you. Will update soon now that I'm settled in a new city. I need to get my many thought together...

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Writing is not something I'm doing a lot of right now. I'm just experiencing. But I'll let you know a bit of what I've been up to...This last "weekend" was a four-day weekend for us volunteers. The schools are closed for the summer, so we're not missing many scheduled teaching days, and being in Africa so far away from home, SIC gives us opportunities to travel a bit. So this weekend most of

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It's been a while since I posted last. Again, there's so much to talk about... and I won't cover it all. I'm trying to journal to keep up a bit and hopefully write about it later.I moved into my new village this week on Monday. We're now in another ward called Nduruma. I'm in the farthest-out village from Arusha city, and it's called Majimoto, which literally translates to "hot water," and

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This is what we advertised on our posters for our village HIV testing day held on Thursday. We tested 92 people! (96, including the four of us wazungu volunteers.) It was an exciting day for me, and most of the people we tested were secondary school students, which meant a lot to me, as it showed that they had taken our teaching to heart and acted on what they'd learned. As they've heard us

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We’ve had a very productive week in the village. Along with our regular school teachings, we had four community teachings, reaching about 200 people. The first community teaching was scheduled for Monday out near the Nazareti Primary School, one of the schools we teach at twice a week, about an hour’s walk away from the center of town. Gaby and Stefanie expected no one to show up. They weren’

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One night, I tried—with my limited Swahili—to explain to my Baba one of the differences between America and Tanzania, as he’d asked me what’s different. The thing that came to mind was greetings—or lack thereof in many parts of the U.S. In the village culture of Tanzania, greetings are of utmost importance. When you pass someone—especially if they’re alone and you’re alone—you stop, greet,

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Some of us volunteers have talked about the interesting racial dynamic here, from being a part of a vast minority, to being called out to or referred to as “mzungu” (white person), to calling our experiences “African” versus “Tanzanian.” During that conversation we came to the conclusion that the people here do identify as African almost as much as they do Tanzanian, even though the continent is

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Upon arriving in the village, we each spent the day with our respective families. Some toured the village a little with them, some were introduced to other members of the village. I discovered that the animals here are not used to being affectionate or treated nicely. In other words, they’re not really my friends.The next day we all met as a teaching group to tour the schools we would be

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“Kwite kukechenn” (Kimeru)“Mi casa es su casa” (Kihispania)All the volunteers and teaching partners moved into their homestays on Thursday, October 4th. We were placed into teaching groups according to our work and homestay preference sheets as well as the strengths of in individuals as teachers. I’m in a group with Gaby, a girl from England, Stefanie, a fellow Bruin, Joey, a volunteer from

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Hi Friends and Family, As you know, this is the first weekend I’ve had internet access for two weeks. So I’ll be making several posts as what I want to tell you all divides itself up into headings. Since my last post, I’ve been placed in a teaching group, finished orientation, moved into my village and homestay, had meetings and teachings with the village leaders, and started teaching in

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Hi All--I won't be taking much time for this post. We have one day in town (today) before going back to orientation at an internet-less location. I'm feeling really frustrated that I can't relay everything that's going on to you all. I feel like I need hours on the computer to do so. There's always so much to write. So on this post I'll keep it brief (in the interest of time) and shoot for

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I might jump around a bit in the time-scale, but I wanted to fill you in on a couple of other things I've been experiencing here.The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is taking place in Arusha right now. It doesn't cost anything to go watch, and it's walking distance from our hostel (Arusha isn't a very big city). Several of us went the day after we got back from the Safari. I don't

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Mambo Vipi!I won't give a play-by-play of the Safari like I had originally intended to do... I'll just write a little while I still have the luxury of internet access before the program starts.So, here's the big picture of my trip at this point, for those of you who don't know: Tomorrow (Saturday) my program starts officially. We'll be having our opening dinner together with all the volunteers

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My third day in Tanzania, my first day on Safari. For months before arriving in TZ, many of us on my flight over have been talking about what to do in the week and a half we had in country before program start. So on September 15th, six of us decided to go on a four-day/three-night safari to both the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater within Tanzania. There is so much I want to tell you about

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I woke up in the night several times (which is not uncommon for me, even at home), but was quite awake at midnight. I managed to go back to sleep until around five AM and was wide awake at 5:40. Pretty good for my first morning in the 11-hour time difference! I got up, took a cold shower and we all headed over to the main building at Center House to eat the price-included breakfast. We

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Welcome, all, to Arusha!When we arrived in Arusha in the early afternoon and met Ericka Mackey, the volunteer program coordinator in country. I was very surprised at how young she was! We loaded ourselved and our luggage into the SIC truck (with absolutely no room to spare--a trend that would continue throughout my experience, I see so far), and the carted us to Center House, a very peaceful

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Hello All--I have not posted for a few days because I have not been in town. I'll get to why in this post. For now, I will be spending a lot of time on the net so I can better give you a picture of what it's been like. So I may revisit some things I started describin g in my last post.Where to start??I'll start with the road from Nairobi to Arusha, again. So we took off on this road to see our

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Hi All-- Here goes for my first post from Africa.First of all, all is well. Also, the internet is quite slow and somewhat costly, but just about everything else here (Arusha) is not either of those things. The trip so far has been... wonderful, joyful, miraculous and chaotic! The first flight to London I was on with Devon, Ashley, Sarah and Nathan (four fellow UCLA volunteers), and we had an

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Many people have been asking about a mailing address while I'm in country. While I will likely be out in the bush, things can be sent to: P.O. Box 15024Arusha, TZGetting ready, ready ready!~Carrie

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Thank you to Brian and Grandpa Roy who have both commented so far. I know there's not a lot to comment about yet, but, this site being my mini awareness campaign, I would like it to be interactive. One theme of the trip is Awareness (as power), and I know that your and everyone's awareness even of my personal trip gives the effort much more power.Also, I am still accepting donations. Thank you

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I invite you to comment! :) Please comment on my page to let me know that you're reading it. Otherwise I feel like I'm writing to myself (which I can do privately, in a journal). So show and share the love! Thanks!

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Not knowing what to write, I'm just going to write a little of what's on my mind... It's a little over three weeks until I leave. There's a lot I feel I need to get done before going, including but not limited to, cleaning (out) my room, lining up classes that i may be interested in taking at UCLA winter quarter, formally and individually thanking each of my donors, maybe getting a rabies

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I want to make this space to lovingly thank everyone who has donated and is holding me in their hearts and prayers. Your written support is also very welcome on this blog (treatments welcome! :) I am knowing the perfect unfoldment of the trip right now as I feel the love and support surrounding me by all of you who are aware of, educated on and learning about SIC's mission and my personal

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Check out the latest SIC Newsletter for June, 2007. Here you can see what the organization has been up to most recently. Copy and paste this address: http://www.sichange.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102&Itemid=112.

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Welcome to my weblog! I will be updating y'all before leaving in my preparation for Tanzania. I expect to be able to update my blog every two weeks or so while I'm there. Be patient and enjoy!

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