This is a state of mind that was not familiar to me before I arrived in Tanzania. I first encountered it with Greg Maude, the Australian who was doing the EM work in Rulenge, and have often wondered if I would ever aquire such a state of mind. Today was my coming of age... The patience of a geophysicist has to be able to withstand numerous major set backs and twice as many minor annoyances whilst remaining in a reasonable and logical frame of mind, ie. not flipping loosing it! So today, we have 16 lines to complete on the current [View Full Entry]

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There are 3 factors that go into defining the term Luxury, all 3 need to be present for it to be complete luxury otherwise you're only getting a slightly sweet deal, these are: Electricity, mains and 24 hour Hot water from a tap A flushing toilet, not dug into the floor And right now, I have all 3!! :D happy joe! I have left the Twiga Beach Lodge (TBL) and I didn't look back :) We completed the survey there on Monday 21st and left on the 22nd to spend a day in Mwanza town (Mwanza also being the region I [View Full Entry]

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It has absolutely amazed all of us on how we have gotten so attached to the Howells in such a short time. Their graciousness has been unequaled on our behalf. We have all enjoyed the children individually and collectively. Now, we are all sad that we have to say goodbye in the morning. The work they are doing here and the impact on this community is just mind-boggling. Rob shared with us tonight their mission beliefs and how the work has progressed with the four churches, Bible Institute and Tumaini, the orphanage. The Lord has blessed them so much and they [View Full Entry]

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I can actually only tell you about our services here in Sweya, but Jim took lots of pictures of their overnight trip to Nyakaliro and Lusalelo. We arrived at church a little after 10:00, the starting time, but didn't really get into the church and the service started until about 10:15. We began with only about 20 of us, but swelled up to 45 to 50 by 11:30. The service was very well ordered and conducive to worship throughout the whole time of 2 hours and about 20 minutes. We had one long sermon from one of the Bible Institute students [View Full Entry]

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Today was the distribution of the soccer equipment, and it went very well. First, though, Pastor Jon & Rob zoomed off on the motorbike to complete the study on Acts. Don't miss their picture when the study was finished. Very impressive, Pastor Jon! Sorry, maybe tomorrow, I'll be able to include this picture The soccer crew, Ron Leach, Jeremy, Jordan and Nate, had to be t their first appointment at 10:00am. The rest of us were going into town to do some shopping and have lunch. So, 10 adults piled into the Landcruiser with 3 bags of soccer gear on top. [View Full Entry]

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Saturday has been another beautiful warm day. Chrissy and I decided to stay here in Mwanza and not go to Nyakaliro because it sounded a bit rough and there were already 9 people in the Landcruiser. Ella wanted to stay with us, but Jeremy and Jordan so wanted to share their parents with the people there and have them see where they spent a whole week. They left at 12:30 pm to catch a ferry that takes about an hour and then a 2 hour drive to go the other 50 miles to get there. They should have some good stories [View Full Entry]

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Today is my last day in Mwanza. It's a little sad because I have really felt at home this past three weeks here. But I AM ready for my summer to begin...which it has! Classes are all finished, tests have all been taken, and papers have all been written. I therefore will finally embark upon my summer relaxing trip with a voyage through the Serengeti and around the northern circuit of Tanzania. I cannot tell you how excited I am. Anyway, yesterday I went into town with Caitlin, Ashley Y, and Pulchery. We did some last-minute gift-shopping and purchased some snack [View Full Entry]

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Hello again, Well fancy this, I have a day off! We really pushed the survey yesterday and finshed 9 km of magnetics readings and walked a total of 12 km! So as a reward we're taking it easy at the lodge today, I am currently sitting outside under a veranda watching the world go by and drinking a beer! (a Kilimanjaro, and yes, they are all largers) So we left the Sunshine De Motel on the 13th, leaving the relative luxury of mains electricity behind us in Kahama and headed NW to the small town of Katoro. We have set up [View Full Entry]

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Today was the distribution of the soccer equipment, and it went very well. First, though, Pastor Jon & Rob zoomed off on the motorbike to complete the study on Acts. Don't miss their picture when the study was finished. Very impressive, Pastor Jon! Sorry, maybe tomorrow, I'll be able to include this picture The soccer crew, Ron Leach, Jeremy, Jordan and Nate, had to be t their first appointment at 10:00am. The rest of us were going into town to do some shopping and have lunch. So, 10 adults piled into the Landcruiser with 3 bags of soccer gear on top. [View Full Entry]

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Thursday has been a quiet day for us, but a very busy one for Ron and the boys. The mayor arrived about 10:00 am and looked at all the soccer gear we had and was mightily impressed. They were visiting some secondary schools and having a little fun with the school children and arrived home about 4:00 very hungry after no lunch. The three boys had actually left at 6:45 this morning to have the local doctor that is a friend of Rob's take them on his rounds at the hospital. Thank goodness, he didn't ask for their medical opinion on [View Full Entry]

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