Tanzania bound
1 October 2009
By Rebecca Corey, KF9 Tanzania
I’m sitting in terminal three at 
Dubai’s International Airport. The moving sidewalk beside me sounds like horses trotting on a packed dirt road. Since my 14-hour layover began a several hours ago, I’ve heard the Islamic call-to-prayer twice over the airport intercom system, followed soon after with enticing invitations to browse the duty-free shops that run down the center of the terminal. I should be sleeping, re-setting my internal clock, but the fluorescent lights and ribbons of Arabic that stream from the ceiling won’t let me rest.
Hi, my name is Rebecca Elizabeth Yeong Ae Corey, and I am a member of the Kiva Fellows Program’s 9th class. I trained for a week in San Francisco, had two days to pack up my bags and say my goodbyes in my hometown of Athens, Georgia, and now I am headed for Tanzania. Once I get to Dar es Salaam, I will settle into a homestay and begin work at Tujijenge Tanzania, Ltd., one of Kiva’s field partner MFI’s. I’m en route. I am Tanzania bound.
Tanzania bound. This is one easy way of saying where I’m headed, my destination. But, being an English major in college and the daughter of a poet, my head immediately spins with what other meanings these words might bear.
So what does it mean to be bound?
- to move with a leap or series of leaps
- to spring back from a surface after striking it, as a ball; bounce; rebound
- confined by or as by binding; tied
- closely connected or related
- certain; sure; destined
- under compulsion; obliged legally bound to accept
- ready to go or going; headed: often with for bound for home
- Archaic ready; prepared
- a boundary; limit
- an area near, alongside, or enclosed by a boundary
out of bounds
- beyond the boundaries or limits, as of a playing field
- not to be entered or used; forbidden
Entry Filed under: Africa, All, KF9 (Kiva Fellows 9th Class), Tanzania, Tujijenge Tanzania Ltd, blogsherpa. Tags: blogsherpa, dar es salaam, KF9, Rebecca Corey, Tanzania.
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1. Sarah Forbes KF6/7/8 | 1 October 2009 at 13:45
Good luck Rebecca! Tell Rita that I say hi when you get to Tujijenge, and please get in touch with me if you need anything!
~sarah
2. ALEX | 1 October 2009 at 16:42
And I thought I had seen best side of Rebecca at training. Keep the posts coming! /ALEX
3. Heather Peters | 1 October 2009 at 17:44
Rebecca,
I think I met your parents at Jubilee Partners in Comer, GA the other week. I found your writing through a humanitarian blog link page. I lived in Tanzania a few years ago, have just come back from being in Korea, and after Jubilee will be moving to Sudan. Your parents were impressed that we seemingly have a lot in common. Good luck being bound to Tanzania.
- heather
4. Jan & John, KivaFriends | 1 October 2009 at 20:11
You have an amazing way with words. Thanks, Rebecca, for taking this leap on behalf of so many people there and here. Those of us staying at home will wait patiently for your next words and look for loans in Tanzania. Be well in your stay in Tanzania. jan
5. Nicki | 1 October 2009 at 22:36
Great post Rebecca. Safe onward travels and good luck with everything!
6. Julie P | 2 October 2009 at 15:03
14 hours?! wow. hopefully by the time you read this you’ve arrived!
7. stephanie | 7 October 2009 at 07:33
Hongera! Safari njema! Greet Rita!