Colin's Travel Blog Wisconsin, USA → Tanzania
Welcome friends and family to my travel blog. This blog serves two purposes: to let my mom know I’m still alive and to update anyone who cares on my adventures while I spend the next six month in Tanzania. I intend to post weekly, but we will see what happens... Find my latest update below.
Weeks 15-17
by Colin Quinn
Posted on May 12th, 2017 at 3:52 PM
Last night I attended my farewell party and had a great evening filled with mbuzi (goat BBQ) and friends. My time in Ifakara is wrapping up and I have begun saying my goodbyes. Even though I won’t be leaving Tanzania until the end of the month, I leave Ifakara this weekend to finish up my work in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. I am sad...
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Weeks 12-14
by Colin Quinn
Posted on April 21st, 2017 at 10:45 AM
Over the last few weeks I have been buckling down with Salum to start data collection and finish final optimization changes for the olfactometer (smelly machine). Up until a few days ago we were running daily experiments, which was a significant improvement over our past rate of once every...
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Weeks 8-11
by Colin Quinn
Posted on March 30th, 2017 at 1:09 PM
Work on my projects is going well, and in a few weeks we hope to launch two new sites. The olfactometer (smell machine) we are using for the smelly sock project is slowly becoming more functional, which means soon we can start collecting data and having people ship us their...
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Weeks 5-7
by Colin Quinn
Posted on March 5th, 2017 at 2:05 PM
This blog post will include both weeks 3 and 4. Over the past three weeks I have finished settling in and began exploring more of the surrounding area in Ifakara. I have spent most of this time working on the several projects IHI has introduced me to and they have been kept very busy. Due to...
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Week 3-4
by Colin Quinn
Posted on February 12, 2017 at 3:37 PM
This blog post will include both weeks 3 and 4. Over the past two weeks I have finished settling in and began exploring more of the surrounding area in Ifakara. I have spent most of this time working on the several projects IHI has introduced me to and they have been kept very busy. Due to...
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Week 2
by Colin Quinn
Posted on January 29, 2017 at 3:05 PM
Week two was a success. Last Monday was my first day of “real” work, but again it mostly just another day of meeting new people and touring the many different places they said I could work. I didn’t quite understand why they didn’t assign me a work place, but I wasn’t complaining that they gave me the choice of an...
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Week 1
by Colin Quinn
Posted on January 22, 2017 at 7:45 AM
Wow, what an exciting first few days it has been. I made it to Ifakara in one piece and have settled in nicely. I arrived with Samson around 9pm the night of the 19th to a surprise dinner and introduction party. I feel very welcomed and have learned the names of many new friends. Everyone has gone out of their way to ensure...
Why I'm here
by Colin Quinn
Posted on January 28, 2017 at 4:54 PM
This post is to answer why I'm 8361.861 miles away from home, and what led me here to the beautiful city of Ifakara, Tanzania. I will try to sum up how I decided living here in Ifakara for the next six months of my life in a few paragraphs, but this decision took me almost a....
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