So I promised some follow up to items mentioned in my last blog but unfortunately the internet service has been very weak lately and I have not been able to follow up on that. So here is the first one and I will get the second one out when I return from this trip to…
Tag: Yulansoni
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….
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…
A second visit from the states
Had a second visitor from the USA this weekend. Rob Schadt with http://www.pommernvillagechoir.org and http://www.soul-lit.com (spiritual poetry) came for a quick visit (arrived Saturday and left Monday morning). This was interesting for me because William is stateside for his daughter’s graduation from Wofford, so this was the first visit I was responsible for. Fortunately almost…
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…
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…
Communication and Banking
Before I get started on this week’s blog entry, let me thank everyone who helped make the first Barnabas Bear Newsletter a huge success. I am hearing stories of a Chick-Fil-A in New York that printed the newsletter at their cost and gave it to customers purchasing a kid’s meal. Another story from California is…
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…
Some Random Musings
As I am two days late with this blog and part of that is due to falling sick to some very small sardine like fish in a soup that was absolutely no fun while traveling from Yulansoni to Singida and then a day later to Arusha, I am not doing a normal blog but instead…
Steve and Barnabas 