Our Mwangaza hosts have helped us feel very much at home with warm welcomes, clean, secure and attractive grounds, and good flavors in the meals we have shared.
Main building with offices, computer lab, and reference library.
Front of guest house, just down the hill from the campus.
Our kitchen is stocked and Mama has already prepared our oatmeal breakfasts and a couple evening meals.
Mike's camera memory card went on strike Thursday so missed capturing some amazing changes when grocery shopping in Arusha. Experienced bumper-to-bumper cars, land rovers and trucks, innumerable motorcycles on both sides of both lanes and cutting between bumpers, and of course many folks on bicycles and walking also. Seemed like every space not on a street was taken up with small stands and large wheelbarrows full of anything and everything to sell. Memory card replaced Saturday afternoon, so some pix of city scenes will come later.
One sight I would definitely have liked to capture was the "Fort Des Moines Hotel" sign. I had noticed it in previous years, but had more significance this year as Drake U. was playing American football in the stadium just across the street from the sign. Also of note, there is no such hotel here, but don't know if there may have been one once upon a time.
We met Friday morning and afternoon with the Mwangaza Management Team as they brought us up-to-date on the computer lab, information regarding the Pilot schools and personnel, and the many happenings already going on -- a group is currently receiving room and board on campus as they attend a conference on hospice care nearby. Also, Ngateu LSS (Lutheran Secondary School) teachers were scheduled for a 1-day seminar today (Saturday), led by John and Salome -- and many other activities coming soon.
At Salome's invitation, Sharon was already leading a session of writing Thank You emails Saturday afternoon in the updated computer lab -- notice the flat screens!! Since there were only 11 teachers at this particular seminar, only a limited number of you contributors will receive an email, but John's and Salome's smiles are saying Thank You also. Each of the 5 Pilot Schools received a similar computer specifically to be used by the teachers who have participated in the 2010 (and/or '11 and '12) week-long seminars for teaching, researching, and communication with Mwangaza and us in the months from July to May of the following years.
As we are just finishing this on Sunday evening, will send Monday morning -- good thing the end of the world has not yet come -- and follow with our Sunday report soon, as we enjoyed walking to Enaboishu LSS to spend our afternoon with Marieth (our 2001 partner in DeKalb and TZ) & Festo Mlay and family. What a wonderful extended family with so much appreciation for what God provides.
Peace and love,
Mike and Sharon
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