Tags: Elevate PR, Elevators, Tanzania, TanzEd, Volunteer
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Karen, one of our Account Executives in Elevate, is volunteering in Tanzania for six weeks… here’s how she’s getting on:
I’m having such a great time, and am now half way through the project – I can’t believe how fast it’s going. We’ve just been so busy, it’s crazy! It feels like I’m here about three months not three weeks.
The school I’m teaching in is super nice, it’s called Top Stars and it’s really far away from the place that we’re staying in, but the principal comes and picks us up every morning in her pickup truck which is hilarious because we sit in the back with the bikes and chickens and food and stuff!! We all got bikes because we cycle everywhere! Seriously surprised I haven’t shed half my body weight because there have been daily bouts of sweat and tears on that bike.
In my school, there are only about 10 teachers but they’re all amazing people. It’s a nursery and a primary school so there are super small babies there, who are just adorable. The kids in the school are 3-10, years so they are quite young to be learning computers, but the teachers are really good with them. All our teachers started teaching the kids computers this week and they are really good, its great thinking that we taught them all of the stuff that that they know now…feeling very proud of myself!
Morogoro, the town we’re living in is a nice place up in the mountains. When we were on the way here from Dar Es Saleem, it was scary! You get such a culture shock when you arrive, as there are people everywhere, all living along the sides of the road. On our three hour journey to Morogoro, there wasn’t a second that we didn’t see people living in little houses on the side of the road. All of the African people just stare at us all of the time, they seem gob smacked that we are here. They constantly scream Muzungu at you (“white person”), which took a bit of getting used to, as they stare you right in the face and just roar the word at you!
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20/07/2010 – 10:11 No Comments
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Miami was the destination for a significant birthday celebration last week. We felt blessed to get literally the last flight out of Dublin airport before it was shut down.
Miami is a great town and we were lucky enough to be staying at the Fontainebleau, a fantastic spot on Miami Beach. Obama had just checked out as we checked in and Clinton was there on the Saturday night being entertained by The Village People (who we managed to share a dinner table with, after their performance. Only three of the original line up are still in the band).
Highlights of the trip included a tour of the stars home on Star Island, Tropical Art Deco architecture on South Beach, shopping on Lincoln Road, excellent food and sunshine.
It is a great holiday destination and in the end the volcanic ash only delayed our return by 24 hours.
It is great to get a shot of American optimism and upbeat can do attitude. It makes all the doom and gloom in the Irish media more bearable!
28/04/2010 – 16:12 1 Comment
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by Marie McGrath
Forget backpacks, casual work and roughing it. My advice is to do Australia in style and cover as much ground as possible in a short amount of time. In four weeks, I managed to cram in Perth, Melbourne, the Great Ocean Road, Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas, Cairns, Brisbane, Fraser Island, Noosa Heads, Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour, Port Stephens, Hunter Valley, the Blue Mountains and Sydney. It wasn’t relaxing but it sure was amazing.
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22/03/2010 – 16:09 No Comments
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I had the good fortune to spend Christmas with family and friends in California. Needless to say the weather was fantastic and a welcome break from the coldest winter in a generation in Ireland. To be able to wear fit flops and feel the sand in your toes every day of the year has to make for one of the sunniest lifestyles around.
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25/01/2010 – 15:47 No Comments
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by Marie McGrath
For my last birthday I got a lovely gift of a weekend break in Monart. For anyone who has already visited Monart, you will probably know that the only bad thing about Monart is the bill so the fact that I wasn’t paying made it so much better! This was my first visit and I promise you, I will be back!
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18/01/2010 – 12:03 2 Comments
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A recent trip to Amsterdam reminded us what a lovely destination it is for a weekend break.
Cycling around the city is the best way to experience it and take in all the sights.
There’s lots for culture vultures, including the Rijksmuseum, which features a famous collection of works by Rembrandt. The Van Gogh Museum hosts the largest collection of Van Gogh paintings in the world and the Anne Frank House is packed daily, but well worth waiting in line for.
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26/12/2009 – 19:35 No Comments
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I’m just back from a long weekend in Berlin and would highly recommend it as a city break.
There’s currently a great buzz about the city, as plans for next week’s Festival of Freedom to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall get underway. U2 will kick-off the celebrations tomorrow night by playing a free gig at the Brandenburg Gate. On Monday, 9th November, hundreds of thousands of people will watch the symbolic fall of the wall, as over 1,000 giant dominos, erected along a section of the strip that once divided East and West Germany, are toppled.
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04/11/2009 – 21:16 No Comments
