Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

Hey,  this week is a week off for the school and I am traveling to meet with contractors and playground suppliers as well as doing some long awaited internet work.  So no big items to really put out there this week so I treating you to some photos I have been taking for practice.  I have a lot of birds, though most of them are about the size of my thumb and some of Kilimanjaro and some flowers that are part of the trees around our site even a cat.  Before you ask, I don't know what type of birds they are or what type of flower it is.  I hope you enjoy.   Sun about to go down over the hills behind our school We got a rainbow without the rain Head teacher's rooster that I hope is dinner soon Head teacher's hen-not sure what happened to her but she has looked like she was partially digested since  she arrived. Head teacher's paka (cat) stretches out for a nap after running all the birds away Just missed hi

We have finished our Mid-First Semester Testing and officially closed the school for their normal two week break.  There was some good and bad for the whole of the last two weeks.  First let me apologize for no blog last week as the internet was insufficient to post pictures with the blog.   We had our first set of tests printed by our new printer on site.  Though it took a bit of doing to make that happen since it took 4 black ink print cartridges to print 600+ sheets for our tests.  The printer was not expensive and the ink is fairly cheap and now I understand why.  Though we have found a place to refill the ink cartridges in Moshi so I just have to tell the HP warning about using refilled cartridges to go away every time I use the printer now. The previous week our "Reading with Barnabas" story was one of the Storyline Online stories featuring Caitl in Wachs reading the story.  Don't worry I had to look her up too.  While she is 30 years old, she is best known fo