I arrived in Tanzania with 55 other trainees on Sept. 23rd, 1999 to begin our intensive 10-week Peace Corps training... here are some fellow trainees at the training site in Arusha in northern Tanzania
I arrived in Tanzania with 55 other trainees on Sept. 23rd, 1999 to begin our intensive 10-week Peace Corps training... here are some fellow trainees at the training site in Arusha in northern Tanzania
fellow trainees taking part in an activity at the training site building... during our stay here, we studied Swahili language, job skills, cultural adaptation, and medical self-care, among other things
Mt. Meru, the second tallest mountain in Tanzania (behind Mt. Kilimanjaro), as it stands over Arusha and stood over me throughout my Peace Corps training
a jacaranda tree, a type of tree with purple flowers which was in bloom during my first few months in Tanzania and added color to every place I went
the family of Eliab and Juliet Orio, my homestay family in Arusha, in Oct. 1999... the tall man on the left is their guard, a man of the Maasai tribe
my homestay brother and sister in my bedroom at the Orio home in Arusha
a bunch of us trainees went on a safari to Ngorongoro Crater, a conservation area and wildlife park near Arusha, in Oct. 1999... here we are gathered at a hotel drinking beers and singing songs on our way there
on safari in Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area
a cape buffalo at Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area
David and other fellow trainees take a break from the safari vans during our trip to Ngorongoro
fellow trainees carving jack o' lanterns during a Halloween party at the Peace Corps training site in Arusha in Oct. 1999
many of my fellow trainees hanging out on the porch of the main building at the Peace Corps training site after training sessions one day in Nov. 1999
Jackie, Joseph, and our language trainer Blandina at Arusha Day Secondary School, where three of us trainees had teaching internships for about five weeks in Oct. and Nov. 1999
Thomas, Frank, and Simon, the leaders of the education component of our training, at the training site in Arusha in Nov. 1999
a few fellow trainees with our Kiswahili language teachers and training coordinators at the training site in Arusha in Nov. 1999... we had just had site announcements, during which we trainees found out where we would be sent to work as Peace Corps volunteers for the next two years
me, Amber, and Ben dining on fried fish and chips at Bongoyo Beach in Dar es Salaam in Nov. 1999... we were on our way to visit our site assignments in Mtwara Region in the remote south of Tanzania but were delayed for a day in Dar es Salaam due to a cancelled flight... we didn't complain too much
I visited my worksite-to-be, the village of Tandahimba in Mtwara Region, for several days in Nov. 1999, during which time I stayed in a room in the home of Mr. Swalehe, my school's secondmaster, pictured here with his family... I would stay with him again during my first month living in Tandahimba
old colonial buildings in central Mtwara, the main town in the region where I would be living
the fishing beach near Mtwara Technical School (where several Peace Corps volunteers taught) in Mtwara
all in blue shirts at our Peace Corps swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Dar es Salaam in Dec. 1999: Sean, me, Brian, Clay, and Patrick... our status was about to change from mere Peace Corps trainees to full-fledged Peace Corps volunteers
me with fellow trainee Treela and others soon to be sworn in at the Peace Corps swearing-in ceremony in Dar es Salaam
newly sworn-in education and environmental Peace Corps Volunteers in Dar es Salaam in Dec. 1999... the ceremony concluded our training, and we each went to our individual sites scattered across Tanzania to begin our assignments for the next two years
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