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16 februari 2015

Looking back

About one and a half years have passed since we came back from Africa… A good moment to look back. It was an intense, instructive time, challenging, frustrating, cheerful at times, filled with interesting encounters of all sorts… and much ...

Zürich - Zwitserland

16 oktober 2013

The Beauty and the Beast

These days I thought about written one of my last blogs. And actually, I want to focus most on the beauties that do exist, even in Mozambique. The past weeks were so nice. I had gone to Switzerland to start my Masters, which went well. I found work ...

Marracuene - Mozambique

20 augustus 2013

inter cultural

Seen the fact that we won’t have much time to write more blogs, I though it interesting to share some of my intercultural observations… The devil is in the detail Often, when we talk to someone here, those people don’t look at us. So I ...

Durban - Zuid-Afrika

2 augustus 2013

light at the end of the tunnel

A while ago I promised more chapters in our never ending visa story. But I think I will spare you the details. It gets boring. The brief summary could be: We still don’t have proper visa. But there is light on the other end of the tunnel. Maybe ...

Marracuene - Mozambique

8 juli 2013

Positive Post Scriptum

This is another new record: Never before I posted a new blog did follow its predecessor so soon. But Erik read my blog yesterday, and furthermore I got some reactions, which all had the bottom-line: “How terrible! What a nightmare!” While ...

Marracuene - Mozambique

7 juli 2013

6 chapters of a neverending story

I think I broke my own record not writing for 3 months. And if I was to cover all that happened in that time, you would be reading for the next couple of hours. So I will try to summarize and reflect the events. 1. Stop – Ethiopia Even though ...

Maputo - Mozambique

13 april 2013

Time flies

It has been a long time since I last wrote. It is not that there is nothing to tell. Erik came to visit me, and we travelled through Ethio. It was beautiful. As always, I planned the schedule too tight, so Erik was missing a bit of free time for ...

Bahir Dar - Ethiopië

18 maart 2013

catching up ...

Hello out there! I just realized how little I have been writing these days. Where have I stopped? Did I tell about Addis?... No, I don’t t think so. I needed to go to the Mozambican Embassy. They did not answer emails nor did they pick up ...

Bahir Dar - Ethiopië

5 maart 2013

Life in Mota

Mota The sun is coming up. I hear the singing from the nearby prison church. For “inexperienced ears” it might sound a bit like a muezzin calling for prayer. In front of my room I see the cows eating straw from the big heaps of teff grain. ...

Bahir Dar - Ethiopië

11 februari 2013

Dilemmas

A few days ago, we got a new staff member at the hospital here in Mota. Tenaw is a health-officer. Health officers have more training and responsibilities than nurses, but less than MDs. The special thing about Tenaw is that he has been trained in ...

Bahir Dar - Ethiopië

2 februari 2013

Settled in Mota

Settled in Mota After some busy days and some trouble with the internet I hope today I will be able to upload some pictures from Mota. The past days were very busy, sometimes at the ward, and sometimes socially. We had some days with quite a ...

Bahir Dar - Ethiopië

25 januari 2013

back "home"

Hello out there! Time to write another blog. We had our Christmas leave in Germany and Holland, also visiting some of the churches that have been financing the water project in Mozambique. It was a very busy time, but full of interesting ...

Bahir Dar - Ethiopië

15 december 2012

finally the cooking video

Matapa: Take 1 kilo of cassave lleaves and smash them, cook haf a kilo of cashewnuts and grind another half, cook the ungrinded cashewnuts for 2 hours, cook the leaves as well. The put leaves and nuts together and add the grinded cashew nuts. Cook a ...

Nampula - Mozambique

10 december 2012

News from Nicane

Only a few days ago I posted a blog. But these days I finally caught Isabel, our wonderful cook, making Matapa - a traditional stew with cassava leaves and cashew nuts. Therefore she grinds the leaves in a mortar and then also part of the cashew ...

Nampula - Mozambique

22 november 2012

Mozambican (Short) Stories

Sidewalk out of use! I walk on the sidewalk through Nampula. Suddenly I man in uniform and gun tells me to walk on the street. I don’t get it. Maybe it is because they are painting: the walls along the sidewalk are amazingly white. Later, from ...

Nampula - Mozambique

21 oktober 2012

from Nampula to Lilongwe via...via...via

This time I am writing from a new location: Julius Nyerere Airport in Dar E Salam. I am on my way to Lilongwe, Malawi for 2 reasons: My visa for Mozambique expires today, which means bug off. And this conveniently coincides with the Global Race ...

Nairobi - Kenia

15 september 2012

Hello and Welcome back to Nicane!

One and a half week ago we finally arrived back home with a car full of luggage and water filters for Erik’s project. The journey was beautiful, interesting, sometimes troublesome… The first day we made it to our proposed destination: ...

Itoculo - Mozambique

20 augustus 2012

Spring time, bad luck and good luck

I’ll leave out the stories about bureaucratic hassles, as they were nothing compared to other excitements we had lately. Luckily the weather is getting better and it is warmer, although it is amazingly wind. But we were told this is normal in ...

Maputo - Mozambique

12 juli 2012 | Door: AnnainAfrica

Winter weather and law-enforcement and more

This seems to be the ideal day to write another blog. As you remember, we are on the southern hemisphere, where it is winter at the moment. Mostly we assume that winter in the tropics means the part of the year where heat is bearable. But at the ...

Maputo - Mozambique

16 juni 2012 | Door: AnnainAfrica

In the big city

It is now almost 3 weeks that we are in Maputo. We were supposed to stay no more than 2 weeks, get a car and go back up north. So, we are here, but the car is not. The whole thing started when we only found very few cars suitable for our use for ...

Maputo - Mozambique

working in Africa

Africa is a fascinationg continent and I spent 2 years living (and working) there. Not always easy, new challenges everywhere. But hopefully at the and a rewarding time where I learnt a lot.

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Looking back

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The Beauty and the Beast

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inter cultural

02 Augustus 2013

light at the end of the tunnel

08 Juli 2013

Positive Post Scriptum

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Zürich - Zwitserland

Anna

Hello everybody! As most of you know, I am leaving for Ethiopia next week. I will stay there for 2,5 months and work as a midwife in a local hospital. After a short stop over in Holland/Germany I will then join my husband in Mozambique and hopefully continue my work as a midwife there. In this blog I will try to keep you up to date (as far as Internet allows it)about my activities. I know that some of you will have trouble reading English texts, but - as our family and friends are a quite international group - this is the easiest way to suite most of you. Thanks for taking an interest in my/our stories. Big Hug, Anna

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working in Africa

Looking back

The Beauty and the Beast

inter cultural

light at the end of the tunnel

Positive Post Scriptum

6 chapters of a neverending story

Time flies

catching up ...

Life in Mota

Dilemmas

Settled in Mota

back "home"

finally the cooking video

News from Nicane

Mozambican (Short) Stories

from Nampula to Lilongwe via...via...via

Hello and Welcome back to Nicane!

Spring time, bad luck and good luck

Winter weather and law-enforcement and more

In the big city

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