I have made it back to the school and through my travels and now in the village the question I would ask myself if I did not know what was going on in the rest of the world–What Coronavirus? No one here wears a mask. While the church still is putting a couple of feet…
I am back at the school and happy to be here
I have returned to Tumaini (Hope) Evangelistic Pre & Primary School in Kiruani, Tanzani. It has been an interesting year for everyone. After having to return to the USA on the last KLM flight out and documenting the ghost town appearance of the airports, I spent 5 months at home. I learned how to do…
Meet our Students: Bryton
Bryton is the name drawn for this week’s blog. He is around 4 years old, healthy happy kid. He runs in the pack of young ones like Princess, Joan and Ebenzery who are difficult to get to sit down for more than a minute or two which is common at that age. While it is…
I am going to put this in the I am too old for this column
So I had a fun first part of the week and thought I would share it to break up all the meet the student stories. My parents have a rental house in Gatlinburg TN. We took a trip up in April and dad showed me this boulder that is at the top of the very…
Meet our Students: Gladness
This week I want to introduce you to Gladness, however if you read my blogs with any frequency you have met her at some point. She has maintained top position in the three years she has been part of our standard grade classes. So I am going to tell you some things that you may…
Meet our Students: Precious
Last blog I mentioned Precious as Joan’s sister and I felt instead of having someone draw a new name out of the bag for me to blog about I would just finish her story. The picture to the left sums up Precious for the most part. When it comes to anything where she can creatively…
Meet our Students: Joan
Joan is one of our younger students at about 4 years of age. She attends with her older sister Precious who is her polar opposite in personalities. Joan is bright, sweet and hard to get to sit down unless she is about to fall asleep. Like the core group around her age, they are hard…
Meet our Students: Nasra
Today we are meeting Nasra, one of our Standard 1 students. She is another sweet young girl at our school coming from the middle area between the two main villages that provide our students. She is good about being on time for things and not being the last one to stroll in after the bell….
Meet our Students: Adam and School Reopens after Coronavirus
Yes, I know it has been several weeks since I last wrote a blog and I am sorry. Big thanks to the Gordons for allowing me to pet sit while they took a weekend trip and allow me some much needed introvert time to clear my head and get my writing juices going again. This…
Meet our Students: Mery
Mery, Mery quite contrary. I don’t know why but that always sticks in my head when I am talking about or to Mery (pronounced Mary). She is of course nothing like the nursery rhyme song which has been largely equated to dark themes of torture. She is not even really like the definition: inclined to…
Steve and Barnabas 