Well 2024 has gotten off to a very fast start at Tumaini (Hope) Evangelistic Pre & Primary School in Kiruani, Tanzania. Before the school opened for the year we had 285 students registered and had to stop accepting new students to prevent overcrowding in the classrooms. This was roughly 15 more students than we expected…
Tag: 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…
Weird Weather again and Lily reads to our kids.
This week we encountered some strange weather. After a couple of weeks hitting into the 100s the weather broke Monday afternoon in a strange wind storm that made visibility about 5 feet due to the sand storms. Overnight it started to rain and by the next morning the temperature had dropped to the 50s where…
Mvua-Rain
It is rainy season here in the valley. It will continue until sometime in April. When I first got back this year, everyone was talking about it being a drought. Granted they had not had the normal rains in about a month it appeared. But since I have been back they have gotten some great…
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,…
What I will not write about this week-any guesses?
What oh what should I write about this week. I know what I don’t want to write about because I have spent so much time trying to explain the election system, media, why people are rioting and why it is wrong that I am exhausted from the conversation. Yesterday was Veterans day. It was…
Dry season
I once again find myself struggling with a blog topic that I has all my research completed and enough pictures to keep my wonderful audience returning. I have a couple of items I need to put on record before we move on to the topic today. First up: I will be making my yearly stateside…
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…
October gets weird
Was not sure what to actually title this post as I am probably going to ramble a little bit as I have lots of little things on my mind at the moment and I am too tired to try and sort them out. So see if you can keep up with the direction changes.Those who…
Puppies and Rain
Rain I have always loved rain for as long as I can remember. There were a couple of times in the military where it rained so long and so hard you would think I would have learned to hate it but it only reinforced my love of rain no matter how much or long I…
Steve and Barnabas 