Sunday was a long bus travel day to Dar where Mom, Bob,
Dahlia and I spent the night. And Monday
morning we started off early again.
Dahlia and I took my Mom and Bob to the Lighthouse Inn located on the
beautiful beaches on the outskirts of Dar.
Seriously, this place was a beach bungalow with fresh flowers on the
beds and a woman with a tray of freshly squeezed passion juice as we stepped
out of the taxi. Unfortunately though,
Dahlia and I could only stay for a few hours and one amazing meal because we
had to head back into the city to the Econo Lodge (nothing against the place,
it was actually pretty nice, but there certainly weren’t and flowers on the
beds) because we had our End Of Service Conference with WorldTeach.
The conference was really great though. All Day Tuesday we were at the Ministry of
Education talking about our experience, giving advice for preparing next year’s
volunteers and laughing about the ridiculous concerns that we had at our first
orientation meeting which occurred in that same room. Two of the ministry officials who had come
that first week to welcome us came back to hear our feedback and suggestions
after spending a year teaching here.
There are a lot of things that I think they do really well in Tanzania
but I have also had a lot of frustrations especially with the difficulty of the
national syllabus. I think everyone at
the conference felt so much better about leaving knowing that they ministry
cares so much about improving things and that they were willing to hear us
out.
Wednesday was back to the beach for Dahlia and I to pick up
my Mom and Bob and then, once again, back into Dar where we picked up Hannah!!!
(One of my best friends from college) That’s right, Hannah is here in Tanzania
for the last two weeks of my adventure here.
I am SO grateful to have her with me!
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