Pinnacle Grill Manager Jan Vesters
Jan was born in Kaatsheuvel, a small town in the south of the Netherlands. After high school he went to the hotel school in Leeuwarden and during his last year he was bitten by the travel bug and spent a year working in a hotel in Pretoria, South Africa for his internship. After a brief stay in the Netherlands he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, working at the Chateau Élan Winery and Resort as Bar Manager and Banqueting Manager. The company offered him a position as Logistics Manager at the new St. Andrews Bay Golf Resort & Spa in St. Andrews, Scotland. A keen golfer, Jan jumped at the opportunity to live and work in the “birthplace of golf”. He started as a member of the pre-opening team, his first job in a 5-star hotel that even came with a personalized hardhat! He became the Banqueting Operations Manager for the resort and oversaw several functions attended by Prince Phillip and Prince William. In 2003 he returned to the Netherlands where he became Food & Beverage Manager for a hotel in Terneuzen. After this he became Operations Manager for Catering at the Circustheater in Scheveningen, where he was involved in a major refit of the theater for the opening of the Dutch version of the musical The Lion King,. After a year he became restless again and decided to go to sea. Jan joined the ms Prinsendam almost two years ago and when he is not on the ship he enjoys playing golf, traveling, reading and, not surprisingly, dining out – for research purposes only of course!
Early history of Tanzania
In 1959, Dr. L. S. B. Leakey, a British anthropologist, discovered in northeast Tanzania the fossilized remains of what he called Homo habilis, who lived about 1.75 million years ago. By the beginning of the first millennium A.D. scattered parts of Tanzania, including the coast, were thinly populated. At this time overseas trade seems to have been carried out between the coast, northeast Africa, southwest Asia, and India. By about A.D. 900 traders from Asia and India had settled on the coast, exchanging cloth, beads, and metal goods for ivory. They also exported small numbers of Africans as slaves. By this time there were also commercial contacts with China, directly and via Sri Vijaya and India. By about 1200, Kilwa Kisiwani was a major trade center, handling gold exported from Sofala as well as ivory, beeswax and animal skins from the near interior of Tanzania. The migration of Bantu-speakers into the interior of Tanzania from the west and the south was well under way, and the population had greatly increased.
Say it in Swahili
English is an official language of Tanzania, however Swahili is spoken most commonly. There exists many different verbal dialects of the language, but written Swahili is generally universal to that of eastern Africa. It dates back over 1,000 years, and has since incorporated words from Arabic, Portuguese, Indian, German and English.
How are you? Hujambo?
Greetings Shikamoo
Greetings (response) Marahoba
I’m from… Natoka
Goodbye Kwa heri
Yes Ndiyo
No Hapana
Please Tafadhali
Thank you Asante
Excuse me Samahani
Where is…? … iko wapi?
Where’s the bathroom? Choo iko wapi
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