some differences...

contemplating the difference between life here and home

here:

to have milk for breakfast means boiling the milk come fresh from the cow for 4 minutes, then waiting for it to cool so the cream can be scooped off the top.

fresh vegies for lunch means soaking them in iodine to rid them of bugs.

washing the dishes is only necessary if the house helper isn't coming before they're needed next.

going to bed involves tucking in a mosquito net around the mattress, with vigilent searching for mosquitoes who got in before you.

ministry here regularly involves discussions about money and death - not being able to afford anything from food to education, and in 2 days here we've heard of a recent car accident, a 2 yr old died of malaria, one student had 3 relatives die in a month, and that's only from talking to 3 people.

hierarchy affects life.

slow day

having some slow time in dodoma at the carr's place.

watched a west wing and remembered our visit to washington D.C.

watched a dramatised version of John Wycliffe's life in preparation for maybe visiting some reformation sites in Germany/Switzerland.

watched the 'great plains' episode from David Attenburgh's 'Planet Earth' and marvelled at the migrations of herds through the earth and the provision of grass for so many to eat. Good prep for a little safari back in Kenya after the new year.

it's nice to be slow.

dusty dodoma

we flew from arusha (northern tanzania) to dodoma (centre) on this 13
seater plane. it's a cessna 208 caravan. :) the first photo is us
landed at the haydom airstrip right in the middle of nowhere, but on
quite a high plateau.

the little rings are maasai homes seen from the plane (approx
10,000ft). the maasai are a very large tribe/people group in kenya and
tanzania. traditionally nomadic herding people, also known for
drinking a lovely mixture of blood and milk.

clouds over central tanzania as we approach dodoma.

we're staying at neville and elspeth carr's place in dodoma.

and i saw a very pretty and beautiful flower in their garden. almost
as beautiful as my wife, who is positively glowing with our little boy
on board. last week i felt him kicking for the first time. :)

last photo is jane, esther mbogo and me. esther used to play with
fiona when we lived in kongwa.

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In Dodoma

Found an iced coffee in Dodoma!

the roof of africa

the tanzanian flag flying at marangu gate - the entry to the kilimanjaro national park.

 

jane and me enjoying the privilege of being in this part of the world. (i climbed kilimanjaro almost exactly 20 years ago: january 9th, 1990). jane's feeling a bit hot in the morning sun at the rooftop bar of our hotel in moshi.

 

now in arusha, having enjoyed a lovely chinese meal while talking english, swahili, german and chinese. and there are more mosquitoes here...