Just to give you a glimpse, here is what a typical workday at the office looks like time wise:
7am - Go to work
8:30am - 8:45am - Language Team Swahili Devotion
8:45am - 10:30am - Work
10:30am - 11:00am - Chai (tea) break
11:00am - 1:00pm - Work
1:00pm - 2:00pm - Lunch
2:00pm - 4:00pm - Work
4:00pm - Head home!
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My Work Day
under: Life in Mbeya, Mission Work
Another Normal Day
8:30am - Devotion & prayer with colleagues… all in Swahili
9:00am - We notice the voltage in the office has dropped from 230V down to 190V. In case you’re wondering… that’s not good
9:45am - I bring 2 envelopes home that came from NC. Best contents from them in my eyes… hand towels and grits! Thanks y’all.
10:00am [...]
Ndege ya Karatasi
Paper Airplane
The walk between home and the office is about 12 minutes each way. I am developing a routine of coming to eat lunch with Dana and Asher. Today, Dana was away having tea and lunch with some new friends so I had to fend for myself. PB & J and a big fat carrot [...]
under: Life in Mbeya
Big Cultural Struggle for me
It appears living in a different culture is going to be more difficult than I was allowing myself to realize. Here’s the situation:
We have quite a few of our things (mainly baby items gifted to us while in the States) on a couple of pallets that were shipped air freight to Dar es Salaam. [...]
One-armed
Got Asher zonked out in my left arm so I’m pecking the keys w/ my right.
Just wanted to give a HUGE thank you to the congregation of First United Methodist Church in Conover. We had agreat time with you this morning.
I’ll fill the rest of you in on our day once I’ve got 2 hands [...]
Rapid Fire Sunday
We left the house @ 7:15am in order to make the 1+ hour trip to our home church. At the beginning of the first worship service, Asher was dedicated.
Immediately after that, we headed out to the lobby to see a bunch of our friends for the last time before we head back to TZ.
Then, [...]
under: Life in North Carolina
Riverside Campsite Tour
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 [...]
under: Africa Training, Audio/Video, Life in Iringa
January Snow Doctor
This is some video I caught of Dana, some snow, and our drive to the doctor for her 34th-week visit. This was back in mid-January of this year.
under: Audio/Video, Life in North Carolina
Water or Lipton Iced Tea?
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.
under: Africa Training, Audio/Video, Life in Iringa
School and Business Closings List
This past week we had a good winter storm come through North Carolina that left everything outside covered in beautiful white snow. Dana and I both had doctor’s appointments that day so we were pretty tuned in to the television in search of local closings. Alphabetical and slow. So, we hopped online [...]
under: Life in North Carolina
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