Jambo!!

Hey Everyone!! I'm Kaity! I'm a junior wildlife bio major at UVM. I have no experience traveling abroad so naturally I decided to start off in the bush of Africa. I figured camping in my backyard is basically the same thing, right?

My interests include hiking, camping, running, dressing up as fruit, snowboarding, and of course looking for wildlife. I'm hoping all of these skills will somehow help me survive in Africa.

 I'm so excited to be going Tanzania! I've been watching documentaries on African wildlife ever since I was little, and I am super pumped to finally see a wild elephant! I'm really looking forward to sharing these  adventures (hopefully all of them good) with Molly!

Hamjambo! (Hello)

Hey everyone! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Molly. I am a Rhode Island native and currently a junior at the University of Vermont majoring in Wildlife Biology and minoring in Geospatial Technologies. I have traveled all over the world from Australia to the Arctic Circle, but the one place that I have always wanted to go, since as long as I can remember, is Africa.

Pure excitement is an understatement for how I feel about living in a field station in Tanzania for three and a half months. In high school I volunteered at the Roger Williams Park Zoo with the African animals so I am most anxious to see the species that I worked with in captivity, in their natural habitats. I think i might pass out when I see any of the big cats so I'll try to get some pictures but I cant make any promises.

Words cannot express my excitement to be sharing this experience with Kaity Ripple, a fellow wildlife enthusiast from UVM. We will be posting to this blog as often as possible to keep everyone updated on our well being and adventures!

Mawasiliano (Communication)

Hey all,
As most of you know, we will be studying abroad this spring semester in Tanzania, Africa. We will be staying at a field station where communication to the outside world will be extremely limited. Because of this, we decided to keep a blog while we are there so that you can follow our adventures, see pictures, and know that we are still alive (you're welcome mom). We are also available by email, though internet access is extremely limited. Our emails are:

Molly Alves: maalves@uvm.edu

Kaity Ripple: kripple@uvm.edu

If you feel so inclined, we can also receive letters but they may take a couple of weeks to arrive. We ask that you DO NOT send care packages as we cannot receive them. In any case, our address at the field station is:

Student Name 

SFS Center for Wildlife Management Studies 

P.O. Box 304 

KARATU, TANZANIA 

East Africa