Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

So, this last Sunday was Men’s day at Kiruani TAG.   It seems the men were jealous the women got their own day, so they wanted one too (don’t know that just assuming).   The head teacher, Fredy, at the school was delivering the sermon and I had to do all the typing and printing for the men participating.   Some differences between the Women’s day and the Men’s day.   The men decorated the church with streamers and balloons which were hung so low every time they danced in, they had to lift them over their heads.   In addition, they were flittering about, and my camera kept picking them up as the thing to focus on (smart phone camera not real camera).   The beginning was a little more (not much) disarrayed than the Women’s.   It had also been raining a lot this month, so the solar power system did not have any electricity and they had to delay for 15 minutes while they got a generator and wired it up. This was so they could use the microphones and...

Side Note for those that asked:  The road was better when I went out last Monday afternoon but was under water again this morning as I came in.  Fortunately I had more time to prep for it so I took my shoes and socks off and rolled up my pants so I am not squishing around Moshi today. Recently I got a chance to watch some of “The Great Courses” videos and was very excited about learning from some of the National Geographic photographers.   Disappointed does not seem adequate of a word to describe my feelings after watching the first four lessons.   It is less about understanding how to take better photographs of the world at large and more about how egotistical elitist most of them are.   Fortunately, I had a backup plan called YouTube.   I downloaded some of the 5 to 15-minute talks about landscape photography and frame composition and I learned more than I did for the “The Great Course.”     Sunset over the ridgeline behind the school....