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Month: April 2014

My Africa Diaries: Comfort in Food

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Cheryl

Most travelers will tell you that many of their memories are made at a dining table or roadside stand with food in their hand. It’s impossible to separate travel from the food we consume. When you’re on another continent, that experience is

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Biography, Travel Africa

My Africa Diaries: The Final Sprint

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Cheryl

Kenyans are renowned for their sprinting abilities… in stark contrast to my own physical proclivities. But I did my own form of sprinting today, with a back to back day on the heels of a successful Thursday. Thursday: Gaming, psychology, and the

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Biography, Design, Technology, Travel, Work Africa

My Africa Diaries: Swahili for Westerners

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Cheryl

Kenya is most definitely a deeply multilingual community – though they’ve embraced English as a national language due to their colonial heritage, they still boast Swahili as the national language. Residents comfortably switch between the two when speaking with each other. Most

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Biography, Travel Africa

My Africa Diaries: Working at iHub

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Cheryl

The primary reason I’m in Africa is as a volunteer for the Microsoft4Afrika program. One part of their outreach is to match professionals from Microsoft with identified technology needs in African countries. Many of the assignments are either teaching advanced skills or

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Biography, Design, Travel, Work Africa, MySkills4Afrika

My Africa Diaries: The Little Things

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Cheryl

My first full day in Nairobi, as with any first visit to a foreign country, was full of little observations – the similarities and the differences. The Bathrooms Public bathrooms all have ceiling-to-floor doors. I’ve only ever seen them this widespread on

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Biography, Technology, Travel Africa, MySkills4Afrika

My Africa Diaries: The Journey Out

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Cheryl

It’s my first full day in Nairobi today, which means that I’m just 12 hours off of my longest travel stretch ever. The journey to Nairobi required a 10-hour flight to Amsterdam, a 3+ hour layover, a 1-hour flight delay on the

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Biography, Travel Africa

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