Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

Morning Parade with Kilimanjaro peaking out between the building and the tree. I would like to apologize for missing the last two weeks.  It was due to a combination of factors.  My computer once again succumbed to the heat, dust and travel conditions of living in remote areas that are difficult to travel to and from on a weekly basis.  I am using a computer that is based on Windows 8 so everything is different.  Now add the fact that the school needs the end of year student report in a completely different set up from the previous letters.  So different in fact that I had to reprogram all the database functions to create the data they wanted.  They delivered their end of year tests to me four days late and still expected me to produce them by Monday despite the fact no one was willing to come in on a Saturday to review them (they actually tried to tell me it was against the law in Tanzania for teacher to work on Saturday).   Add to all...

Last week I told you about finishing up the spelling competition with our students.   This last week we started the math competition with the Baby and Middle Class which mainly consisted of counting shapes on the television screen in a timed PowerPoint presentation.   I have three more weeks of math competitions (a week for each of the remaining classes) and then I will give you a full report on how that went.   This week we finished our end of month testing for October.   Top Students (Left to right--Baby Class, Middle Class, Pre-Unity Class, Standard 2 and Standard 1) While many of the names are the same, they sometimes happen in a different order.   As is normal, when we near the end of the year it seems to be all about the girls in Standard 1 and Standard 2 classes.   Gladness, Teresia and Grace (the only girls in our Standard 2 class because it is our smallest class) took the top three spots.   For those that have been following Obed’s r...