I am going to be honest, Ebenzery is hard to write about. There is a lot to talk about with Ebenzery so that is not the problem. It is difficult to truly tell you about Ebenzery without addressing what would be described in most developed countries as a learning/development challenge. You see Ebenzery is in…

Sajida (pronounced Sah-gee-dah) is a very sweet young girl in our middle preschool class who started last year in the baby class. She is not known for showing her emotions very much. Almost every picture and mental memory I have of her is similar to the one to the left of this text. She does…

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…

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…

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…

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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