Oh you mean Africa?

A quick pre-trip update for anyone who was wondering, as I was when we started planning this trip: "where exactly is Tanzania? "  Tanzania is in east Africa, on the Indian Ocean.  It is also very close to the equator, which means it is warm year-round.  We will be there for the rainy season, so it will be warm and humid.

We will spend most of our 4.5 weeks in Moshi, a medium-sized city in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. We will be working at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre: http://www.kcmc.ac.tz

I've been busy preparing for the trip, including calling my bank and credit card company to let them know I'll be traveling. Multiple times with multiple different people the conversation has gone like this:

Me: I just wanted yo let you know I'll be traveling to Tanzania for 5 weeks.
Agent: where?
Me: Tanzania. A country in east Africa.
Agent: oh, you mean Africa.

I've been refraining from reiterating that I did, in fact, mean Tanzania. But I hope my credit card activity still gets flagged for unusual activity in other African nations, and that I didn't inadvertently set myself up for credit card fraud because the person answering the phone at Wells Fargo is confused by non-U.S. geography!