These last couple of weeks have been full of adventures for myself, Barnabas Bear and my family visiting from the states. I met up with them in Istanbul, Turkey for a couple of days before we flew over to Nairobi, Kenya then drove to Arusha taking in a Safari along the way. In Arusha, we…
Tag: Singida
Peace Corp Volunteer Girls Conference
Got the opportunity to particpate in the Girl’s Conference put on by some of the Peace Corp volunteers. They did a four day event in Singida, housing and feeding the girls from I think 6 different secondary schools in rural areas for a total of about 30 girls with the purpose to empower them. They…
What makes for a good week in Tanzania
I got back in Singida around noon on Thursday local time and meant to get right on a blog entry that afternoon. But have you ever stared at a blank page with so much to say at one moment and no clue how to condense it all down to one writing or where to start….
How Things Change
My first short term mission trip to the Yulansoni valley was in 2001. A lot of things are still the same in the Singida and Yulansoni area, but a lot are different. I thought I would spend a blog exploring some of those items and some of the things that surprised me that are the…
Unfortunately this is not a new record!
My favorite Sunset photo of week. It is unfortunate but I have to say my second visit to the hospital in a month is not a record. I wish it was but let’s be honest I led a life that leads to hospital visits. Never thought I would be doing it in the mission field…
It had to happen-first Hospital Visit
I am going to cover two parts of this out of context because I want to bring in the positive items first then we will deal with the less fun activities. The first good activity for me is that my blood sugar was really low this morning-low enough I treated myself to a chocolate bar…
Videos, Visitors and Care Packages Oh My!
It has been some happening weeks here in Tanzania since my return or more importantly the return of my laptop from Nairobi. After getting a week behind in my work with the repair of my laptop and then the trials and tribulations in getting it back in my hands, I had to spend a large…
Doing Business in Tanzania-a Post Office Example
Just finished a month of activity trying to get a post office box in Singida-well almost finished. This is a pretty good example concerning some of the difficulties in doing business here. So I wanted to get a post office box here in town. The first thing I checked was if I could use the…
Learning a Language-I promise this did not start as a gripe session
Ok this was a blog I was holding off on as long as possible hoping that God would answer my prayers in an overwhelming positive (for me) fashion. But apparently He really wants me to work to learn this-Kiswahili. I have spent hours every day working through my grammar books and dictionaries. I have created…
Barnabas March 2014 Newsletter
This one is going to be very different. Because Blogger will not allow me to post a PDF file, I had to do this kind of weird. So Barnabas’ newsletter is on Facebook in two image files. I am posting the main article here but if you would like the count in Kiswahili, games and…
Steve and Barnabas 