In honor of Kent a new good blogging friend and proud parent/grandparent of a tenant family currently at the campsite, I’m posting this 16+ minute video tour of the Riverside Campsite in Iringa, Tanzania. This is where we attended Swahili language school and I filmed this in early November last year.  You can even [...]

This is video of water from the shower in our banda in Africa.  You’ll see me fill up a bucket in a dim-lit bathroom then carry it outside so you can see it better.                                 

A couple of nights ago, I was walking to the other side of the campsite to help a fella out with his computer. Along the road is this tree:

Appropriately named a Sausage Tree because of these:

There are quite a few of these sausages hanging from the tree and they are heavy.  My guess is around [...]

I had no idea my brain could function the way it has over the past 3 weeks.  So much information for such a small mind as mine!!!
Dana is leveling out morning sickness wise.  Not sure if it is because of the vitamin B complex or the surpassing the 1st trimester mark.  Either way, she’s now [...]

A challenge?  You bet but it is worth it.  We can communicate on a basic level now which takes away SO much frustration.
This is Dana enjoying (what’s up with that?) her Swahili homework.

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As fast as they can go, there are quite a few pictures uploading from our week and a half of orientation.  I have limited time (and data transfer) in the internet cafe here in Iringa.  Kind of a last minute trip to town that I jumped in on.
But, there are a lot of great shots [...]

I was lying in bed last night watching The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and noticed at one point how I again ’slipped’ out of Africa.  When I realized what I was doing and in fact that I was really falling asleep at a Swahili language school somewhere deep in Africa, [...]

Things are hard as we are now living in one of the tent bandas. It is basically one of those army tents under a thatch shelter. Cool thing about it is (versus the tents of others) that we only have one small hole at the bottom of the entrance through which mice and [...]