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….
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…
I am coming home, but I have toilet paper!!!!
First I hope and pray everyone is safe. The Corona Virus continues to dominate my news feed and Facebook wall. From humor to apocalyptic predictions it is all there seems to be to talk about right now. While I have tried to post things on Facebook not related to the virus or at least somewhat tongue…
The world is under a self quarantine. What is a Christian to do?
This is Mery’s bible story book she got a year and a half ago. She has worn the cover and several pages off of it in that time. During times like this it is good to make sure we spend time daily reading the Bible and communicating with God. While it is ok to be…
Teaching the 3 Rs
As soon as I wrote that title I realized I would have to differentiate from what I mean and Reading, ‘ritin and ‘rithmatic version of the 3 Rs. I am talking about the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle version. No this is not going to be a change your whole to life to no plastics and…
February Top Students and Prayer Requests
We have just wrapped up February’s monthly testing and awarded top student honors. I want to share those with you and then I will go into some prayer requests for the site and the country. From the Baby Class we had a tie at first place between Ramadhan (left) and Ibrahim. Also in Baby class…
What do you do when it is really hot and you have no a/c-it is not what you think
So temperatures here continue to be in the 90s with high humidity though we have not had any rain this week. As I mentioned before I am forgoing the refrigerator so I can have power for the fan at night. Yes I understand the physics of a fan blowing hot air around but moving hot air…
We have already started testing for the year!
While I will be the first to say testing is not always the best method of determining how someone is doing in school, I also recognize that it is difficult to change a culture that only understands testing. Testing is a time consuming process that takes up a half a week of classroom time every…
Steve and Barnabas 