I opened Donna's journal that had lain on a shelf, unopened, for
over 43 years. I was immediately transported back to 1967 the year
I met the young nursing student who would within six months become
my wife and with whom I would spend the next two years in Tanzania,
East Africa as CUSO (Canadian University Services Overseas)
volunteers; our two-year honeymoon. With little experience in love
and marriage and even less experience in our chosen professions, we
ventured out with a guitar, an accordion, our newly minted college
certificates (architecture technology and nursing) and a whole lot
of energy ready to see and experience the world. Living first in a
mud hut, then for a couple of weeks in a down-at-the heels brothel,
and finally in a flat owned and furnished by Public Works, I recall
the travails of learning to prepare meals with one pot, keeping dry
goods free from weevils, creating a Christmas tree out of a cactus
- with disastrous results for the cactus - creating a home that
soon became known as a stop-off point for volunteers, missionaries
and travellers of all backgrounds, facing the reality that I had to
change some of my personal habits if I wanted to keep the love I
had just found, and of interacting with the local police and
learning very quickly what it means to be "a minority." Much of the
story focuses on the daily challenges and small victories that each
of us enjoyed working with situations totally outside anything we
had experienced to date. With the purchase of an undependable
piki-piki (motorcycle), overcrowded slow and decrepit local buses,
and thumbs made for hitchhiking, the reefs, beaches, national
parks, mountains and plains all offered adventure and undreamt of
beauty. The story describes in detail our participation in a
hunting safari that would be impossible to do today, and, of
course, no stay in Tanzania would be complete without a climb of
Mount Kilimanjaro. The final chapters of the book highlight
reflections that we now see these two years, how they shaped our
career choices, and formed the basis for raising our four children
and our lives as a couple for these past 45 years.
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