How do I feel about coming home?
To tell the truth, my first feelings were ones of a little disappointment. I miss home, family, and friends a lot but we’ve spent a long time preparing to get here. Finally, we’re here and as soon as we finish language school, we’re going back home. I’ve just been [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Ninasikiaje kuhusu kuja nyumbani?
under: Mental Missions
Tunakunywaje maji?
How do we drink water?
Good question. We wondered this quite a bit before coming over here. We brought our own 5-gallon bucket-style filter as well. The answer to the question is chupa nyingi za maji (many bottles of water). Since we have a small fridge in our banda and room to keep a lot, we [...]
under: Life in Iringa
Tumerudi
We have returned
We just got back today from our first safari. Our friends, the Nicholls, bought a Land Rover last week and invited us to go to Ruaha National Park with them this weekend. You betcha!
Going on a safari in Africa zaps energy out of you due to riding on the rough terrain [...]
under: Bits of Culture, Life in...
First Tanzanian Flat
We went to Mbeya again this past weekend. This time to pick up things we need to take to the States with us like diapers and such. Our friends the Nicholls told us about someone they knew who had a full-size LandCruiser and invited us to ride along when they went on Thursday. [...]
under: Life in...
Uumbaji wa Mungu
The Creation of God
I was sitting at our desk which faces the porch from the inside of the banda. Out of the corner of my eye I caught some movement in one of the trees outside. As soon as my eyes focused through the screen on the window, I couldn’t believe what I was looking [...]
under: Birding, Life in Iringa
FTP Client for Mac OS X
I searched and searched for a good FREE FTP client for me to use in uploading files to our website. I was using a program called Fetch. I like it but my two issues with it are: it doesn’t ask for confirmation in replacing files on the web server and it can’t resume [...]
under: Software
Internet Out in the Middle of Nowhere
If you’ve noticed, our e-mail response times have improved and our blog posts are more frequent. These are just two of the benefits of having internet access in our banda now. Yes, out in the middle of nowhere, we have figured out how to access the internet.
I discovered shortly after arriving in Tanzania that Celtel [...]
under: Life in Iringa
Ufagio Wetu
Our Broom
Most brooms here are sold without handles. It is not that they have a place for the handle to fit and you just have to provide your own. No. The brooms here are handheld and Tanzanians just bend over to sweep. Our banda floor can get pretty dirty if we don’t sweep it between [...]
under: Bits of Culture, Life in Iringa
Our Church in Tanzania
The truth is that we really don’t have a church right now. The closest one to us is a 40-minute walk away in a nearby village. The ferocity of the sun rules it out as a possibility because it is too harsh for my baby’s mama. So, we lean mostly on downloaded sermons [...]
under: Life in Iringa, Marital Intimacy
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