Tanzanian Experience - Hakuna Matata

The last few weeks have been quite busy and challenging even though school was in recess. Most of my time has been spent  trying to get some semblance of order into the financial records of the building which is going ahead with more speed now. Block making is progressing at the rate of 550 blocks per day but as fast as they are being made, the contractors are using them . Work had to cease for a couple of days to allow the block makers to get ahead a little and give the blocks time to cure properly. Boy's Dormitory Staff Flats We are still in Africa but we aren't sure where that is. After ordering a book online from a seller who advertises free world -wide postage and then being advised that they don't send to Africa, we are left wondering just where we really are. Needless to say the book is not forthcoming and I have a very disappointed student. The students are all back at school now. Holidays finished two weeks ago and for the last fortnight, th...

The wedding. The Saturday before last saw us leaving early for an unknown destination. We did not even know the name of the village we were going to. Kevin was appointed as driver and even though we had two teachers and the Anglican minister  with us ,we still got lost.  Just a few pictures of the countryside on the way. Sunrise over Lake Victoria The Valley as we climbed to the Village Looking out over the valley. Add cSaturday Morning market in a Village.aption After about an hour on the main highway to Dar Es Salaam , we turned off for a thirty kilometre  drive along a very narrow, winding and at times very steep road ( more like a rather wide motorbike track). The views were rather spectacular if you weren't watching the road. We had to turn around  (a feat in itself)  and go back a little as we missed the turnoff to the village. It was bush and rocks and all of a sudden you rounded a corner and came into a big clearing wit...

The last two weeks have been a time of celebrations and farewells. The first was a farewell from the ladies at the school for the Principal who was leaving and returning to Australia after a period of 4 years. This was closely followed by a staff farewell a couple of evenings later.  The students celebrated the finish of their exams and were very excited to be going home for the school holidays. Early on the Thursday morning, a fleet of dula dulas  arrived and students were farewelled and packed in to be taken to their homes. A dulda dula is usually a Toyota van of varying degrees of age and condition and carry up to 24 people in the back part of the van. They are not very safe and we avoid them. It was quite a sight to see almost 500 students being moved in this way . There was much banging and slamming of the boot door often as it was absolutely jam packed with luggage. By eleven o'clock an unusual quiet descended on the place as the last vehicle departed.  About...