Fashion Tips

Yesterday, I got an email from my soon-to-be housemate & fellow Amani volunteer Laura in which she shared a little fashion advice: rain boots are this season’s ‘must have’. I must have missed that in the last issue of Tanzanian Vogue. Even though Dr. Jehan Raheem, who spent several years there, warned me of the rainy season and advised me to bring a slicker, I had successfully repressed this unwanted knowledge.

The rainy season in Tanzania lasts from approximately late March to late May. A friend at Amani described the annual event this way: “The rainy season is where all the dust in the air turns to mud… lots and lots of mud.” So much for Toto’s romanticized notions…