Journals

While we’re here we plan to look into the HIV/AIDS epidemic - we’ll be talking to members of various organizations as well as with people who are living with HIV/AIDS. South Africa has a population of 45 million and 5.3 million are living with HIV/AIDS - that’s 13% of the world population living with the […]

Well, today we are leaving beautiful Tanzania – we’re headed towards Cape Town, South Africa. As excited as I am to see and learn about South Africa, I am very sad to leave Arusha and the people I’ve met. After dropping of a small gift of Seelah, Allan took us to Kilimanjaro airport. From there […]

We arrived here in Arusha, Tanzania a few days ago. This area is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen in my travels. Thick, green, luscious foliage covers every square inch of the mountainous areas, particularly around 19,000 foot Kilimanjaro. This is the land of the Masai people and also home to […]

Man o’ Man I love the time I’ve spent in Tanzania. This country is so so beautiful and the people are so welcoming, smart and F-I-N-E! (Special note to all my single sisters out there).
Where to start, We landed in Dar es Salaam (Capital of Tanzania) on Sunday. I found this sweet house for rent […]

This morning Allan picked us up and brought us to his office to tell us more about Terrawatu: Bridging indigenous and modern worlds - the idea is “combining indigenous and moder wisdomes and technologies” - in Tanzania, Terrawatu works with the Masai, who know about traditional medicines/indigenous plants which can be used to treat all […]

TODAY WE WERE UP AND READY TO LEAVE AROUND 7AM- BACK TO THE AIRPORT IN DAR- WE NEEDED TO GO BACK TO KILIMANJARO AND FROM THERE TO ARUSHA- A NORTH EASTERN AREA OF TANZANIA- THIS IS WHERE WE WOULD STAY FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK. ARUSHA HAS A POPULATION OF ABOUT 3 MILLION, AND […]

It’s 7:00 AM and I’m sitting in the Dubai International Airport waiting to catch a flight to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We said goodbye to Han yesterday evening in Bangalore and have been flying all night. We’re on our way to meet Carrie for a 2-week run in Africa including Tanzania and South Africa. We’ll […]

Bangalore has been great to us. After our whirlwind trip through Israel and Palestine its been really great to get to India. I’ve spent many years studying music in India and it always makes me happy to get back. Bangalore is a crazy and congested place like all the large cities of India but the […]

Joel, Dominic, and Carrie are a few months and eight countries into this enormous project. In Palestine now, I’m ten days and two countries into it. I feel like I finally found my rhythm. We left Maya and our friends in Israel on Monday for Jerusalem, where we spent a day fighting the urge to […]

We’ve been on the ground for a few days now and it’s taken some time to get up to speed. We were all so grateful to have some down time in Minneapolis recently but things are now in full swing here in Tel Aviv. Han Shan joined us in the airport in Newark on Monday […]