A Week for Human Rights

It started off on Tuesday, November 8th as my local professional sorority, Kappa Gamma Chi, sponsored Emerson’s First Annual Amnesty International Write-a-Thon. Amnesty International is a global human rights movement,…

The Real Life Lion King

    ….pink bottomed monkeys, tree climbing lions, grandiose babao trees, running giraffes, bathing hippos, dirty warthogs, laughing hyenas and all! There is no one person who would travel all…

Translanguaging

Another facet of Tanzanian culture that intrigued me was the art of the language: be it Swahili, English or Maa (the language of the Maasai tribe). The few weeks leading…

Back in Time

Let me take you back in time, to 2009 when I first experienced Africa. Since the sixth grade when I first heard about my high school’s Tanzania Exchange Program I…

A Day in The Life…

…of a volunteer in “the-middle-of-nowhere”, Tanzania. I’ve gotten to a point in my re-adaptation to the Western world where I can finally write about the amazing children I taught for…