Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

This was another full week on site.  I had planned to head out early Monday morning but they sent an order for medicines in by text so I had to wait until the pharmacy opened Monday morning to go buy those items.  After getting the items and stopping to buy some bread for meals I was on the Noah bus (named because most of them are Toyota Noah minivans).  Once again we had to wait until we had a full load so it was about 40 minutes before it took off.  At the drop off in Katusha they tried to charge me for my backpack this time since I had other bags.  Argument lasted about 10 minutes with me not paying them anything before getting on the Piki Piki (motorcycle) headed out to the village.  So after the medicine delay, waiting on the bus to fill up and 3 hours of actual travel time it was around noon when I arrived. I had planned to jump right on painting the inside of the main cistern tank.  However, it had rained again.  So the first thing I had ...

This has been a full week and many things I think are worth sharing both from the standpoint of what it takes to do things here or slightly humorous. So basically this will more than likely be a long blog. As I mentioned a couple of blogs ago, I will be moving out to the site to live in the small building we have on site.  First the building needs some work and I will have to build my furniture like a bed, chairs and table.  So after getting back from Arusha and some and lots of good work there including tracking down some safety equipment and a folding 20 foot ladder, I had to get busy and start buying items not only for my house but also for the projects going on this month as money had arrived on Mpesa for me to use in getting those items purchased. The site projects I had to buy for included the Ward building's bath house and latrine which included a full variety of materials but started with inspecting the doors I had paid to have made before I left for Nair...