For pretty much all of Christmas break I've been counting down the days and weeks until our SST unit leaves for Tanzania. Now that those days and weeks have turned into mere hours until our 1:00 a.m. departure time tonight the situation is seeming much more realistic. Any nerves that I was anticipating feeling at this point have pretty much turned into excitement though. We'll just be praying for safe travels and as few delays as possible.
Leading up to this trip, I've been trying my best not to make assumptions that this trip will be anything like my year spent in Brazil. I know that Tanzania will have a rich culture, beautiful landscapes and great people that will all be unique to Tanzania. I just think that it will be hard not to make comparisons once I finally arrive in Dar es Salaam. Either way, I'm looking forward to finally getting to Dar es Salaam and meeting my host family. I'm going to try to update this blog as often as possible with new info about my hosts and interesting/noteworthy stories (of which I'm sure there will be many). Hopefully I'll be able to get some great picture up here for everyone to see also. Look for a new update within the next week.
Sounds great! Except what is SST anyway?
ReplyDeleteHey, my brother's doing an MCC term in Tanzania. Are you staying in Dar es Salaam for the whole time?
ReplyDeleteOh, and best wishes and all that. Try not to speak Portuguese instead of Swahili. ;)
Oh no way Sheralynn! Where abouts? I"ll only be in Dar for a couple more weeks and then in a town up north a little more called Nata.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Chemchem is a word in Swahili that means fountain or something like that, haha