So I found out officially that I'm staying in Morogoro! :) It looks beauuuutiful!!! I'm right at the base of the Uluguru Mountains and the City itself has a ton of different tribes and cultures mixed in. I'm going to be living with another girl named Linda and there's a 3rd girl meeting us there names Jelena. Our Homestay family lives about a 30 minute walk from work, which is great because I need to stop being chubby!!!! :) The other 3 are going up to Arusha but apparently it's really east for us to meet up on the weekends in Zanzibar or in Dar es Salaam, or go on a safari for the weekend (which is happening as soon as I can make it a reality!!!). We'll have a few different projects to focus on while we're there and get to move around a little as well.
We're going to be developing lesson plans on Malaria and Tuberculosis in Bamba (rural area outside Morogoro) as well as hygiene and sanitation. We're also going to work with the Environmental Club in the Chamwino Secondary School to raise awareness on environmental issues and health for the community overall. The students there have shown a lot of interest in the broader issues so it should lead to some really cool discussions. The Chamwino community also has a Girls group that we're going to work with on women's rights seminars, leadership and career skills, and environmental issues. Finally we'll be conducting training on life skills, peer education, and HIV/AIDS in the Faraja Trust Centre which should be really cool and good for developing my counselling skills. Overall I'm really excited... It sounds like exactly what I want. :)
We're doing an on line session to meet everyone going to Tanzania next week and we each have to present a mini-seminar just to get helpful feedback from each other and practise our presentation skills. The way I see it, if I can't present something to people who can understand me I shouldn't be trying to teach anything to people who speak a different language!!
Sooo much to process and so much to be learning about now and only 24 days until I leave....
THANK GOD exams are finished. I think my brain would melt.
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