We are ending our 1st Semester Term for 2023. The date for the end of the 1st semester moved from June 16 to May 31st for some reason. That means my flight out is not until June 19 because I planned to be here until the end of the semester. We have a lot going…

Yes, I have been back in Tanzania for several weeks. No I have not posted a blog during that time. A lot goes on when you first get back and I find the older I get the harder it is to catch up with it all. So I will be doing another large blog with…

Everyone seemed to love the selfies I posted in a blog. I have been working on getting some more. One interesting issue that developed was one of the young students in Baby or Middle Preschool, so he speaks almost no English yet and very little Kiswahili just his tribal and very little of that, kept…

I have covered the events of the local church celebrating International Women’s day in the past, hence my year stamping this blog title. The overall event was similar in nature to the past with many small skits, singing or testimonies accompanied by the women all getting up going outside to dance in to their seat…

One of the tasks I have here, especially since I got the car, is to visit other private schools here in Tanzania. I do this for a variety of reasons. To learn how they do things, their teaching resources, how they find teachers, how they deal with problems like the bats. One thing that normally…

Let me start by explaining. Those that really know me are familiar with the fact I am not a selfie fan. I will take one of a family thing or of a missionary team, but I hate taking pictures on myself just to take a picture by myself. I have gotten used to occasionally taking…

Yep that is correct this marks the beginning of my 6th full year with the Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School and my 10th year in Tanzania. A lot has happened over the years and I will most likely take some time this year to reflect of some of those events. The school is going…

Yes, 2022 was another chaotic year dealing with elements of a world still in turmoil of COVID, Russia invading the Ukraine, Inflation, Fuel and Food shortages around the world because various issues and a census in Tanzania. Like the world around it, our school had a lot going on. Fortunately, we did it more civilly…

We officially closed the school for the 2022 school year on December 8 because the 9th is a their independence day and a national holiday. As with previous years the Christmas gift story starts sometime around October when we first start pricing items and getting the budget ready. This was the year that the Tanzania…

So the school wanted to do a preschool graduation this year. Imagine a normal preschool graduation with 3 to 4 more hours of dancing and skits and teachers interjecting themselves because they want the attention. The district educational government figure head was present and gave a graduation speech much better suited to someone graduation from…