{"id":215,"date":"2012-05-18T12:38:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T12:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/?p=215"},"modified":"2012-05-18T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:33:13","slug":"were-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2012\/05\/18\/were-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re in Africa!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Finally had internet at the airport, most everyone checked their email and grades. We arrived in Dar es Salaam this afternoon. It was a 5 hour plane ride \u2013 hats off to Emirates Airlines… First glance of Africa was Somalia. It did not take us a lot of time to check through security \u2013 only one lost bag. Sorry, Dr. G.My first impression of Dar was rusty metal roofed shacks all clustered together. It was a massive change from Dubai. The weather is just like being back in Alabama \u2013 hot and humid. (Dubai was 112 degrees when we got off the plane.) The lights went out momentarily while we were filling out paperwork in the airport; guess I have to get use to that. We got on the bus to take us to the hotel. Driving habits here are very interesting, not as bad as I expected, however. People just go where they want and make traffic lanes as they go. There is a lot of informal economic business going on here. At every stop there are men walking by trying to get you to buy nuts, shoes, and other random items. We stayed in a few traffic jams for a while, but finally got a room and had some dinner. (Dr. Koti\u2019s stories were great and quite inspiring.) Tomorrow we visit the University of Dar es Salaam. Looking forward to talking to some of the students and professors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally had internet at the airport, most everyone checked their email and grades. We arrived in Dar es Salaam this afternoon. It was a 5 hour plane ride \u2013 hats off to Emirates Airlines… First glance of Africa was Somalia. It did not take us a lot of time to check through security \u2013 only one lost bag. Sorry, Dr. G.My first impression of Dar was rusty metal roofed shacks all clustered together. It was a massive change from Dubai. The weather is just like being back in Alabama \u2013 hot and humid. (Dubai was 112 degrees when we got … \/\/ Read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}