http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Tanzania en-us Thu, 15 May 2008 13:34:04 BST Thu, 15 May 2008 13:34:04 BST Well I have to say Noel and I debated about going to Zanzibar before Kenya and we are glad we cameAlthough it is rainy season the weather has been absolutely wonderful for us here in Zanzibar. We stayed in a little village on the East Coast of the Island called Jambiani. The villagers were all very nice people and the children absolutely adorable. We stayed in nice little bungaloes on the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Zanzibar-City/blog-276512.html We've had a variety of things going on the last couple of weeks. One of the things I'm doing this month is teaching the small children's Bible class. The students range from about 18 months to approximately 6 or 7. I really enjoy teaching these little ones it has been quite a while since I've taught this age. The ladies have it set up where the same teacher teaches for a month and so I volun http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-275792.html On the 25th of July my boyfriend Snorre and I will fly off from Norway destination Nairobi. We have 8 days which include a safari in the Masai Mara area before we fly to Zanzibar for 13 days of picture perfect beaches and aquariumlike snorkeling. Time left Updates will come right here as soon as we get down there. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Nungwi/blog-275757.html This workshop business is exhausting. The moment we get back from dinner I lie down and go to sleep sometimes unintentionally. Last night Sophie and I were lying in our beds and heard a tap dripping really loudly and rather than walk the 6 feet to the bathroom to investigate we decided to shirk our environmental responsibility and just pass out. The electricity has been really unreliable for t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-275530.html This past week has been a busy week. Brent and I started it off with a day of evangelism in Marangu Mwika. Us along with about 10 members from the Moshi congregation drove up the mountain to evangelize to the people of Marangu. It is about a 45min drive for us to get to the village. When we arrived we divided up into our teams to go out and set up some Bible studies. My team was 3 of the Afr http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-275157.html Malawi was fun though very hilly but then I didn't realise how hilly the Poloto mountains in Tanzania would be.There was an interesting 8km climb which took a long time. Reaching the top all the school kids pilled out of class andwhistling and shouting dongle or dongler they ran with me up the hill laughing and joking.It really was an occasion to make me smile. Those little kids can really http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/West/Mbeya/blog-274714.html This entry has deleted itselfnot published about ten times actually only 4 so here is my last desperate attempt to publish it two days after it was written.I have found wireless internet and am able to work on my lap top. The good news is that it is faster than almost all the dial up connections in town. The bad news is that I can no longer blame my typos on the keyboard and someone in D http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-274551.html Nairobi Kenya was described as a very scary place in all of the travel books but we found it to be easy to navigate and the people helpful. Tourists still seemed to be scarce due to the low season and the politcal unrest which was mainly to the west of Nairobi and is on hold...which we found to be very helpful in negotiating prices.We arrived from the paradise of the Seychelle Islands expecti http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-274484.html What an amazing week wersquove had From start to finish everything that has come our way this week in particular has been an encouragement and a blessing As a family we sat and talked about what all has been going on this past few months and tried to draw together the things which strengthen our spirits and encourage us individually what are those things that just make your day brighter an http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-273983.html What a month we have had in Tanzania. Words will not be able to do justice to the true depths and zeniths that we have experienced over the last three plus weeks. Jerry Clower once had a song that said something to the effect of Shoot up here amoungst us as one of us has got to have some relief speaking of a man in a tree with a wild cat. At times this probably best sums up our feelings. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-273982.html If you were to look up Murphy's Law in the Dictionary the definition would read like thisMurphy's Law A missionaries life in a third world country.... Actually I am not sure what it would read it just seems to us that this week especially has been one that has challenged our faith as well as the faith of a few others. On Sunday Night we received a group of campaigners from Oklahoma. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-273981.html We hope and pray that all is well where you are and that this report find you safely in the fold of our Sheppard. It has been another week full of work promises blessings and shidas problems as to be expected anywhere. On Monday I traveled back to Arusha to teach the second year students and in the middle of class I received a call from John who had received a call from Emmanuel in Macham http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-273980.html We hope and pray that this note finds all of you well and safe in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It has been a good week in the Kingdom here in East Africa as things are back in full swing. My schedule for the next few weeks has hit an overload stage as each day opens something is already planned until the 27th of March. And I am sure that by the time that date arrives we will have alread http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-273976.html TANZANIA MISSION REPORTBrent Julie Richardson PO Box 1727 Arusha Tanzania East Africaemail Brent JBrentRichardsongmail.com TZ phone011 255 755 539 399email Julie JulieRenae75gmail.com TZphone011 255 783 379 955Sponsoring Congregation Northport Church of Christ PO Box 333 Northport AL 35473THE BLESSINGS OF A GOOD DAY1 Corinthians 1618 For they refreshed my spirit and yours ac http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-273897.html As a disclaimer I managed to find the only disfunctional keyboard in the internet cafe so please excuse creative punctuation and spelling some keys are missing or not working. The shift key is also MIA and this capslock business is seriously slowing down my creative energy. Ah well. The title to this entry is different than originally planned read on to see whyFirst of all my flights he http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-273805.html What a month we have had in Tanzania. Words will not be able to do justice to the true depths and zeniths that we have experienced over the last three plus weeks. Jerry Clower once had a song that said something to the effect of Shoot up here amoungst us as one of us has got to have some relief speaking of a man in a tree with a wild cat. At times this probably best sums up our feelings. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-273802.html Greetings Grace and Peace to each of you. I know that this report is finding you a day later than normal after two weeks of dealing with the internet company we have had to settle for the fact that we are just not going to have reliable internet with them any time soon. What does that mean For us it primarily affects the web site. We have decided to suspend it for a time until the problem is http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-273798.html Hey EveryoneI have been sitting on this entry for a few days now hoping I would get the whole picture shida problem figured out but every time I try to add a photo my computer shuts down completely. Go figure. Soooo I decided if this entry is going to be relevant I'd better post it today since it IS Saturday.Just wanted to share in my excitement and anticipation. I am excited about Sunda http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Arusha/blog-273555.html Greetings Grace and Peace to each of you. I know that this report is finding you a day later than normal after two weeks of dealing with the internet company we have had to settle for the fact that we are just not going to have reliable internet with them any time soon. What does that mean For us it primarily affects the web site. We have decided to suspend it for a time until the probl http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-273246.html hey i was having breakfast this morning while everyone else was having lunch and i was eating my rice with a fork. an old woman in a suit sat down at my table because there are no personal boundaries in Africa and she ate her whole fried fish with her fingers and scooped up rice and put her hands in her soup and picked at the fish spine and licked it and slurped. she ate every possible bit of http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Dar-es-Salaam/blog-272840.html Hi everyone. just to let you know that i got back safely for the people who are obviously interested. sorry if you are not but this is the easiest way to get in touch with people.i will keep in touch and be on the old letter writing soon. i hope you are all well and once i have internet set up i will be doing individual emails.be in touch soon hope you are all well.with love and peacekatiexxxxwill http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-272717.html the head nun of the YMCA told me never to trust a man from the streeti'm not sure because i met hassan on the street. i have decided tocontinue on continuing on the way i have been trusting good men asthey seem and hoping the best of them. if they turn out to be crooksthen it is much more there own loss than it is mine.another interesting turn has taken place. i have been searching forfilm for m http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Dar-es-Salaam/blog-272233.html Itrsquos funny the things you learn about yourself through the eyes of your children. I hadnrsquot noticed that we used this phrase as much as I guess we do day in and day out but Gracie made me a picture the other day that said ldquoThis is Africardquo otherwise known as TIA Our household motto And wersquore finding that itrsquos a much broader used term than we realized. The o http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-272224.html i am a sucker yesterday was may day here in dar es salaam whatever that means and it meant that the internet shop here at the YMCA was closed along with just about every business in town. the entire town was deserted the usual horns and bells and yelling of the morning were gone. i sat and did nothing and ate eggs and then i went out the front door and across the street and beyond in search of http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Dar-es-Salaam/blog-272180.html Today Julie and I got up and decided to go into town just the two of us. We needed to get some groceries and run some errands. So we went by the grocery store and then we drove around Moshi for about 20min just to take some pictures around town. After we were finished with all the things on our list we started to headed back home. But then we remembered an African lady we met at a Birthday party http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-272178.html I totally forgot to tell you in the blog I just sent out that we are switching to GMAIL. We will be keeping the AOL email up and running for a while until everyone gets the new one on their computers. We just have so much trouble connecting to AOL all the way over here for some reason.SOOOO ... the new emails areshastagailgmail.com anthonyebrown1gmail.com IF any of you have more than one http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Arusha/blog-271499.html Someone asked me yesterday ldquoWhen was the last time you sent out a blogrdquo I had to think but then realized it was almost a month ago. So sorry guys I have fallen down on my job of keeping you informed of what we have been doing. Let me get to it and get some pictures on this thing for you so you can see us and have something to do today HA We wouldnrsquot want you to be b http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Arusha/blog-271437.html Today started off with Anthony and Shasta Brown and Sean Hochdorf coming over to the house. They brought some wood from Arusha for Brent to cut with his new tools so they could build some shelves for the house. The Samfordrsquos one of the missionary families here got their container from the states and the Richardsonrsquos had some supplies on the container as well. Most of it consiste http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-271434.html Dearest BrethrenI thought it might be time to update my blog Until now internet for us has been very hit or miss. However I believe we have the bugs worked out and it will be a little more reliable. Most of you have been keeping up with us via our report or Race. As you know we are still waiting to hear something about the work permit. Your prayers are very much appreciated and we know they w http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Arusha/blog-271269.html now i am back in dar es salaam and by no reasonable means. everything happened all at once yesterday in one long wild second. the time came to go and i went with solid water coming from the sky no gaps between the droplets of rain turning the dirt road into a mud river and i ran in a crouch through the night late night until i arrived soaked in all of the individual elements of africa hard w http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Dar-es-Salaam/blog-271217.html