| the old pond / frog jumps in / plop! – Matsuo |
In the spring of 2012 I spent a life changing semester in Tanzania, studying ecology and human origins. We explored mountains, walked the paths of the cradle of humanity in the Great Rift Valley, and ate all kinds of good shit.
My girlfriend at the time gave me the perfect gift: a journal! I never had one before and kind of went crazy with it. I used it to chronicle almost every day of my life in Tanzania. That hemorrhagic spewing led to a 65 story blog, all of which is now consolidated here
Some of my best writing from this youthful time:
The Footprints of History, The Mountain of God, Cooking Maasai Food with Maasai People, Animals in a Boma, Giraffe Hunt and Goat Slaughter, Maasai Greetings and Stories, Goat Races and Bob, ‘Kilimanjaro’ and the Fish Market.
Below is the journey in reverse chronological order. Enjoy!
People are too addicted to the Internet (me too)! It saddens me how much of a grip, a pulling grip that computer use has on the lives of the people of my generation. Even here, with severely limited access, people scramble and fight for the chance to get on it… it’s pretty sad. I am…
It’s been raining quite a bit lately here since Thursday, really heavy, intense long lasting rains. Last night it was relentless and I woke up a couple of times in the tent because of the noise. I am pretty relieved that no water got into Bob, Ryan and my tent. It’s surprising because our zipper…
So today Anna Dinwoodie helped me restart my Kindle and it worked! I am really fricken excited that it wasn’t completely broken! I honestly thought that it was never going to be usable again! Today was mostly uneventful except for the doctoring of my Kindle. Then naturally I read! It was great. And during the…
Today is Halloween! We celebrated by dressing up, having caramel apples and drinking alcohol (and playing lots of cards). We also had some caramel apples, which Barbara Wye helped make. They were delicious and I think everyone in camp liked them! I was a Spartan Warrior for Halloween; Leonidas aka Gerard Butler with a drawn…
After not really doing much besides reading for the past couple of days I felt the need to go back out there to do interviews. So this morning I talked to Samwell about going out to recruit more. At 9:00AM we set off to visit more Bomas across the road from Zion and deeper into…
Today I spent a lot of time writing down transcriptions of my last 3 interviews. It took a long time, but it’s always satisfying to complete.