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…
Tag: a lot of rain
Math Competition, prepping for end of year and some odds and ends
Morning Parade with Kilimanjaro peaking out between the building and the tree. I would like to apologize for missing the last two weeks. It was due to a combination of factors. My computer once again succumbed to the heat, dust and travel conditions of living in remote areas that are difficult to travel to and from…
Kids Playing, more rain, hot temperatures and interesting "safety"
This week is a little bit of an odds and end discussion as I get ready to come home while applying for a work permit again. Last year got my visa schedule out of sync with everything else meaning it is up Thursday. This trip will be a little more extended for several reasons. The…
A little different rainy season
One thing about changing locations in Tanzania, much like it would be living in a different part of the USA, is the different weather patterns. At my previous location, rainy season started late November or early December and lasted until sometime in April. Quite often during rainy season you would actually have cool nights along…
Everybody walk the dinosaur
My pardons to Was (Not Was) on the use of their song phrase but I really wanted a song title to talk about walking here. There were many to choose from Ronettes’ Walking In The Rain; Katrina and the Wave’s Walking On Sunshine; Johnny Cash’s I Walk the Line to the Bangles Walk Like an…
visits and rain
This week had a couple special moments to it. First it rained on monday. If you want to know what I mean by rain there is a video below. The noise you hear so loudly is the rain hitting the roof of my “house”.The second is a visit by long time friend and engineering colleague,…
One of those weeks
This last week is best described as just one of those weeks. I apologize in advance for some graphic wording and for this probably sounding like a complainer of blog but it is just one of those weeks-no real complaints they just happen. This was especially tough as I have this idea about a chair…
Steve and Barnabas 