I am an American professor who spends much of her life in Botswana, Africa, getting to know the people and culture, then sharing it with students in the US and Africa.
I never would have predicted that this is where my life would have gone. I'm a small town girl from Western Massachusetts, who always enjoyed travel.
After getting my Master's and Ph.D. from Yale in Sociology, I moved to South Carolina and began to teach at Furman University in Greenville. I've been there, wearing a number of hats, ever since!
I met my husband, Paul, in 2007 while touring Africa for five weeks with a group of Furman students. We were married in July '08 and while an unconventional arrangement, we both feel happier than we've ever been! We make an effort to see each other as much as possible (every 6-8 weeks at least), and with our schedules we've been pretty lucky.
When I'm in Botswana we're sometimes on safari and I like to blog about those adventures among other things.
I often feel as if I have two very different lives separated by an extremely long plane flight. It always takes me a few days in either location to get my bearings and readjust.
People often ask me which place I miss most when I'm not there. The truth is, there are things I love about both locations and I always try to enjoy the best of the world I'm in while I'm there.
They also tend to ask where I got the name for the blog and full credit goes to my friend Kathy who set the blog up for me shortly after I had sent an e-mail with a photo of a muddy hyena we saw in Ngorogoro Crater, Tanzania (back in 2008).
This blog is a way to bring my adventures and photos closer to friends and family, without clogging up their email boxes.
Enjoy!
PS: If you're interested, we were interviewed in Athens (May 2011) by a documentary film marker named Eduardo Braganca. It's kind of fun and tells about the "most important decision we made that changed our lives."
Really??? WOW! Thank god for out of town guests - you increase your chances of good sitings everytime someone visits! :<)
ReplyDeleteVery true. When are you coming?
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