Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
As our water woes have continued, the question I keep wondering is, how long will this go on for? If someone just told me: there’ll likely be no water until it rains, I think I might find it a little easier, but instead we keep being told, ‘tomorrow’ or ‘on […]
The last few years have been a wild ride for our family, as has been the case for many others… In 2019 we experienced significant displacement on home assignment, and 6 weeks after we arrived back in Tanzania, Covid hit and we went into 5 months isolation working from home […]
I finished my PhD fieldwork this week, well ahead of schedule. It’s a pretty big milestone and has been a mammoth effort. Arthur asked me how I wanted to celebrate – should we do something special, like go to our favourite BBQ place? I delayed answering but I wasn’t sure […]
Our Callum has recently been asking each member of the family what our favourite thing is about living in Tanzania. I told him it’s the fashion – the prints and the designs and getting it made to fit specially for you. Arthur said his is the creatures, not just on […]
In our backyard, the teak and custard apple trees are greening again after losing their leaves in the cooler season. The ground is bone dry as we await the big rains. (Normally we expect them at the end of the year but with climate change the seasons have become more […]
Last weekend we had the chance to go to a mahari(dowry)/engagement celebration. In the past we have been included in the church service where the ring is put on and the party afterwards. However, this time the ring ceremony was to happen on the same day as the dowry. We […]
TAFES has been having its annual month-long Staff Orientation and Training camp (SOT) in September and I was asked to conduct morning aerobics on weekdays. I jumped at the chance as it is a not-so-secret ambition of mine to become a fitness instructor one day. It was considered a valuable […]
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