Hello again, everybody. The three Roes are off again on another wonderful trip. God is so gracious to us and has blessed us so abundantly in our many travels. We are off to Tanzania in just a few hours. We are going to be with friends that are missonaries close to Mwanza, Tanzania on Lake Victoria. They have established new churches, started a Bible Institute to train pastors and started an orphanage close by that Chrissy hopes to visit often. Three college students have been interning with the work and arrived in May to help coach soccer with some secondary school [View Full Entry]

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Other than the language training in the morning, we went to a local market out of town, it takes about an hour of to get to there by Daladala, Daladala is minibus, have lots of this in smaller town in China, you can get on/off anywhere you want to even though they do have certain dedicated stops, the route is recognized by the color painted on the bus, the difference between Daladala and public bus is Daladala normally go further out of town while the public bus only run inside of Arusha, it cost about 1000Tsh($1) to get to the market. [View Full Entry]

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It's the last day of training week so we're having an amazing race in the afternoon, not surprisingly what we need to do is to fulfill a bunch tasks by the given clues we have, tasks like go to the clock tower find someone you know for the next clue, catch a daladala to "friends corner", go to post office send a post card, go to central market buy some fruits for less than Tsh500, go to TTCL and make a local phone call, etc. it was actually quite fun, we were running like crazy on the street and people were [View Full Entry]

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Jambo! We are now in Arusha. We left Balntyre, Malawi on Thursday afternoon after having 10 days in Malawi! We decided to fly back to Tanzania this time rather then taking another 2 day long bus ride! :0) Malawi was wonderful! We are in love with the country as well as the people! They are all so kind, and our hostess, Sylvia, the woman who runs the Joshua Orphan Care Center treated us like family! It was the best time we have had so far in Africa. A quick summary... We had the opportunity to spend some time at the Namasimba [View Full Entry]

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Hey all, For the first time in what feels like forever I have decent internet, so instead of putting together a long story blog. I'm going to load a number of photos for you all to take a peak. Since my last entry we've spent alot of time in, and around the Serengeti on safari. It was amazing. The photos I've included are a mere sample of the hundreds I've taken so far... I've also gone back and included the gorilla trek too. At the moment I'm back on Zanzibar island. We have a four day stop over here. I've spent [View Full Entry]

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These past few days have flown by! On Thursday, we got our first lecture on agrobiodiversity, a fancy term that basically refers to the way farmers interact with the land and all of the plants on it. This encompasses not only foodstuff but also soil-enriching trees, grasses for thatching, etc. It's a fairly fascinating subject; too bad that we don't really get to spend time on it because of our busy schedule. On Friday we walked about an hour to see some farms and agrobiodiversity in action. It's much more amazing when you actually see it. I was impressed with the [View Full Entry]

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Since it's a Sat, I planned on sleep in this morning, got up at about 8:45am which is fairly late compare to the weekdays, we're going to a quick hike at lake Duluti today, set off at around 11am, took the daladala to the trailhead, paid around $10 for entrance fee and a ranger with us. it is a very easy hike around the lake, on a sunny day, we should be able to see Mt. Kili and Mt. Meru around, but unfortunately it's quite cloudy today so we weren't able to see anything, lake Duluti is ok, nothing spectacular, I [View Full Entry]

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The past couple of weeks have gone by too fast. The thought of having to leave on Sunday is difficult to grasp. I feel that I have finally just become absorbed into IMUMA (where I work) and now I have to leave. Everyday has presented new challenges and frustrations to overcome but always with a smile. Taking the children to the beach every week has become one of my favorite activities. They will talk to me in Swahili so I have just given in to smiling and nodding my head. Kids are kids no matter where you are :) The language [View Full Entry]

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July 9, 10, 2008 SERENGETI, Tanzania This was a very long day in the car as we drove over 9 hours from Masi-Mara south and through West Mara, and into Tanzania as we made our way to the Kensington Camp in the Serengeti ( Masai for “endless plain” ) for some more game viewing. It would be hard to explain the road conditions for most of the trip !!! You wouldn’t believe it if I was able to explain anyway. ( and this is a main road ). The Serengeti ecosystem includes the Masai Mara in Kenya and the Serengeti and [View Full Entry]

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Hello again, Well i'm all finished in Rulenge now, we drove back to Mwanza and the Tanzanian office on tuesday - another very dusty long drive. I am now sitting in the Sunshine Motel in Kahama using a GPRS connection that is surprisingly good here. That is one thing I have found about Tanz., they may not have tar roads everywhere, or hot water where they have hot water taps but they have fantastic phone reception in the most remote places! So I had a day in Mwanza, not a day off however as Robert and myself were preparing for the [View Full Entry]

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