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Pole, Pole<\/p>\n
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STEVE CHISNELL<\/p>\n
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Model UN Advisor<\/p>\n
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26 July 2018<\/p>\n
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A country of wood, aluminum, and diesel.<\/em><\/span> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Post Pt 2″ _builder_version=”3.10.2″ text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_text_color=”#363636″ text_font_size=”20″ text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” text_line_height=”1.4em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” max_width=”620px” custom_margin=”60px||0px|” custom_margin_tablet=”40px||0px|” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|tablet” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n When we left the airport just before 6 am, dawn was just arriving. Cinderblock and mudbrick buildings defined themselves from the van windows, along with the motorbikes and quiet movements of the local population, some in sweatshirts, some in colorful hijabs. <\/span><\/p>\n And then through the too-seldom-parted clouds of this late rainy season, Kili\u2019s silhouette drew itself against the horizon. <\/span><\/p>\n Tanzania is a country marked by moments like this one, something iconic or mesmerizing, unremarkable to those who live here, but noteworthy inasmuch as they foster an increasingly politicized tourism industry.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_color=”#f7f7f4″ custom_padding=”0px||0px|” custom_padding_tablet=”0px||0px|” transparent_background=”off” padding_mobile=”on” prev_background_color=”#e0dbd5″ next_background_color=”#e0dbd5″][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”on” custom_width_px=”680px” use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ custom_padding=”0px||0px|” padding_mobile=”on” make_equal=”on” column_padding_mobile=”on” background_color_2=”#efefe9″ parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” _builder_version=”3.7″ background_color=”#aa7d00″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/Untitled-1-1.jpg” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.10.2″ border_width_right=”1px” border_color_right=”#aa7d00″ border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#aa7d00″ box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”-5px” box_shadow_vertical=”3px” box_shadow_blur=”22px” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” animation=”off” sticky=”on”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/Untitled-6.jpg” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.10.2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” animation=”off” sticky=”on”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Excerpt” disabled_on=”off|off|” _builder_version=”3.10.2″ text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_text_color=”#594100″ text_font_size=”24″ text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height=”1.4em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”20%|10%||10%” custom_margin_tablet=”|10%||10%” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n \u201cAway from the hostels, we will warm ourselves by fires at a convent and German mission, well-cleaned leftovers of colonial years. I am embarrassed that I find their familiar lines and paned windows comforting.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.8″ background_color=”#e0dbd5″ custom_padding=”0px|||” transparent_background=”off” padding_mobile=”on” prev_background_color=”#f7f7f4″ next_background_color=”#ffffff”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”802px” use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”4″ custom_padding=”20px|||” custom_padding_tablet=”0px|||” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” parallax_method_3=”off” parallax_method_4=”off” _builder_version=”3.10.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/Untitled-9.jpg” force_fullwidth=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|” _builder_version=”3.10.2″ border_color_all=”#826300″ border_style_all=”groove” border_width_right=”5px” border_width_bottom=”5px” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” box_shadow_blur=”11px” custom_margin=”-180px|||” custom_margin_tablet=”0px|||” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”left” animation_duration=”500ms” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” animation=”left” sticky=”off”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Post Pt 3″ _builder_version=”3.10.2″ text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_text_color=”#363636″ text_font_size=”20″ text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” text_line_height=”1.4em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” max_width=”620px” custom_margin=”60px||0px|” custom_margin_tablet=”40px||0px|” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Of Usambara clouds and cold to the bone,<\/em><\/span> We wrestle with water, coaxing a shower spigot to produce something beyond a cold wash. 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custom_margin_tablet=”40px||0px|” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|tablet” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Of overgrown trails and plastic lawn chairs,<\/em><\/span> \u201cPole, pole.\u201d My knees and thighs complain against another \u201cshort walk,\u201d an ascent that lasts two hours. The traveler sicknesses that attack each of us double-down on my own intestines, and I stay behind one morning to talk with Hassan, a Muslim Maasai. He pulls down his <\/span>shuka<\/span><\/i> to answer his cell phone. When I ask him which of these lands belong to the Maasai, he quietly confides that \u201cAll lands belong to Maasai.\u201d Politics does not interest him. <\/span><\/p>\n It is a slow morning, like each day we meet here. Across the valleys and hills of rural Tanzania, the work starts early, quietly, with these people carrying timber on bicycles, water and grains atop their heads, poverty through the villages. But there seems no want, little misery. Baba tells us that Njoro village needs clean water, and we believe him; the satellite TVs tell them all that more is to be had, but this sort of aspiration does not confess itself here.<\/span><\/p>\n Hassan reminds me that the indigenous Maasai choose their own future in this modern-ing world. They keep their dance, their pastoral lives and markets, their circumcision rites, and their celebratory slaughter of our fire-cooked goat last night, but they welcome schools and send their people to universities. They make business deals with tourist companies; they design websites. <\/span><\/p>\n In <\/span>Selling the Serengeti<\/span><\/i>, we read that the Western conceit is that the conservation of nature relies upon the removal of humans from the world of wildlife. The Maasai belie this idea, demonstrating that their lifestyle adapts to any environment. They have lived for centuries at peace with this wilderness: why should I doubt they can adapt to this new modern-ing, as well?<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” height=”60″ _builder_version=”3.2″ hide_on_mobile=”off”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” height=”70″ disabled_on=”on|on|off” _builder_version=”3.2″ hide_on_mobile=”on”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/Untitled-7.jpg” show_bottom_space=”off” align=”center” _builder_version=”3.10.2″ animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”500ms” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” animation=”fade_in” sticky=”on”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption” disabled_on=”off|off|” _builder_version=”3.10.2″ text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_text_color=”#594100″ text_font_size=”24″ 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finds its way, \u201cpole, pole.\u201d \u00a0My knees find their way up and through these hills the same way. Chaz tells me that he was watched me walk and calls me \u201cstrong.\u201d I am skeptical. I know my legs have limits, but across the weeks here I feel my own endurance grow some. How long before I agree with them that the next walk is indeed short? At its own pace, Tanzania steps into a modern (if not always Western) world. I wonder at our own unwillingness to move, to choose direction, to adapt. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.7″ background_color=”#89680c” border_width_top=”4px” border_width_bottom=”4px” prev_background_color=”#e0dbd5″ next_background_color=”#222222″][et_pb_row use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”988px” custom_padding=”27px|0px|27px|0px|false|false” column_padding_mobile=”on” parallax_method_1=”off” _builder_version=”3.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.10.2″ text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_text_color=”#363636″ text_font_size=”36″ text_font_size_tablet=”26″ text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” text_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”center” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”||70px|” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n
\nOf clay and rain and mud-slickened boots<\/em><\/span>
\nOf a thousand greens, of loam and \u201cMambo!\u201d<\/em><\/span>
\nOf bucket showers and smoke-dried clothing<\/em><\/span>
\nOf strained muscles, rice, and the Call to Prayer in Lushoto<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nOf mosquito nets and motorbike horns,<\/em><\/span>
\nOf sugar cane rum and ground millet,<\/em><\/span>
\nOf chickens, plastic trash, and chameleons<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nOf more rain and mud and rice and wind,<\/em><\/span>
\nOf cow-milking and 54 students to a classroom,<\/em><\/span>
\nOf generations stretched against tradition and future<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nOf cicadas and bush-babies, but every home a rooster,<\/em><\/span>
\nOf baboons learned to thieve the lunches of our picnics,<\/em><\/span>
\nOf leopards and lions grown bored by the idling jeeps,<\/em><\/span>
\nA country of andante and drum, of a tempo gracious and satisfied. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n