Month: September 2012

So I spent a large part of my day today filling out information for Luther’s Institutional Review Board, which I have to get approval from if I want to use my project in the future for like my Senior thesis or something.  But because I got timed out of KATIE (Luther’s coursework website) it all…

Yesterday was pretty much a complete day of rest for me.  I got up in the morning at 6:45 and went on a five mile run with Michelle A.  It was boring because it was around the track, I felt pretty dehydrated, too.  After that I came back to the dorm and watched Harry Potter…

Well I just finished up another week of classes!  It was my last week of hardcore Kiswahili, much to my relief.  I’ve learned a lot of the language but spending so much time studying it in class compiled with constant attempts at speaking it with people (not to mention the amount of time spent each…

This past weekend was full of rest, history, exploration, and much picture taking!  We travelled via dala-dala up to Bagamoyo, about two hours up the coast from Dar.  It is a famously historic town in East Africa because it was a hub for the slave trade.  Traders would bring their captured slaves here before Indians…

Yesterday we had another Kiswahili test (every Friday) and it was by far the toughest one yet!  Oh well.  I’m not really worried about any of my classes… I’ll be alright.  Nothing else really happened yesterday that is of note.  I went to Mlimani City to exchange another 150$ for shillings with Jake and Bob,…

So yesterday, during Kiswahili class, I performed a song (in Kiswahili) for everybody!  Our teacher, Daktari Mtembo, commissioned me last week to write a melody for the song written on page 78 of our Kiswahili course book.  It was really well received!  He took a video of it and said he was going to put…