Africa Blog – Day 4, 5, 6

For the rest of the first week, we had 3 more workshops before our weekend safari trip. On day 4, it was just a typical workshop day on tropical diseases, such as malaria. A few of our team got to test for HIV or malaria, one of which was our awesome team leader Matt. Luckily,…

Africa Blog! – Day 3!

Leaving off from day 2, I’ll start with day 3! The third day was when everything started to get exciting! Just jokes! On the third day we made a trip to St.Elizabeth Hospital for a workshop on HIV and HIV caused Tuberculosis. The workshop was slightly boring, but still interesting. Everyone was dying for a…

Africa Blog! – Day 2

Mambo Everyone! There wasn’t much excitement on day 2. Basically, on the second day, we visited the local Projects Abroad office, did some paperwork for a work permit, exchanged money(Currency was around $1USD=1570TSH), and had “The Talk”, which was mostly about some rules and how things are going to work for the next 2 weeks.…

Africa Blog! – Day 1

Hi everyone! So I’ve just came back from my two-week volunteer trip to Tanzania, and I thought that I should share my experiences with you guys. First of all, I would like to thank the Amazing staff members of Projects Abroad for answering all my naggy questions before the trip, and their wonderful care while…

Video of the Day: Natural beauty

[youtube ydmE75YAEcE] A Dutch artists duo, Lernert and Sander, created this video with a goal “to apply 365 layers of makeup in one day to see how much is needed to go from a natural look to an outrageous one,” and to show that the common myth of ‘Make-Up is beautiful’ isn’t necessarily true. This model in the…

Video of the Day: Beauty and A BEAT!

Check out this awesome remake of Disney’s Beauty and A Beast. This is incredible, Todrick Hall, aka the producer/directer, is super creative to think of something like this. If you love Glozell, DeStorm, Katie Stevens, Vonzell Soloman, Miles Jai, or Antoine Donson, you will love this video! Enjoy! 😀

Has anyone seen this video?

Please take the time to watch this video. It’s not to advertise that these actions are okay, but to show people how much it hurts to get bullied, and in this case, a poor old lady is getting bullied by a bunch of junior high or high school kids. What happened to “respect your elders?”…

The benefits of volunteering abroad

Do you have someplace in the world you’re dying to visit, but don’t want your parents to be there? Exotic places like: Tanzania Ghana Kenya Nepal Thailand Peru Why not use a volunteer opportunity to travel and help others at the same time? There are many organizations that organize such volunteer trips for High School…

My summer bucket list

Today was the last day of school for most high school students before exams. I thought this day would never come. But now, the summer is finally here, and I’m super excited to start out my summer adventures. Summer is a great time for adventures, the sunny day just brightens up anybody’s mood, and there’s…