Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

Ok it appears last week's post was not a big hit except with my core group of supporters. The comments I got were very encouraging but the number of reads was about half the normal. This week I will focus on some basic updates of what is going on. I will start with the biggest update-I finally have a residence permit for Tanzania after only about 6 months of paperwork.  Despite every site online describing the process and telling me it would cost $500, the paperwork came back with a receipt only showing it cost $250.  Now the fun to try and track down a receipt or reimbursement from the government for the other $300 (250 for the actual permit and 50 for the entry fee). What does this mean?  Well first of all I don’t have to go to Nairobi every ninety days anymore.  So I can take trips inside of Tanzania and look around the country a little bit more as well as cut the enormous cost of the Nairobi trips out of my budget going forward.  Those trips cost ar...

So wanted to keep getting caught up on some of my blog topics from around the time the computer was stolen.  One of them was getting to participate in a couple of celebrations. The first one was a May Day Party held the second week of September.  Apparently it is common to have a May Day party but we didn't have one.  I guess hearing about Labor Day triggered something and everyone wanted to do a makeup party at the site.  So we set one up.  I had done the birthday party for the Doctor's son that I shared with you in a previous blog and this really was not much different than that.  A goat was purchased and butchered for the big event.  From what I saw it must have been a small goat.  So they roasted the goat meat early but seemed to forget to tell me about that part so I arrived on site after they had finished with that part. Apparently only men (according to William) eat the roasted meat so the women don't eat any until it is cooked with a ste...