10/24/2022 0 Comments Jambo bwana original![]() Life lesson #7: There will always be tougher days in life, mentally or physically. The 800m running test I had for six years in middle school, the first few days of Kili climbing, the migraine I used to have in life…none of these could be compared. ![]() The summit day was definitely the physically toughest day in my life. Then there came so many times that I regretted and wanted to give up. How could I quit just in front of it? I didn’t even think and pushed him to lead us to go. So the instant noodle got stuck in my stomach and made me want to vomit.īefore we went on the last march, the guide asked me twice if I would still want to do this. ![]() I ate a lot but forgot to consider that at high altitude, the digest system works slowly. My teammate gave me a bag of tomato flavored instant noodle, and the smell made me want to eat. I lost my appetite starting from Day 3 due to mountain sickness. While my teammates were sleeping for two hours after dinner, I was fully awake in my sleeping bad and suffering from stomachache. Life lesson #6: Always be prepared for something more challenging. So it wasn’t planned by us to have the summit on Christmas day… However, before I was well seated in the tent, our guide told us to eat well and get some rest as much as we could, because we would start our summit at 11pm tonight. I thought we would stay at the base camp for one day for better adaptation to the altitude by going short trips up and downs. My not reading the material before the trip gave me another surprise. We met some amazing and respectable entrepreneurs there: a local couple running a crop processing factory that hires local people and sells the products to other parts of Tanzania An engineer from the UK who invents tools to make farmers’ life and work more efficient An MIT graduate whose startup produces solar chargers…Even though the working environment in Arusha is tough, and they have to deal with issues like power cut pretty frequently, they are still so devoted to what they are doing.Īt 4600m of Kilimanjaro base camp on Dec 24th, 2013 ![]() Arusha is a small town and with fewer people. On Dec 19th, we headed to Arusha to interview three more social entrepreneurs. However, all of them show great patience and gratitude towards the life there and I could feel that they are really passionate about doing something valuable to local people. We were a bit bothered by the traffic and other inconvenience in Dar. They are dedicated and down-to-the-earth. We spent four more days in Dar and interviewed many interesting founders of local social enterprises. It is like heaven! The real view is much better than whatever pictures you can find on the internet! The place near the pier is stone town and it took a while to get to the beach. On Dec 14th, we went to Zanzibar by ferry. Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania and an incredibly beautiful place. We were lucky to have a social enterprise there, which gave us the excuse to tour around the island. It will work out in the end.Īfter interviewing two entrepreneurs, we took a weekend trip to Zanzibar for a company visit. Life lesson #1: When things are not getting better even after you’ve tried hard, reflect on the direction and the strategies, and keep trying. After the airport heard someone talking to them in Swahili, they started to track the luggage and it was sent to us in the afternoon. The breakthrough came when we found a very kind hotel manager and we begged her to speak to the airport. ![]() JAMBO BWANA ORIGINAL PLUSWe were quite worried as the malaria pills were in the luggage, plus all the gears needed for the mountaineering. People were reluctant to help and said that losing luggage is really common. One teammate lost her luggage, and it took us lots of efforts to find it back - we called two airlines more than ten times, called our school at least two times, and called airport in Ethiopia and Dar several times. The first two days in Dar were a bit tough. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Dec 13th, 2013 ![]()
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