It was a beautiful morning, and unlike yesterday we saw the sunrise as we walked the kilometre from the bus to the village. I have to admit that I didn’t really know what to expect from the village … but it was really great … well worth the extra … […]
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Happy students following breakfast … can’t believe what some have tucked away! Back on the road with new estimated time of arrival of 10.40.
Had to wait 20 minutes for the coach as they had held it somewhere outside the airport … so on the road just before 8 … we have to stop for a Macdonalds breakfast or there will be a mutiny … so new ETA is about 10.30 … I’ll update […]
Finally managed to sort out the arrangements for today at half past midnight when Fred came back from meeting a friend in Dar … and then found this morning that the Catholic secretariat weren’t aware of some of the arrangements … and no Fred here as he had left at […]
Everyone was up and raring to go smack on time … breakfast was excellent … and then we were off in four landrovers. The morning was cool and fresh … my landrover sang happy birthday to Barney as we set out and then suddenly there was a hippo in a […]
Updates throughout the day today as I’m just sitting on a minibus with time on my hands … added to the blog en masse when we get WiFi later Midday update: the plan was good … breakfast at 7.30, on the road at 8.30 meaning we should be at our […]
an evening of celebration ensued … we had a lovely dinner at the hotel, accompanied by our guests from the school … a lovely buzz filled the room as our students talked to the teachers and shared experiences from the last week. Fred then took over as master of ceremonies […]
… in Swahili means ‘everything that has a beginning has an end’ … it was the closest I could get to ‘all good things must come to an end’ It was an earlier start, breakfast at 7.30 so we could be on the bus for 8.30 with our last donations, […]
Rose’s office Teaching the last classes The market and walk through Dodoma Practising our songs for the celebration
Apologies, the WiFi went down after the students went to bed, which is my time to post the blog … after some work we got the WiFi up in the morning but it wasn’t strong enough to upload the blog … I’ll try with just words and see … Our […]