Tawny and I ended up at Pacific Lutheran University together long long ago. We both attended for four years and almost never met. It wasn’t until I got the call that the J-Term for Tanzania was going to be cancelled unless the could get one more student to jump onboard. J-Terms were the fancy sudo-semesters that PLU hosted where for the month of January you could take an intense course, usually aboard, and it would count for a whole semester. They were honestly the best. In 2008 I was scheduled to take the J- Term abroad to Antarctica but fate conspired to get up to Tanzania and up Kilimanjaro instead.
They first time Tawny and I met was at the last minute orientation for our Tanzania trip, just months before we graduated, and we didn’t like each other. From across the room each of us was put off by the other and didn’t speak at all until we were setting up camp on the Ngorongoro crater…
To be continued.
Read MoreTawny and I ended up at Pacific Lutheran University together long long ago. We both attended for four years and almost never met. It wasn’t until I got the call that the J-Term for Tanzania was going to be cancelled unless the could get one more student to jump onboard. J-Terms were the fancy sudo-semesters that PLU hosted where for the month of January you could take an intense course, usually aboard, and it would count for a whole semester. They were honestly the best. In 2008 I was scheduled to take the J- Term abroad to Antarctica but fate conspired to get up to Tanzania and up Kilimanjaro instead.
They first time Tawny and I met was at the last minute orientation for our Tanzania trip, just months before we graduated, and we didn’t like each other. From across the room each of us was put off by the other and didn’t speak at all until we were setting up camp on the Ngorongoro crater…
To be continued.
Read MoreThe Disney movie “Cheetah” is what brought me to Africa. It sounds ridiculous, but I remember being 8 years old and glued to the television whenever my mom put that movie on. I was enthralled with the sights, and the people, and even the animals that were featured on the film. There was something so mysterious about Africa and I […]
Coming at ya NYC! It’s official! The boy and I booked our tickets to New York City! It’s the first leg of our journey and we’ll be leaving Seattle on June 16th. It’s nice to finally have them purchased so we have an official date to look forward to. The price wasn’t terrible either. We’ll be crossing the country for […]
A Change in the Winds… Last night the boy and I went out for a midnight powerade run (the stuff’s delicious). We decided that the cherry blossoms were too beautiful and the weather was too nice to go straight back inside. Instead we walked to the elementary school across the street, played on the playground, rode the seesaws and talked […]
