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…
Should Christians eliminate the word Mission from our vocabulary?
Flowers blooming at William and Martha’s after the rains From Dictionary.com is the following definition of the word Mission: 1–a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like. 2–the business with which such a group is charged. 3–any important task…
A smile is worth more than you think
Primary school kids at eyeglass distribution point-wanted picture with Twiggy the Twiga who you can barely see at the flagpole. The first time I was asked to do eyeglasses was on a medical mission trip to Panama in 2002. I was mainly along for crowd control and hauling luggage and the fact I loved…
Sifu Mungu Gari
Ok this week I want to talk about string theory in theoretical physics…Just kidding of course I am going to talk about the truck. Let’s start at the beginning of this particular set of events. Tuesday, March 9 I get a text from William about he has found a vehicle can I come to Arusha. …
Steve and Barnabas 