Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

Last week I put out a couple of questions and some beginning of projects so I wanted to follow up.  First the above picture is from a friend's balcony who lives in Kinampanda which is along the ridge line before you drive into the valley where I live.  This is her view overlooking said valley.  I had to visit Kinampanda with work this week so stopped in to see her after I heard she got stung by a bee again and missed a day of teaching.   Next the answers to the questions that frankly I was shocked no one even ventured a guess about.  All my engineering and creative friends and no one guess!  I guess I should offered something more than imaginary or useless points but since they do it on Whose Line is it Anyway I thought I could get away with it. Why does we need to add more water here to get the same workability or mix strength as we would say in South Carolina or even Peru?  The answer has to do with the dryness here but specifically the fact i...

Hello everyone,  it has been a while since I could get internet and power at the same time and therefore it has been three weeks since I wrote a blog.  That means this one is going to be long.  Thought about breaking it out but every time I do that one blog gets a lot of attention and the other gets very little. Christmas Staff party Things that I hope to remember to cover: Feelings about this last week in Tanzania Work Done on Site Living inside the new house Building Furniture Eyeglass Program Graduating Kids from the Pre-school Barnabas Injury Report/Update Thanksgiving with Friends Christmas Party at the Site Nduguti Crochet Class Feelings about this last week in Tanzania Going into this I realized I would have split feelings over my life in Tanzania and my life in the USA but that has not been as much of the case as I thought it would be.  While I have made some friends here and couple that are good friendships it does not really compare yet ...