Yup, Bagamoyo, Tanzania is where I'll spending a month volunteering through CCS again. I'm both excited and fretful.
If, like me, you don't know where Tanzania is, it's here:
Bagamoyo's on the coast, right across from Zanzibar. Zanzibar! That's one of those places you go to just to say, "I've been to Zanzibar."
Plus, I get to go south of the equator for the first time.
While I am more practical than my imagination suggests, part of me totally wants to pack an outfit like this:
Complete with kid gloves and parasol (not shown).
I've also discovered this list of possible diseases I could contract:
Dengue,
River blindness,
African sleeping sickness,
Plague,
Polio,
Tuberculosis,
Malaria,
Hepatitis,
Typhoid,
Rabies,
Yellow Fever,
and Cholera.
Cholera! Such a romantic disease, featured in many a Frances Hodgeson Burnett novel.
I kid. The name, like Earnest, may produce vibrations; the disease itself, however, is not to be had. I'm gonna get me a whole bunch o' shots. Thank goodness for modern medicine!
It really is a rather romantic as far as diseases are concerned! I am so excited for you! Have you taken into consideration your past encounters with African men? Do I need to be concerned about you running away and joining a remote jungle village?
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