Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

As you can see above I am still tinkering with the new camera filter settings and trying some different things out to see if I can get some cool sunset photos. It has been a long time since I have put up a blog on the tiny house adventure here in Tanzania.  I wanted to jump back into things but work on the site has kept me busy as has the new requirements on residence permits here in Tanzania.  Just to give everyone a heads up about a current need for prayer, they changed the residence permit to require a work permit to go along with it even if you are not doing any "work" like doctoring, teaching or running a business.  In the past I had a simple residence permit for a missionary and that was all I needed.  Unfortunately they created a new website with all this information without updating the current residence permit site so as I was preparing off that site I knew nothing about the new requirements.  We have submitted for the new work permit which I hav...

The above picture is of the same baobab tree along my walking route in the village.  I had to get a new main camera as my tough camera had an electrical problem last year that will cost too much to get fixed-more than I paid for the new camera.  I am still getting used to some of the differences between Olympus shooting modes and Nikon shooting modes.  For example with the Olympus I could set dramatic and it would highlight a color and make it more dramatic.  On the Nikon I choose a color I want it to filter for in the photos.  This is great for those who can see colors and would know what to filter for to get the best picture.  In the end though it is all about perspective.  As an engineer and most science related fields, I think about perspective a lot.  For example how fast something is going is relative to the perspective of my standing still or my being in a moving car traveling in the same direction or even in the other direction. ...

Today is my first day to teach at the preschool.  The kids are between ages 4 and 7.  We have 68 enrolled this year.  I am going to show them an educational cartoon about counting to 10 created by Akili and Me . The numbers in Kiswahili go 1-moja, 2-mbili, 3-tatu, 4-nne, 5-tano, 6-sita, 7-saba, 8-nane, 9-tisa, 10-kumi.  A mission team last year installed the solar power system in the school building and I am borrow a tv to show the cartoons that I download from YouTube when in town.  This will be the first time most of these kids have seen a video much less a cartoon.   After the cartoon and the other teachers constantly moving the kids around for a better view (it is 68 kids and one 24" TV), I taught a lesson on the numbers.  Basically I wanted them to count each number different ways.  Show me 4 fingers on one hand.  Draw 7 circles on a sheet of paper.  Get in groups of 5.  We did these type activities mixing in crafts, b...