I have always been a big fan of the DIY type shows and it nearly became an addiction while I was recovering from heart surgery. While I was home during Christmas last year, my parents had recorded an entire season of Tiny House Nation on the FYI Network for my brother. I enjoyed them not…
Announcing our new announcement board ;-)
This week was a little slower than the last couple. Mostly due the fact I only paint the pre-school exterior after school is out for the day so after lunch (my lunch at noon not the Tanzania lunch at 3 PM). This week I had a DIY type project. Yes I know I am doing…
A building with a history of faith
Barnabas at the new blackboard Friday we had a small re-dedication service with the pastor and members of the church that meet in our pre-school building, one of our teachers and the rest of our staff from the medical clinic and grounds. Since only one member of our staff has been present for the majority…
Happy Independence Day (in the USA)
Sorry about not posting last week but I am pretty certain no one wanted to hear the details of my stomach problems or how many times I had to go to the bathroom all week. I did get some amazing sleep in: at least two full days I barely crawled out of bed. Fortunately all…
Birthday Work Celebration
I want to thank everyone for the birthday wishes via facebook. I especially want to thank T. Welborn and my parents for the very cute cards sent via post. A lot of folks asked what I did for my birthday. Well I spent the majority of my birthday gearing up for a next stage in…
Painting the open latrine
So lately I have been painting the main latrine {called a choo here (one friend likes to point out that choo rhymes with go)} for the site. While many of our buildings are in need of paint this one was starting to show damage due to the poor quality of the paint so it was…
Getting Organized
I like things I work with to be organized. Not OCD type organization just organized so I can find things. Sometimes that can be a problem if you don’t have the tools you normally use to organize with. For example my “desk” is a bit of mess because I have nothing to put files in. …
Fixin’ things
This week I thought I would run through an account of some of the efforts to fix various things that I have encountered or some things that may need to be fixed. Let’s start with the rake from our site. Last year we bought the only form of rake you can find here in Singida…
Science is fun
One of the fun things I got to do last year was participate in the Peace Corp Volunteer’s conference for secondary school (high school) girls. This year they did a conference for boys in Singida and I was allowed to participate again. I don’t really do much at these other than walk around and smile…
I would give my entire kingdom for…
Here is a young girl who helps care for the child of one of our nurses. She is always on site with the baby strapped to her back bouncing it around and playing with it. She saw me headed out to take pictures of the site work and asked I take one of her. I…
Steve and Barnabas 