Shortly after my mom passed away in April, my dad asked about making a safari trip to Tanzania. While dad has visited Tanzania three time prior (two mission trips and one a trip with my brother and myself) I was shocked by his request. He normally does not want to go anywhere now a days….
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2025 Graduation Day
I have been trying lately to write more to go along with the photos. I have turned to various AI engines but find they mainly add more verbiage to the descriptions I write them and therefore save me very little time. I do read them and have drawn some ideas from them. The fact that…
Rising Stars of Tumaini: A Celebration of Our Top Students
At Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School in Kiruani, every child is on a journey—a journey of discovery, learning, and growth. Today I am writing about those students who have excelled during the first exam of the 2nd Term and after their long break during June. 🌱 Baby Class – The First Steps In the…
Standard 7 Prayer Request and Introduction
We are currently in our final preparations for the Standard 7 students to take their exit exam (Officially labeled PSLE-Primary School Leaving Examination). This examination serves two purposes really. The first to determine if the students have learned the basics necessary to advance to Secondary School and the second is to help Private Secondary Schools…
Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School Explores Arusha National Park
For the third year in a row, Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School has taken a study tour (field trip in the USA). Remember your own field trips to museums or local farms to learn but to also bring alive some of the lessons from the classrooms. Field trips are important to young students to…
2025 Spelling Competiton
I am going to be honest up front. I recently read an article about using Chat GPT (yes one of those AI services) to write or help create blog content that would inspire. So I gave it a try. I gave it some specific information about our recent Spelling Competition and let it go. Overall…
Student Presentation
One difference between what I remember of USA schools and the schools here in Tanzania that I have not gone into over the years is the students being expected to speak in front of large gatherings. Every morning students are selected to give a morning speech where they have to give a short speech typically…
Alaska Vacation
Realize not all of my readers care about my vacation, but figure you can just stop at the title with no harm done. But for those that know me know I take a lot of photos and am always working on my nature photography and may enjoy some of the photos I took in one…
End of 1st Semester Top Students
It has been a busy time for me personally. The school closed up for the mid year break between semesters in early June and will reopen the second week of July. So I am finishing up my time off here after Mom’s funeral and will be heading back just before the school opens. So as…
2025 Sports Competitions
So the school recently had two days of sports competition. On the first day of competition they played two soccer (football) matches with the boys and two netball matches for the girls. In both, some members of Grade 3 joined Grade 7 to play against Grade 5 and Grade 6 played against Grade 4. In…
Steve and Barnabas 