Author Archives: dodd

Hello! My name is Maddie and I’m very excited to write to you from Zambezi Hattie and Kylie rushed off to the secondary school to make it there before school started. The rest of us started off with a lovely … Continue reading →

Good afternoon to everyone following along! We have enjoyed your comments and appreciate you keeping up with our time in Zambia.  After receiving the warmest welcome yesterday, the group woke up feeling excited for our first full day in Zambezi.  … Continue reading →

There is no photo anchoring this post. I’ve chosen to take a different sensory approach to my addition to this chorus of reflections on our time in Zambia. I’ve returned to Zambezi over half-a-dozen times, and I still remember that … Continue reading →

The break of our dawn came just a little later today, the morning of the 28th of May. Compared to rising before the sun on safari, the group took a few more moments to convalesce today before catching a taxi, … Continue reading →

Good morning to our lovely friends at home as we prepare to hit the hay back in Livingstone, My inner zoo camper heart (Yes, that’s a thing. My parents let me go each summer and I even was a camp … Continue reading →

Hello everyone!  This is Clare Cibula reporting live from outside the Basil Cafe in the Fawlty Towers Lodge. The time is 7:37 pm, and I am sitting at a table with a few fellow zags (Hattie, Grace S., Kylie) eating … Continue reading →

At 5:20am my Nintendo Wii (Hip Hop vine remix) alarm goes off. GOODMORNING for us here in Lusaka! Room 17 slowly starts waking up, climbing down their bunks and getting ready for the day ahead of us. Our bus to … Continue reading →

Hello to everyone keeping up with the GIZ blog and the thirteen of us students! We have collectively agreed that today counts as our first “real” day in Zambia. Yesterday, we were a pitiful sight with our rumpled clothing and … Continue reading →

Good Afternoon for all of you and Good Evening to us here in Lusaka! We have finally finished our initial journey, so no more planes and airports for at least a few days. Although, all our travel has already laid … Continue reading →

For those of you who’ve followed this Gonzaga-in-Zambezi blog over the years, you understand the Jesuit posture of accompaniment that animates our annual return to the town of Zambezi in Northwest Zambia. For those of you who will are seeing … Continue reading →