Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

The school is officially on a two week break that started on Monday (technically the school closed on the Friday before but normal weekend activities took place leaving me to the break activities starting on Monday).  Part of the two week break will consumed with the required trip out of country.  It really is a wonderful thing the two week break falls at almost the midpoint of the 1/2 year semester. So what do I do with the week between school closing and my going to Kenya?  I clean the school.  It is something I have been wanting to do for a while.  Let's be honest, 40+ kids age 5-8 are going leave a mess.  Most noticeably on the walls at about the 2 foot mark is a consistent discoloration in all the classrooms and the outside walls. They cannot help but but their hands out.  Unfortunately, Tanzanians typically clean the floors on a regular basis.  They sweep the ground nonstop.  But even in medical facilities they don't nor...

I thought it was time to bring back this segment of the blog now that I have been able to develop some background on many of our kids.  So I thought I would introduce you to one of the students at our school.  Seth is a young Maasai boy living near our school who most everyone who has visited our site has come into contact with.  Before I get into Barnabas' introduction of Seth, I wanted to brag a little again on the students and school in general.   We took the end of August tests during the first week of September because the school is closing for two weeks.   The school overall increased their average score by two points to 83.   It is also worth noting the Girls ruled this month with all three girls in standard 1 placing in the top three.   Pre-Unity also had girls in all of the top three spots this month.   Baby class had a girl in the top position followed by two of the boys.   So big congratulations to the girls at the schoo...

Before we get into heart of the blog this week, I am excited.  Why?  For a lot of reasons.  First I finally got my first celebrity retweet about them reading a story to our kids That’s so cool!! https://t.co/XIMSV18lnG — Katie Leclerc (@katieleclerc) August 27, 2018 So that was really nice.  Second the headmaster asked me to teach the religion class while they were singing their praise songs  It was on the Fruits of the Spirit and he wanted me to teach it because some of the words were difficult for them to pronounce.  I also got to teach Fractions to our Standard 1 class (mostly how many pieces of pie are left and so forth). This week we had Chris Pine reading Clark the Shark to the class which I in turn got to use some of that story and its lesson when talking about the Fruits of the Spirit.  Reading with Barnabas has become a big hit at the school. On to the Tiny House Tanzania episode-Bedroom The bedroom's biggest problem is wel...