This week I want to introduce you to Angel. Sometimes spelled Angela but she prefers to be called Angel. I also referenced her as number one. When we have multiple students with the same name, the students refer to them with a number based on when they got there. I am not sure what is…
Month: April 2020
Meet our Students: Gift
You can click on the photos above to view them in a larger scale. This post will be about Gift which is pronounced Gifty. In Kiswahili speaking countries, all english words that end with certain consonants like t or d the final letter is pronounced as a separate hard syllable. So Gift is pronounced Gif–T…
Meet our Students: Grace
This is a fun week at the school despite the fact it is still closed. New Playground equipment is being installed thanks to a generous donation from Mauldin UMC Men’s Fellowship. I also need to acknowledge the first photo in the collage of a very young grace on the left was taken by someone else,…
Meet our Students: Wolter
Welcome back to our new feature about meeting our students. Before I get into introducing you to Wolter, I want to give you an update on what is going on in Tanzania and specifically our school. Tanzania is reporting 32 cases of Covid-19 which is up from 12 when I left just shy of two…
Meet our Students: Beatrice
The votes are in and counted (It was not hard since there were only 7 votes). The overwhelming winners were stories about the students/teachers and the open forum for my fictional writing. We are going to start off with stories about students. I put a group of names into a basket and drew one out….
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Travel Stories in a Pandemic and dealing with Quarantine
I thought you might like to hear some of the stories from my travel home during the middle of a global pandemic. Some of you may have seen some of the photos on my facebook feed, but I have some more that did not make that feed. I am also going to talk about what…
Steve and Barnabas 