On Saturday, June 20, our students departed for a new host family and a new setting to begin their Service Term, the second half of SST. Stay tuned for more updates about the communities in which the students are living and the volunteer work they're doing with nonprofits, community organizations, and municipal governments!
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Lectures at the University (and Donna’s Bday!)
Jan 26 2023
Thursday Jan. 26th
Wow, the last few days have been a flurry of activity! Tuesday and Thursday we visited the University of Dar es Salaam for our last two history lectures: the first on the Swahili Civilization and the second on the colonial period.
In between these lectures we had a rich time of sharing, story-telling, and discussion at Unit House on Wednesday.
Today during Swahili class the students ventured to the kitengi and kanga market to practice their Swahili – and of course to buy some clothes! The morning culminated with a surprise Birthday party for Donna (aka Mama Mara – it is traditional to call mothers in reference to their children – Mama Isaac is fine too!). Our wonderful students pooled their resources and bought her a kitengi dress and a bag – who of you out there is responsible for these amazing people? Their care and good spirit has been amazing.
Tomorrow morning we will board a daladala for our first overnight weekend trip. We’ll spend 2 days and one night in Bagamoyo, a small fishing village about 90 minutes north of Dar. We’ll report on that trip in our next blog.
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