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		<title>Research at Haydom Lutheran Hospital in Manyara, Tanzania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Colleagues, Friends and Family, I am writing to share the news that I have signed a 2-year contract to work as a research and data management consultant with Haydom Lutheran Hospital (www.haydom.no) in rural, northern Tanzania. Since coming to Tanzania in 2006 as a Biology and Health Education volunteer with the United States Peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolfgang&#8217;s English Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Wolfgang asked me some time back if he could distribute entries from this blog to his English class in Germany. Having planned a lesson on American volunteerism, he considered my Tanzania-inspired cultural vignettes as ample fodder for language practice. Naturally predisposed to literary exhibitionism as every blogger must be, I of course agreed. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshualevens.com/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Solar Eclipse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not recommended to look directly at a solar eclipse. Neither is it recommended to consume saturated fats, eat with your hands out of a communal bowl, or ride a bike through the streets of Dar-es-Salaam during rush hour. Initially, I was prepared for exclusively appropriate eclipse viewing. I placed a piece of white [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshualevens.com/?p=76</link>
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		<title>Rites of Passing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first experience with death in Tanzania occurred about two months into my Peace Corps training in Morogoro. A woman who cooked lunches for our language training group at Kihonda Secondary had lost her young son to malaria. Our language teacher Petronella (Petti for short) moved ahead in the lesson plan and took us to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshualevens.com/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Rites of Passage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Kongwa, it&#8217;s the time of the year when girls and boys are ushered into adulthood. Drums, whistles and songs can be heard at all hours as everyone practices and celebrates for the festivities to come. Despite how brown and dusty everything has gotten, everyone&#8217;s in a good mood. The rains have long finished, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Doctor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I met the nicest witchdoctor last week. I was spending the day in one of our study villages, supervising village health workers, biking around to points of interest and taking GPS coordinates. It started out as a joke when Steve Schachterle and I agreed to write a paper on “Distance to Witchdoctor” as part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshualevens.com/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Corporal Punishment in the Tanzanian Educational System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although nearly ubiquitous throughout Tanzanian schools, corporal punishment is a demonstrable failure. Even if one were to discount its blows to student self-respect and human rights, corporal punishment quite simply fails even in the simple task of deterrence. Discipline problems are usually in direct proportion to the amount and quality of teacher supervision. Too often, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshualevens.com/?p=69</link>
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		<title>Return to Tanzania: Medical Research Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear colleagues, friends and family, It has been over two months since completing my service with the United States Peace Corps. To those of you I got to meet and reconnect with in Baltimore, Denver and Tampa during the month of December, it was truly a pleasure, though all too short. To those of you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshualevens.com/?p=68</link>
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		<title>My Last Week at UL Secondary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I sit down to write my final blog entry at UL Secondary as an education volunteer with the United States Peace Corps in Tanzania, I still have tears in my eyes. I have never felt so proud. I am sitting in my school library which, thanks to the donations of many who are hopefully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshualevens.com/?p=67</link>
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		<title>Salad Days at UL Secondary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Saving the world one garden at a time,” is how Peace Corps Tanzania’s permaculture guru Peter Jenson describes his environmental mission. For a busy education volunteer teaching 450 students during 28 periods per week, such a mantra can be comforting. Only one garden and I can help save the world?! After all, as a teacher, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshualevens.com/?p=66</link>
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