tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12103782177538012862024-02-06T20:50:27.635-07:00Charlotte and David's Dodoma MissionA journal of thoughts and happenings in and around Dodoma, Tanzania as volunteers for Msalato Theological College.Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-79929813256469648392012-05-06T06:05:00.000-06:002012-05-06T06:05:02.443-06:00Animals, Animals! Easter BreakToday is Wednesday the second of May, 2012. So sorry to all my friends and followers for not posting sooner but David has not been well since before the two week holiday. We have been busy working on classes, making plans to return to Denver in early May and generally trying to gracefully say good-by.<br />
I am posting a few of our holiday pictures from the parks up north near Karatu and then a few pictures of the seminary's nursery school along with some activities and gatherings. <br />
This has been a very sad time for me but I hope to make the most of the departure from Tanzania and<br />
continue helping people in the US understand the needs of South Eastern Africa. A big thank you to all who have been following us on facebook and this blog! God bless each of you for caring about others.<br />
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Elephants on the move in Lake Manayara, Karatu, TZ<br />
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Nursery School students ages 4 to 7 at Msalato Seminary April, 2012<br />
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Nursery School Building in Need of Repairs!<br />
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No supplies, developmental toys, educational materials or playground for students!What you see if pretty much what they have.<br />
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My vocabulary and reading classes for English Foundations. May 4, 2012<br />
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<br />All these students are planning to enter the ministry in three more years. Most as pastors or working with the Central Diocese of the Anglican Church in Tanzania. Wonderful group of students I have enjoyed them very much!Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-87615955780724399832012-03-20T06:55:00.001-06:002012-03-21T06:08:43.070-06:00Today is March 20th, 2012 and it is windy and dry. The weather is now more tolerable for David and I. It is not good for local gardens but much better for our bone joints. Looking at my AOL page I realized it has been very warm in Denver, Colorado. Here in Msalato is has been rainy then dry....rainy then dry. Ah the problems with global warming...<br />
Today I finished up a science reading unit about the three types of rocks. I asked a question that used the term "classification" and my students were stumped. No one knew the answer for "classification" of rocks. Once I explained it was just another word for "a type of rock" everyone was happy and went about answering on their papers. I never leave the house now without a Swahili to English/English to Swahili Dictionary. It has become my new Bible of a sorts for me!<br />
David is teaching his graduate courses at St. John's on Monday-Wednesdays. He now has 21 students. It took until the 5th class for all of them to show up. Monday, he showed up to class and there were no desks or tables in the classroom. He got rather upset and called the Assistant Vice-Chancellor who got the workers within five minutes to bring the desks back to the classroom and a table. He has told his class about the effects of the "chalk and talk-memorize" method in teaching young adults English. They can read the words in a passage fine but may have no idea what they have just read. Just as with any student of a foreign language, understanding the vocabulary is a must in learning to read and converse with others. <br />
In this blog I am including many pictures about people and activities that happened to us over the last week or so. Several of our pictures include a young couple we know whose child we are sponsoring in secondary school in Arusha. They have twin girls around three years of age. Very cute girls and very well mannered. We invited our friend Eugenia/Swahili teacher to meet us at the pizza place with the cement golf. Another set of pictures are showing some of the St. Mark's members carrying the new benches that David bought and sitting on the benches at church on Sunday. There also a few again from my reading class and the volcano demonstrations along with some of the nursery children playing with silly putty that Mitaka Packett ( a young visitor from Australia) and I brought to their school.<br />
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David is having a bad time of it with the car even though it was designed for some off road adventures.<br />
But being a 17 years old car does not help. Even though its suspension and ability were made to take the dips and bumps in the road. So we will see how long it last...hopefully until we leave.<br />
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Classes are going great and we are both enjoying our students. David's classes are going good at St. John's almost everyone has started to attend now and he has over 20 students in a graduate class on secondary curriculum. As for my classes, the tutoring is working very well for I see around 4 to 6 students a week individually before and after class. The vocabulary and reading comprehension classes are also in full swing and appear to be helping. There is a wide range of abilities with the 17 students and therefore we have divided the group into three reading levels. We can only hope that by this July they will have mastered enough vocabulary to continue in English next year with theology classes. If not they will be recommended to complete their studies in a Swahili speaking seminary<br />
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A couple of weeks ago right after we attended our Pastoral Churches on a Sunday, David announced he was buying benches for his church. St. Mark's is about a 20 to 30 minute walk from our campus. It is a new church with only a shell of a building and a roof. Its floor is dirt and it has only openings for windows and a door. The congregation sits on rocks or bricks or just the dirt floor. David immediately ordered 10 benches from a Duka shop in Dodoma. Eugenia who is our Swahili teacher helped him order them and made sure they were the right size for the small church. This Sunday David will take the benches to church with him or have members of the congregation come and carry them to the church. They aren't great but at least they are not rocks or dirt!</div>
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<br /></div>Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-26735072603720151382012-02-25T06:34:00.000-07:002012-02-25T06:34:09.213-07:00February 25th, 2012<br />
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This week has been hot, busy and rainy. Our reading classes are going great so far and the students seem to be enjoying their lessons. David has been asked to teach down at St. John's University<br />
(where we were two years ago) a curriculum class in the graduate department of education. He has accepted and will start in about one week. This week we are featuring the secretary class that David is helping with another teacher and our trip to the Catholic Vocational School to retrieve our rocking chair and to order benches for a village church near by.<br />
Much to our disappointment the chair was not completed so we will return again. I don't mind because the grounds are beautiful and I love walking around and viewing all the orchards, vineyards, animals and gardens. The nuns are great to us when we come and go out of their way to be helpful, even though we speak no Italian and they only speak Swahili and Italian. For me it is a little like going to Galloway Gardens in Georgia in the spring time. There is so much poverty here (about 99%) and little beauty to look at that just driving through their grounds brings a restful spirit awake inside of me. I have included some pictures for all to see.<br />
The other area we wanted to feature this week is the secretary classroom. The girls are being trained on manual typewriters because most offices still do not have electricity or power they can count on. We have one very nice brand new computer lab (12 new ones) but no printers, and an older computer lab that is open to all students. The older computer lab has a variety of different word processing programs with no printer hook-ups at present. Teaching students during a computer lab time is very difficult due to the variety of software programs on each computer BUT David is up to challenge with another staff member and they are forging ahead with the lessons.<br />
We had a terrible storm yesterday in the late afternoon and lost electrical power until around noon today (Saturday). Moses and Ruth and little Grace came over last night for dinner and we had to eat in the dark with lightening flashing all around. Fun for Grace but washing dishing in the dark leaves a lot of food on the plates! <br />
Please keep us in your prayers......................Charlotte and David Reid<br />
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Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-23316596643903582072012-02-19T06:15:00.001-07:002012-02-19T06:15:49.585-07:00Sunday, February 19, 2012<br />
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Today we visited village churches near the seminary. Each of the instructors and volunteers have been paired with 8 to 10 students in what is called a "Pastoral Care Group" This group meets once a week on Wednesday morning (7:30 am) in place of chapel and makes preparations for visiting a local village church they have been assigned. Eventually I am told, the theological majors in this group will lead the service, say prayers and read the scriptures. Maybe one or two of them will even give the sermon.<br />
These churches do not have a pastor or anyone who is ordained or trained to lead their meetings and services.<br />
They are usually new churches or ones that have lost a pastor and they are all Anglican. David and I both have different churches and Pastoral Groups. We have been paired with another instructor who has experience in leading the Pastoral Group and attending the local churches. David's church is named St. Mark's and my church is called Muungamo(not sure if this is the village name or the church name). <br />
From a western point of view both churches are very poor without for example a proper alter, real doors, or even enough benches in St. Mark's case. My church did have song books and everyone had their Bibles to follow along with the readings. Yes the services were in Swahili only and were very long (over two hours at my church). Muungamo Church had a wonderful choir (actually two choirs), one that sang traditional African church music and one that did what I would call a more tribal version with large and small drums, whistles, and some sort of rice shaker. Each one was wonderful and entertaining in its own way. My church had no road into it so we followed the edge of corn field (which was dried up due to the lack of rain). Everyone except the four in our car walked to service from the village. The same for David's church. <br />
David took the camera today to take pictures of his church. Next Pastoral Group Sunday I will take the camera and share.<br />
I have included several pictures of David's car, the fence, gate and the house in the back. (Note the cinder blocks where all the lizards live!) He was very happy to have the guard on the car today due to all the brush he had to drive through. Picture one is of Shaking Hands after service, Picture two is of drummer ladies, Picture three is of the church, the next three are of the gate, fence and car (cattle guard on front). We are known as Fort Knox because of the gate!<br />
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Today was the first day of classes for the new semester here at Msalato Theological College. We started with Chapel (every week day morning) at 7:30 am. Classes begin at 8:00 am and continue until 1:30 pm with a tea break at 11:00 for students and faculty. Not all of the students are here yet but we have been told more will arrive through out the week. No one seems to register for school as they do in the US. The dorms are very quite even though over half of the students are present. David helped out with the English classes in the seminary area while I taught vocabulary and reading classes to other seminary students. Tomorrow we both begin an additional class for Grammar content which will include fun games and activities based on grammar skills for about 17 students who are in need of review and support in that area. (Don't know how much fun that will really be for them!)<br />
I have 12 hours of student contact during the week and David has the same. It has been very hot the past week with little or no rain. Working in these conditions is hard on both of us so we are hoping that the rains will start again and cool down the whole area. We are in late summer now and they really should be experiencing rain on a daily basis. Crops here are drying up especially the corn and beans. Having a small garden is how many people survive over the winter and spring months. Everyone is praying for rain. <br />
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Yesterday was like groundhog day for us! We went to the Cathedral for 9:00 am English service and again at a 5:00 pm at Msalato for opening of the seminary's new term. The readings, sermon, prayers, and songs were all the same! We even participated in communion twice that day!! Can't say I wish to do that again!<br />
The pictures are of our students along with one road picture of cattle and livestock on the main road to Dodoma from Msalato. Enjoy!Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-482627055459274242012-02-04T08:21:00.001-07:002012-02-04T08:21:31.828-07:00Today we went to visit my housekeeper Mama Zawade and her family. She lives across from the college in a typical home for Tanzania. Very nice family, polite children and good food! We did not expect the lunch but was served a nice meal. Limited conversations in English but the oldest son and Mama spoke to us mostly asking about America and differences in Tanzania and there. Great visit wish I could have spoken Swahili. We are learning some phrases but it is really hard with all the preperations we need to do for classes which are starting soon.<br />
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The other pictures shown are of new friends and volunteers, misionaries here at Msalato Seminary.We are at our usual haunt the Dodoma Hotel for Friday night dinner out. Nice place good food but hard to get to from Msalato. All are from of course English speaking countries, New Zealand, England, Canada and US(that's us). We are expecting more instructors to come in this weekend. Three more from the US and another couple from Korea. Monday night we are planning a welcome dinner for everyone before the semester starts. David and I really enjoying the social aspect this time. We are getting to know some wonderful people. Some will be leaving in May but others are coming all the time to volunteer for what ever time they can give. <br />
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Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-27747676930373274142012-01-27T06:44:00.000-07:002012-01-27T06:51:48.248-07:00Today is Friday the 27th of January and we have two more weeks before classes start here on campus. Yesterday we visited St. John's University and saw a few people we taught with and even a few of our former students who were still working on their degrees.It was a nice visit and later we took our friend, Focas with us to eat at Rose's Cafe downtown. Earlier that morning we met with the rest of the English Department and discussed our teaching loads. David and I will be teaching a form of Reading Recovery to students who need the extra attention for reading skills. Later as time permits we may help with basic computer research skills, grammar activities and even a Pastoral Care session and Bible Study. We have been very happy with the staff we will be working side by side with and believe that this is a good match for all of us. I have some pictures I will attempt to share today. Hope you like them.PS: I will post more later..so check back in.<br />
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Today has been a very hot day but a very busy one. We had our first lesson in Swahili, our nets were placed over our beds, the workers came and put our clothes lines up and we went shopping and found some items for the house that we needed. Tomorrow we will meet with some of the seminary faculty to discuss some of our schedules and classes we are teaching. Later in the week we will do more planning for the start of the new school year. It is beginning to feel more like home here and we are adjusting to the weather and our surroundings. Above are some more pictures of our house and people who are helping us.Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-13401264188718595162012-01-22T08:02:00.000-07:002012-01-22T08:02:16.988-07:00Home In Tanzania 2012David and I have arrived in Msalato, TZ. School is out for three for weeks here at the seminary but some faculty from England and New Zealand have already arrived. We are settling in fine except for the heat. It is summer here and the rainy season. Every thing is green and wet and humid! The faculty we have met are wonderful and of course we have already visited with Moses and Ruth our Georgia friends from Tanzania. Moses is the Director of Msalato Theological College and Ruth is his wife.<br />
The only obstacle so far has been the road from Dodoma to Msalato. It is awful, full of pot holes and when it rains the holes become small and large ponds. David is enjoying his car (SUV) and loves to drive it to Dodoma. It is perfect for these roads.<br />
Our house was remodled for us before we came and it is a great improvement over the small one bedroom apartment we had at St. John's University in 2009-2010. It has three bedrooms, hot water, electric outlets that work, fresh paint and lizards in the back and front yards! A front porch for viewing Dodoma and the lizards.<br />
All in all we all happy to be in one place and settled into the house. Praise be to God for that!<br />
Here are some pictures from Dar es Salaam and Msalato. More will follow later.<br />
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<br /></div>Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com1Dashboard, GA 30108, USA33.486894 -85.21882233.4852385 -85.2212895 33.4885495 -85.216354500000008tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-31238931446939984402012-01-22T07:56:00.001-07:002012-01-25T08:34:57.654-07:00Home in MsalatoToday is Sunday, January 22nd, a day of rest and church going for all Christians in Dodoma and Msalato. We have arrived at Msalato Seminary and are mostly settled into our new home. The house was remolded for western people which means heated water, an American toilet, stove and fridge,new paint and cleaned through-out. It looks great! Praise the Lord.<br />
We now have a car, our Trusty Besty, the SUV. She is 12 years old but works great. David loves to drive her. The only real difficulty we have had has been the road into Dodoma from Msalato. It is full of pot holes and when it rains they become lakes and ponds making it difficult to see where the road goes.<br />
Over the past week we have met the instructors here at the seminary for English and some of our past friends we knew from St. John's University. We are slowly connecting but it is more difficult because of the distance and the road conditions.<br />
We did manage to go into town at least once a day and sometimes twice a day this past week for supplies and items we needed for our home. Today we rode with a neighbor in her car to church at the Anglican Cathedral for the English service. There were about 20 or so misionaries there along with some brave Tanzanians who wish to hear the service in English. It was nice to be back. We met some people from St. John's and others from CAMS ( English Mission School).<br />
This time our trip to Dodoma is different. It is odd but we both feel a connection here. The Christian Angelo community is very close mainly due to how few of us there are in the area and I believe our common goals.<br />
Tonight we will welcome back another couple who have been on long holiday. There last name is also Reid but they are from Canada. In our little community here on campus we have one couple from England, another one from New Zealand, two retired doctors from Georgia, and of course us from Denver, Colorado. We are a very international group in this part of Tanzania. But we all have one common thread: the will to follow a call to teach and serve in this country. It is very good to be here and to met the challanges of the Tanzanian people. <br />
Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers. Pictures to follow soon.<br />
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<br />Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-75834915592770536912011-12-14T09:33:00.000-07:002011-12-14T09:33:56.780-07:00Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-50777449509407268202011-12-12T14:41:00.001-07:002011-12-14T09:38:05.576-07:00Heading to Dodoma Again!December 14, 2011<br />
HABARI!!<br />
After many months of waiting and endless e-mails, our plans are 90% complete for a Dodoma departure in early January! This time our volunteering will be 6 miles north west of town in a little village named Msalato.<br />
We are excited and very eager to begin this second mission with the Anglican Church of Tanzania. We will be housed on the campus of Msalato Theological College which is affiliated with St. John's University in Dodoma, TZ. The seminary houses around 90 to 100 seminary students with some day students coming for lay ministry and teaching certifications as well as English classes. The college is partially supported by Episcopal churches in Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia as well as the Anglican Central Diocese of Tanzania. Our duties will consist of teaching English listening skills as well as oral reading and silent comprehension skills. This will be very similar to what I did in my teaching profession with younger students.<br />
In addition, David may work at St. John's with the Special Education Master's program he wrote before we left in February of 2010.<br />
If you wish to know more about Msalato Theological College try these web sites:<br />
<a href="http://www.msalato.com/">http://www.msalato.com/</a><br />
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</div>Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-1819723576283006102010-02-18T04:36:00.005-07:002010-02-18T08:15:10.856-07:00Returning HomeI write this blog with a very sad heart today because we will be returning to Colorado near the end of this month. Our decision to return was not easy but necessary. Our stay here has richly blessed us with many wonderful memories of the Tanzanian people and the countryside. <br />
In January and December I wrote about the desire to serve. David and I still feel very committed to this idea and believe with all our hearts that we still can make a difference here in Africa. But over the last two months several events have occurred that have altered our abilities to continue here for this next semester. One, there were two sudden deaths in David's immediate family over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. He needs to return home to touch base and help with family matters. Two, we realized that my teaching at Msalato Seminary this February would demand a <strong>real</strong> car due to the terrible roads and we were not able to secure funding to buy or lease one here. So with a heavy heart we return home to regroup and decide how to secure the money for our trip back and the car. In the meantime we are posting these pictures from our first and last trip to a wildlife preserve near Dodoma. Hope you enjoy them.<br />
Please look for our blog again in October of 2010. Hopefully by that time we will have arrived back in Tanzania.<br />
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Below is a journal entry I made while traveling back to Dodoma from Christmas break. Hope you enjoy it!<br />
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Today on my way to DC I had somewhat of a revelation. I know it may sound trite <br />
but “life is all about serving .” You can choose to serve yourself or to serve others.<br />
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As I was waiting in Denver to catch my first of three connections to Dar a CNN show was blaring about the world’s reaction to Haiti’s troubles. People were texting, twittering, and calling in about their problems here in the US and in Haiti. Comments ranged from sorrowful for having little money to bitter that their financial woes had not been solved. But all expressed concern and regret that Haiti was in dire need of aide. <br />
It reminded me that as a species we do care about most living creatures. ( Of course for myself I must rule out snakes and spiders.) We show great concern when cruelty is done to animals, when our environment is turning up side down, when we see injustice, genocide, religious and political scandal. We even care about historical injustices and past wars. What I realized on my way back to my adopted home of Dodoma is that “reacting” to these concerns is the key to life. You see, I can care but do I act on the caring? Do I give time or money? Do I give something from myself? <br />
To say that I care is only the first step. To say I can do is the second step. And to say I will serve is the third and final step. Now I don’t want anyone to confuse serving as only the act of working. As the hands and feet of Christ’s body we can do more than physically serve him. Serving comes in many different modes such as giving our time for a national drive, collecting used clothing, books, toys, or food for the needy around the world. Organizing awareness in our communities for the homeless, the poor, the sick, the mentally ill, or those in need of medical attention. Serving takes many forms …one just needs to ask: where is the need that they may serve and take that final step. Tonight as I listen to the news I know we have many places and people to serve. There are disasters, poverty, bombings, conflicts and misery all around us. Unfortunately the choices are endless.<br />
I know personally how this works you see. I used to say I cared. That was it.. nothing more. I would watch TV news and cry or hear about others volunteering and wonder, “How do they do that?” But nothing more did I do. Today, I am sitting on a plane waiting for my connector flight to Zurich where I board another plane to Kenya and on to Tanzania. Three years ago with retirement in front of us, my husband and I would never have dreamed we would be volunteering in Africa. What a wonderful difference God can make in ones life. All we need to do is just open up and say,” Yes I will Lord. Hear am I.”<br />
Tonight I am returning to serve, to care and to love my fellow sisters and brothers of Tanzania. We are all one family under God. One heat beat living on this great earth!<br />
If you ever wondered how you would serve don’t ..just say in prayer, “ Here I am Lord” and he will lead you!<br />
PS: I wish to add a footnote here. A special thanks goes out to all my ELC fellow members who donated so generously to my collection basket while I was home. (Over 380.00 dollars) An additional big thank you to a special caring individual who donated $200.00 one Sunday morning. God bless you Michelle. And last a wonderful and grateful thank you to Christine and Jeremy for their work in collecting all types of balls and games for a primary government school we have adopted in Dodoma. Stay tuned for pictures! Last but not least a grateful praise God for the council’s pledge of money coming in the Spring which will be used as a scholarship fund for Msalato Seminary students. Thanks to all of you I go back with a warm heart and a renewed belief in the goodness of God’s children.<br />
In Christ, <br />
Charlotte ReidCharlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-26002565989305025112010-01-03T11:41:00.004-07:002010-01-03T12:15:42.329-07:00The Real Meaning of Christmas (Prepared Dec 27th for Dodoma Mission Blog)I am a little late getting this in this blog but got busy and unfortunately had another death in the family, this one my oldest brother. It came as a shock as my nephew, his son, just died only three weeks ago. I am still reeling from these events, but here goes the original blog I had already drafted:<br />
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Charlotte has written her impressions about Christmas this year on the Dodoma Mission Blog. She is in Colorado visiting our son and completing a number of important tasks that will help St John's University, our living conditions in the concrete bunker, and raise funds to suppliment our projects in the villages near campus. I stayed in Tanzania because of the cost and someone had to teach her classes while she is gone. Almost all of the support groups here are funded by an external agency. We are here on our own dime, so to speak, with no help period. She hopes to obtain fundng for both our basic needs and for St John's as well as our school projects.<br />
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My impression of Christmas this year involved traveling to Bayamoyo on the eastern coast of Tanzania near Dar es Salaam. I was excited about the trip for many reasons. Dar es Salaam actually has a relatively new shopping center similiar to those in most U.S. cities. It was good to be able to see modern stores with lots of merchandise. My big find was a business level black and white laser printer that is also a scanner, and photocopier. It was on sale and actually cost about what it would when not on sale in the U.S. Dodoma businesses are often dominated by foreigners who work together to keep prices high and keep out competition. The same printer if available in Dodoma, would cost 30% more. Other purchases were for the trip up the coast to Bayamoyo including a gift for a name exchange between those traveling together to Bayamoyo.<br />
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Bayamoyo is a small sleepy town that reminds me of Myrtle and Virginia Beach where we went in the late 1950s and early 60s in the summers. We stayed right on the beach (No high risers to block the view.) Cost was only 50.00 per night which included breakfast. Down the road is the oldest Anglican Church in Tanzania. It has the distinct honor of housing the mummified body of David Livingston while waiting to be taken to Zanzibar for burial in 1876. We enjoyed several meals in the open outdoor restaurants and local historical tours including the slave market, talk about man's inhumanity to man!<br />
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On Christmas Day, Dr. Carr, the Dean of Humanities and Education at St John's University had been invited by a former theology student to present the sermon at the little Anglican Church I previously mentioned. Paul (Another faculty member St. John's) and I walked down the road from our place of lodging to the church. As we were walking along, a tall slender man passed us and I realized he was a Maasai. It seemed odd to see everyone else dressed more western style and this individual looked like the pictures in a travel brochure from the Serengeti. Paul spoke to him in Swahili, greeting him as he traveled on. Once at the church I observed that men sit on one side and the women on the other. Lots of children dressed in whatever they had that was Sunday best. The church was small, maybe holding about 100 people.<br />
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Dr. Carr gave an important message. He mentioned around the world in many countries children were opening lots of presents, but may be missing the real meaning of Christmas. Having a lot of material things and not acknowledging the spiritual side will leave you unsatisfied. His message was right on for this congregation. I doubt many, if any presents were opened on Christmas morning at this beach church because just behind the beach facade is the extreme poverty that exists in Africa. They sang many classic Christmas songs, reminded me of my own church on Christmas eve. When it became time to give an offering everyone filed to the front to give their donation. Paul and I gave 20,000 Shillings (about 15.00 USD) each and the group seemed to gasp at the amount. Think of the irony of that. We never gave it a second thought that the amount was more than many made for two weeks work. After church I felt like I had gotten a sore hand from shaking everyone's hand including the children who seemed honored that this old white man smiled at them and bent down to their level. The whole experience had a reminding effect on what is important about Christmas.<br />
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Enough of the serious side. We had several humorious events occur. First, while eating at the open air restaurant on the beach the second night, two large gray furry things fell from the thatched roof directly onto the floor. Rats! The one who had a soft landng ran under a table of six people who demonstrated their athletic skills by fleeing. I turned to the bartender near by and and said what are you going to do about it? He leisurely got a broom and swept the fatally wounded one outside and checked under the table of six, then went back to bartending. Hmmm..,does this happen often?<br />
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Other incidents include going to a posh restaurant 18,000 Tsh (13.00 USD) for Christmas dinner. That was the easy part. At the gate the guard tried to charge us 7,000 Tsh each to enter, or 35,000 Tsh total. After an intense discussion between Christine and the guard in Swahili, he let us in free. What I noticed was the age that started for adults, five years old. I don't care how much growth hormone is put in American cattle feed, no child even in America looks like an adult at five years, maybe a rip off?<br />
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The next day when I paid up, the clerk took out a receipt book, put in a carbon paper and wrote me out a receipt, vintage 1950s. Not a computer in sight. On the way back we took a 75 mile short cut on dirt roads to save some mileage and time. Christine is an excellent dirt driver. She averaged 55-60 miles an hour on the dirt roads. We would come up on a small village and people would scramble up the banks to get out of the road. Later, literally in the middle of nowhere, we came upon several men putting interlocking bricks on the short street (using the term loosely) in the middle of the village. The had the road blocked off. Christine and two of the guys had another of those pay us to enter talks like the guard at the posh restaurant. This was in Swahili, but I could tell Christine was not winning. They wanted 5,000Tsh to cross their toll or troll road. Christine backs up and puts it in four wheel drive and goes up the bank onto the path in front of the huts and dukas and drove through their "front yards" and back down the bank past where the brick were being laid. The look on the two guys faces was shock.<br />
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The rest of the trip was uneventful to Dodoma. As I think back, Paul and Christine balanced the importance of Christmas and yet gave their children presents. The two children know what was important about Christmas because they would tell you when asked. Enough for this time.Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-46462855878583732022009-12-25T14:14:00.000-07:002009-12-25T14:14:21.672-07:00Home Again and BackToday is Christmas and I find myself in Colorado and David is in Dar es Salaam. A decision was made for me to fly back and acquire a new computer plus of course to visit family and friends. It has been an unusual Christmas for me and for David. We usually spend major holidays together but with one son in Japan and our oldest in Colorado it meant a world wide Christmas this year! It is nice to be home and to see my church family and my son and his wife. But it has created in me a different view of the world I came from to the world I really belong. So here are some thoughts just rambling around in my head...enjoy and please comment if you can.<br />
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December 24, 2009<br />
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Denver …Tanzania… Reflections<br />
I went to the Christmas Eve Candle Light service tonight. The lights, the lighted tree, the candles, the carols, the pastor’s message all seemed to be perfectly fitting into that holy space on this the holiest of nights. But the images in my mind tonight were not of the wonderful snow, or the candles or the smiling faces I see around me. The images I see are of a place far from here. One that is full of poverty and desperation but at the same time full of hope and faith. The images I see are of Tanzania.<br />
Everywhere I look tonight my mind shifts me back to a place where little is more, to have is to give, and to receive is a blessing. This is country where daily life is a struggle for all. Where water is obtained by carrying it on ones head not by turning on a faucet. Where traveling to work is by foot, by bike or local bus not by personal car. When it is time to do your laundry it is done by hand not by machines. Reading at night is by candle or flashlight not by electricity. Learning is done with a piece of chalk and board not by textbooks, pencils, crayons and paper. Cooking is often done over a charcoal pot in the middle of a room rather than on a stove and food is bought daily rather than stored in a refrigerator. Trash is burned in a pit in your backyard rather than gathered up by garbage collectors. Plastic bags are saved and washed instead of thrown away and coke comes in glass bottles rather than cans. Most roads are dirt and not maintained rather than paved with four to six lanes..traveling is only done by car when needed..not for a pleasure drive on Sundays.<br />
The differences are so great from this wonderful country of plenty to Tanzania that is has created in me a sense of have and have not mentality. I seem at times to be a state of unequal balance trying hard to juggle the reality of Tanzania and reality of Colorado.<br />
For example, my head spins when I enter a supermarket. Too overwhelmed by all the choices I often leave with little I came for. And when I do buy it is often the items I would select in the open air markets back in Tanzania. <br />
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</div>Starved for western entertainment I have spent hours looking at movies to buy or rent. I have not done well in this area, usually only buying movies to share with others back in Dodoma. <br />
Armed with a shopping list from Tanzania friends I walk among the isles of department stores my brain going into overload until I retreat to the safety of my car. My list is still very long!<br />
The simple fact is that life for us here in the United States is not difficult for a large part of our population. But for the average citizen in Tanzania life is difficult and often not kind. Take Christmas, for most children in Tanzania it will not be one full of presents with decorations on a tree. It is a church event with carols and thanksgiving. Not one of endless presents and expectations of toys. There is little talk of Santa or Father Christmas. Christmas in Tanzania is simple and with family. It is all about the birth of Christ.<br />
Another example is Tanzanians have little disposable income. Over 90% of the population live on less than two hundred dollars a year. And if they do make more it usually goes to their extended family to help out others who are in need. No one is expected to keep their money it goes for the good of the family. As a foreigner in Tanzania I must constantly keep in mind that I can spend more in a week than most people make in three months. I try to be careful about how I shop taking care not to buy too many items at one time. Theft is a problem in Tanzania. <br />
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</div>One last example is the Church in Tanzania is not just a place to go on Sundays, but a place for the people to meet and greet, it ties the villages together and creates a place where social events happen through out the week. Being in touch with God is a way of life in Tanzania. Morning prayers and church bells ring out each and everyday at 6:00am and through out the day. Church members join choirs and spend hours every week practicing hymns for a Sunday service. The choirs hold competions and compete for the best choir in their area. They even make CD recordings of their hymns and sell them to make money for their church. It is considered an honor to be part of a church choir. <br />
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</div>Writing tonight has helped my head to settle down. I see by the clock it is 6 minutes past midnight. Merry Christmas Evergreen, Merry Christmas Japan and Merry Christmas Tanzania!!Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-3968922143139213552009-11-29T01:50:00.000-07:002009-11-29T01:50:42.689-07:00Reflections...Primary School...Reflections on Teaching...Thanksgiving far from Home...<br />
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As I stood in Lecture Hall # 2 watching my class come in for the exam it occurred to me that this scene could be repeated anywhere. However, it wasn't; it was in Dodoma, Tanzania in a start up Christian university running on far less than is needed. As I walked around the room for test monitoring three lizards greeted me out one of the windows. They had been sunning themselves in the late afternoon sun on a few rocks near by. Now that you would not see in Denver, Colorado even in the summer. Strange I think, here I am on the eastern side of Africa in a dusty town of 350,000, teaching at a small university that hopes to educate students with a Christian foundation in Humanities, Nursing, Geography, Sciences, and Theology. In general teaching here is harder but the rewards of getting to know your students are greater. Most of my students must ride a local bus transportation system which is always breaking down, they have no computers or memory/flash drives and more rely on photo copied notes or hand written notes for studying. (come to think of it so did I when I went to college). More often the class is hot (4:00 pm) with no screens just open windows and most of the time my power point presentation projector will not work correctly. . But with a stroke of good luck and prayers my lectures usually start within 5 to 10 minutes and end on time. <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The photocopy situation is very good as we have several heavy duty copiers that usually do not break down. Printers are another story! Also the internet out of Kenya is not always reliable and can be off hours at a time, interfering with faculty and student's research for assignments. Personally, we use Vodacom, a wireless broadband system. It is expensive for here, about 45.00 U.S. per month but has unlimited use. So... as I watched, I thought about the difficult logistics to get the exam ready to give to 130 students. After they were seated David helped me distribute the exam. He had to be stern with a couple of students about talking and looking at each others test. He gave them the option of one of them moving or both of them out the door. A big problem here in the secondary schoools where these students come from do a "Talk and Chalk" approach because of limited resources. As a result the study model for students is to memorize the material and write everything they know for each question, often not fully understanding it meaning. I graded all 130 tests, and believe it or not, they all made at least a passing grade.<br />
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This week is Thanksgiving week and its hard not to think about it. What we are doing is having a Saturday evening dinner for all of the missionaries and us, plus a few other invited guests, about 20 people all total. No turkey, though, as they are only available for Christmas here. Chickens are having to do, plus a pork roast. Chickens, well, they are not very big, even those we bought at Two Sisters Grocery. Hopefully there will be enough. Everyone is bringing a traditional dish fixed the way they prepare it. Should be fun. Last night the Carrs had a belated birthday dinner for me and his wife who had a birthday this week. We had three kinds off pizza, none like the U.S. pizza, but very good!<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb94922iGBvTCrtAKpskJKhAJD2A9j-tCqEiMBy2o2ZzqhrJlFeGWo4sZ8b3OUGIGAOH_S6I50zvlb_E73o31gdlQIXssUeppBy2klcBmBaOwZDmvtWbws1immHo3VwiA6vnGy51Z_1E4/s1600/Primary+School+Visit+Nov+26th+Dodoma+011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb94922iGBvTCrtAKpskJKhAJD2A9j-tCqEiMBy2o2ZzqhrJlFeGWo4sZ8b3OUGIGAOH_S6I50zvlb_E73o31gdlQIXssUeppBy2klcBmBaOwZDmvtWbws1immHo3VwiA6vnGy51Z_1E4/s200/Primary+School+Visit+Nov+26th+Dodoma+011.JPG" yr="true" /></a>This week David and I went out to a k-12 village school (see pictures) and we were impressed with the eagerness of the students to learn even though the school had not windows or doors in some cases and 1100 hundred sudents wearing dingy, torn, and too large uniforms in most cases. The average number of students in Primary was between 60 and 70 per class. In secondary, about 40-50. This is a government school, not private. Private schools have better materials and equipment and teachers are paid more and tend to remain with the school long term.<br />
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</div> It is an understood fact that if someone with a white face visits, they assume you have lots of money to help their school. This is because so many agencies are trying to help Tanzanians in many areas, it gives that impression. The first thing we said was we are not missionaries, not from an international agency, but just volunteers. We have no agency supporting us. We only have at this point services to offer. Some disappointment but we discussed other ways we could help and it not cost much money. Visiting classrooms (see pictures) illustrated why it is chalk and talk.<br />
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</div> The students have a cheap notepad they write down everything the teacher puts on the board, often have to repeat the information in unison, yet they are very eager to learn.<br />
In the English class, Primary level 3, students introduced themselves (10 students picked at random). Their English pronounciation was excellent. The teacher is doing a good job with viturally nothing to work with!<br />
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David has finished writing the Master's in Special Education and it is ready to be reviewed by the various university committees.<br />
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I am sure it will need some amending, but the plan is to send it on to the Tanzanian Ministry of Human Services and Education for hopeful approval. <br />
The special education course for undergraduates he wrote will be offered in second semester (March 2010). While an optional course, he hopes he doesn't have 400 students enroll as there is a great deal of interest.<br />
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No word yet on our computer and phone. I can only assume they are gone forever. Every once in while I get a little sentimental over the loss of my mother's pictures and our oldest son's wedding pictures. But we now back up all our photos and data we type.<br />
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</div>Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-10687269020019647752009-11-19T21:23:00.001-07:002009-11-19T22:17:30.564-07:00Computer Grew Legs..Swimming...Company...Making Do<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKgP3H3lufdvyPrQqcq0YKfwNm1cLtRphhLuCBv2wipW5K63oAn1s6VWhtUkw-uv1E6Oj3WGKe3zK4H0lq9TBa4PcfCUg4zv_rMRuVcXpkJAqsuElxNwxYjkIK42hktAo4R0Bs2VRCle4/s1600/SDC10115.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: right; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKgP3H3lufdvyPrQqcq0YKfwNm1cLtRphhLuCBv2wipW5K63oAn1s6VWhtUkw-uv1E6Oj3WGKe3zK4H0lq9TBa4PcfCUg4zv_rMRuVcXpkJAqsuElxNwxYjkIK42hktAo4R0Bs2VRCle4/s200/SDC10115.JPG" yr="true" /></a><br />
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Today is Wednesday the 18th and it is my birthday!! Never thought I would be in Tanzania for a birthday, but God always changes your plans! It has been a difficult couple of week for us. This past Friday someone on campus stole our computer and phone right out of our office. David left the room for about three minutes to pick up a print copy down the hall only to return to an empty desk. Well, not entirely empty. The power cord was left behind as well as the computer case. That was a blessing we are told because the power cord is hard to find in Dodoma and our computer had no battery in the back. So our HP is useless unless someone can find the right cord and battery for it. In the meantime Davd and I are working hard to replace the lost lectures that were in the computer. Because our computer was to be our home away from home for calling family and friends,(Skype), pictures of life in Colorado with family and friends and pets, generally personal correspondence, etc., it feels like our life was ripped into pieces. Needless to say I have been very upset...but life is slowly returning to normal. Below is David wih the university car we use on weekends.<br />
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</div>The Vice Chancelor gave us his new in the box personal computer until other arrangements can be made. Everyone here has been wonderful and understanding but really can not help return the computer. One student in my Grammar class is a local police officer and personally was going to help with the recovery. All this is encouraging but now so many days have past we both feel we will not be getting the computer back. The thief has been in Dodoma computer shops trying to get a power cord. Now that they have been alerted they are waiting on this person to come back again. David had to go to the Police station to fill out a stolen property report. He says if you want to have a program that scares youthful offenders straight, the jail in this place would do it. Anyway, he gave his information and will wait to see what happens.<br />
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Saturday we took the UK family again to the swimming pool. <br />
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</div>The Dodoma Hotel has great pizza (but I am told it depends on the cook).<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Sunday we had Moses and Ruth over for lunch. Moses had just finished two Sunday services at the Cathedal for the local Tanzanians. (Service is not in English). Grace came all dressed up in red with cute little shoes. <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Here is David with little Grace. Moses has written a book, REAL POWER: Jesus Christ's Authority Over the Spirits. He points out from his research that many Tanzanians Christians still believe that the Spirit World is also needed because they don't believe that God answers their prayers soon enough to solve personal issues in their everyday life. He feels that missionaries and native Tanzanian ministers need to support both the spiritual and personal side of Tanzanians. The book is so popular that it had to be reprinted. Defintely worth discussing in Bible Study sessions.<br />
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Having the computer taken was devastating because I had all my Modules for the class on it. For Charlotte, it was even worse. She had loaded a lot of pictures, etc. because that was the easiest way to travel. We thought we could use a computer to reprint important ones. Nope! All the printers at St. John's are toner black and white due to difficulty getting ink refills. Everyone has been sympathetic because they know we are trying to help them get an education. They are embarassed by the epsiode. The good news is that all the computer shops are looking for it. The dummy who stole it doesn't have the power cord nor a battery and HPs are not normally sold in Tanzania. Some students have said please don't leave. I have no plans to let this situation deter me. I am more determined than ever! The police say that there is a ring of thieves that have stolen computers at the University of Dodoma making them think that is what has happened here. The University will replace it if its not found soon. I am using the Vice Chancelor's indefinitely. It was a new one still in the box. He is an excellent leader for the University.<br />
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The rain has made everything much greener and people are starting to plant gardens as they depend on them to eat. The rain in some ways has actually helped the dirt roads by packing them down but still deep mud puddles that could stall out a car. I am going to be able run a special education course next semester to sample interest in disabilities. Little or nothing is done for those with disabilities due to few teachers with training and little money to pay them. I got some help on my quest to get these future teachers to structure lessons to get students to think and problem solve. An education meeting was held in Dar es Salaam and it made the major papers. The focus was how to move from "Chalk and Talk" to a learner centered approach, exactly what I am stressing in class. "Chalk and Talk" refers to the instructor writing on the board and students copying the information down, memorizing for tests and to get ready for the national tests that allow you to enter a college or just graduate from secondary school. To be fair, a lot of the problem over the years has been a lack of supplimentary materials (How about basic course textbooks for a start?), resulting in a rut in how students are taught. Secondary schools including government schools are tuition based, not free.<br />
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Enough on these issues. Oh yes, one positive note. We are now hooked to two water storage sources giving constant water availability. We are going to a wedding on Saturday out in one of the villages. Let you know how that turns out.<br />
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Today is Sunday, November the 8th and it has been raining off and on since last night. What a relief to all of us. We still have no water today but no matter....the rains are coming and the weather is cooler. Everyone tells us we need to buy umbrellas but we can't find where to buy them. So for now we are making do...<br />
David requested one of the three cars the university keeps around again for today. I never thought I would say it but it is nice to be able to drive to church on our own and be independent for at least one day a week. After church we ventured to our market places ( David enjoys teasing the two retired sisters from India who own one of grocery stores) and then drove home only to find the electricity and water off. <br />
Oh well,that is Dodoma! <br />
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60 miles on dirt roads)<br />
Courtyard at Catholic retreat.<br />
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Tonight is Thursday( November 5th) and we have new pictures and a new camera. The week has gone fast! It was our first week with classes and a full schedule of seminars. Add in early morning Chapel, prayer meeting on Tuesdays, Bible Study on Wednesday (7:00 pm) and Choir practice on Wednesdays (4:00 to 6:00pm) and Saturdays I am one tired puppy this week. Not to mention the fact I am now recovering from a very bad cold I caught last week. With the week nearing an end and a retreat coming up at a conference center Friday night and Saturday, I decided to enter these pictures of the campus, We are still learning about our new camera...so don't expect too much. Just a footnote here on how our camera came to be. Yesse the young man who picked us up in Dar es Salaam (Human Resource Director) was going back to Dar on business and said he would pick us up one. SO....we gave him the money and here is our camera. Now you might ask why would we not buy one here in a town of 350,000 people. BECAUSE most things sold in Dodoma are either very cheap, or possibly an "old-new" camera and may not work well or they are very high end and cost more than they are worth. <br />
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Everyone told us to wait and buy in Dar or the United States when we were back there. Yesse was our knight in shinning armor. We are very grateful to him.<br />
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Yesse with David in Living Room..with camera!!<br />
We still have nothing up on our walls because the walls are concrete.<br />
All the pipes and electrical wiring are on the outside on the walls.<br />
If anyone has any suggestions would love them on how to hang things in concrete. (No special nails or screws are sold here!)<br />
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</div>This is the largest tree on campus over 150 years old in the background.<br />
There are places to sit around it for the students. It is one of the best places to be when it is hot which is everyday.<br />
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</div>This is David and Aurelia, my two seminar instructors. They also teach a class each with over 130 students in their second year of study.<br />
David teaches Dialects of English and Aurelia teaches the Oral Traditions of Africa along with myself doing Written Literature. There was bad traffic accident involving a professor from our English Department killing two people. Due to issues related to the accident he is unable to teach his Literature class so Aurelia and I were asked to take over. WOW!, what a difference taking on another class makes to my schedule when you include two more seminar classes per week to prepare for. So I said of yes,course, but hope he is back soon to teach.<br />
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David's (Reid) Curriculum and Methods class is waiting to get in the<br />
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His class now averages around 300 students for lectures.<br />
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He has been using a projector for his power points. Things are going better for his huge group now. David's course is on educational curriculum for secondary students.<br />
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Notice the way we keep our windows open with the now broken rulers.<br />
David and I are using the same computer (ours). Most professors use their own computer. Our little office has two desks, two chairs and a very small book shelf with a few of our books.Throw in a power strip and internet/printer connections and we have many things to tangle our feet.<br />
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David's assistant, Angelina teaching a seminar, one of 13 during the week. His other assistant Focus (pronounced Focooz) teaches half of the seminars as does Angelina. David acts as a mentor and guide to help them review lecture content and hear students make presentations on topics from the curriculum course. They will help "mark" test papers and other assignments for the 300 students.<br />
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My Week in Review (By David Reid)<br />
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This week has had both good and not so good things happen. Good is that the lectures are going well and lecture assistants are reinforcing the lecture content in the seminars. I am lucky to have two very competent people assisting me. I am working on an undergraduate course for all our future teachers to take on how to work with mild disabilities. The Dean has also asked me to put together a proposal for a possible master's degree in Special Education. I have completed the prospectus so far.<br />
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Things that did not go so well include not getting things printed in a timely manner, due to the department being sold "new-old toner" replacement that was only half full. It had to be taken back and demand a refund to go and buy one in the box that totally sealed with a manufactor's date. (Only $157.00 U.S.)<br />
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Next, the tech assistant was not at the checkout center for PowerPoint projectors and made me late to class for both lectures this week. Then another instructor put the power cord for the projector that Charlotte was to use in his own computer case leaving Charlotte without a cord to power her presentations ruining her lecture effectivness for the class. Finally, students were upset because if they did not have their ID card showing they had paid their tuition, they could not continue attending class. Naturally this left some students very unhappy.<br />
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It getting late about 10:00 p.m. here in Tanzania, but 11:00 a.m. in Denver, so I am signing off. The next blog entry will include our visit to the Catholic Retreat for a two day meeting of Anglican missionaries! Think about that for a moment.Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-49629194441318926592009-10-27T09:50:00.000-06:002009-10-27T09:50:51.628-06:00BACK TO SCHOOL!! SOUNDS OF MORNING AT ST. JOHN'S , WATER NEEDED! CHOIR AND SUNDAY SCHOOLBACK TO SCHOOL BY DAVID<br />
Well...the first week of classes has past and we have survived! I met my class for the first time and had about 100 students. I went over the course syllabus and explained the usual about importance of attendence, etc.<br />
It was a strugggle from the start. First, the power strip for the projector would not work properly, delaying class a few minutes. Second, I have to learn to slow down and re-explain often due to their English as a second language. My assistant instructor told me I had an accent. Like the British don't! Third I made the mistake of trying to handout a one page correction sheet for the seminar schedule. I was mobbed, pushed, and had the handouts taken out of my hands by the students. I hope they got a copy in the chaos. My assistant said don't hand out things but let them go to the copy shop a get a copy.<br />
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The second session went much better and I had 250 students show up. I slowed down and repeated information from the PowerPoint and this seemed to help a great deal. One of my goals is to get the future teachers to understand how to teach for understanding and not just memorize a lot on information to later forget. On Monday, yesterday, I think they are beginning to understand what I am trying to do.<br />
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Charlotte's classes went pretty well. She has only about a 100 student in one of the many smaller lecture halls and doesn't need a microphone. However she has to write on the board which needs resurfacing.So she bought some large chart paper and is supplimenting with that. She has three seminars later in the week. I have 13 seminars but my Assistants, both who have taught and have their Master's Degree or working to finish it, wanted to conduct the seminars and have me serve more as a mentor. They both are very capable.<br />
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I went to church twice this past Sunday, once to the 7:30 a.m. on campus where Charlotte now sings in the choir. Then at 9:30 a.m. at the Catheral where she teaches Sunday School for about 20 missionary and Tanzanian kids age 3-7 years. We had Communion at both. Wow, one more communion could make one begin to feel pretty good! (Not really, but it was an interesting morning.) . Later in the afternoon we went to Msalato to visit Moses and Ruth. Ruth and little Grace have had a touch of Malaria and Typhoid, but they are better now. Charlotte had made baby Grace a sweater and it just did fit her. Moses and Charlotte discussed her working at Msalato next semester. What she is doing here at St. John's is a good primer for her to teach English there. I will continue to teach here at St. John's. All in all the week went fairly well for us both.<br />
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MORNING SOUNDS OF DODOMA<br />
BY CHARLOTTE<br />
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I remember reading a person's blog before we left about all the noise in Dodoma. They were right! Long before a normal person would begin to stir the sounds of the day come floating into our bedroom. First there is the call to prayer which starts before the sun comes up. I am not sure how long it lasts because I am dozing. Then just when you think it is safe to fall asleep again here come the Catholic bells ringing loudly for a good three minutes or so. Next the local dogs pitch their howls in with the bells. Long after your head is left damaged a group of roosters down the street start to crow. Last but not least are a small group of pigs squeling for food. All this noise and it's only 6:00 in the morning!<br />
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WATER NEEDED<br />
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Dry and more dry...water is in short supply right now. Over the weekend we had a 24 hour period without tap water available. Our buckets are now half full with water. Everything needs water. Once last week we actually had a small shower which lasted about 15 minutes as a storm moved through. It didn't even wet the sand. The trees here are amazing though. They seem to thrive without water pushing out their flowers for the spring. Pink, red, purple, white flowers all creating a canapy of sorts. Once we get our new camera I will provide some spring time pictures. Right now the word on the street is that come early November the rains may begin. Due to global warming and deforesting of the local trees Dodoma has only one season for rain instead of the usual two. With its population growing the results will be difficult in the future! I hope and pray the city starts to increase ways to store water and to provide water to its people.<br />
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CHOIR AND SUNDAY SCHOOL<br />
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The local chapel choir I have joined is still very small. Not everyone from last year has returned to practice I am told and we are too many altos or base to carry a good tune. Oh well, it is still fun and close. I just walk around the corner to another house for practice. The couple that leads the choir have two very small children and are wonderfully dedicated to being missionaries. I have enjoyed interacting with their children. They are so cute and sound so British! (Reminds of the voices in Harry Potter movies.) Speaking of children, the Sunday School experience I may not help at all. The children really don't another adult since the activities are done in one large group with three other adults. That may change so I was asked to come back in another two weeks. David groaned and moaned about the two services but time went really fast at both.Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-25450673198761776142009-10-18T22:26:00.001-06:002009-10-19T09:56:35.453-06:00Back to School..and Cement Minature GolfSchool is starting at St. John's University on Monday, October 19th. Not all the new staff have arrived in either of our departments. Due to the economy and just Tanzanian cultural attitudes the first week here we have been told will get off with a slow walk. Most students will arrive during the week for the dorms or as a day student. Registration was this past week but only about 400 new students showed up to register. David's curriculum class will be the highest with perhaps over 400 students in the largest of the lecture halls. I may only have as many as 130 students in my one class on English Grammar and that will be held in a smaller lecture room. Each of us will have smaller cluster classes during the week relating back to our larger lectures (two in all) that was given to the total group. In each seminar we have an assistant who will help grade and actually review the main lecture material with students. These assistants will attend at least one lecture during the week and consult with us reguarding attendance, questions they might have and any other confusing topics.<br />
This system is not perfect but due to the lack of qualified teachers living here in Tanzania for many of the subjects it is the best alternative St. John's has at the moment. David and I will know by the end of two weeks how effective our teaching and this new system of departing knowledge will be. <br />
During last week the campus began to come alive. Students started moving into the dorms near our apartment, local Tanzanian professors started appearing and new students arrived everyday for orientations.<br />
Despite the lack of a book store and textbooks, most students I have met appear eager to learn and ready to start. St. John's ability to educate these students will rely solely on the professors and their oral lecture notes. Much of the learning in primary and secondary schools was done this way. (We are awaiting another shipment of textbooks that may allow more copies available in the library.) It takes time for cargo to get to Tanzania, get processed and then shipped overland to Dodoma These notes and other information needed to understand the topics taught, especially in the sciences and pharmacy, will be available at the photocopy shop on campus. Here the students must drop by and purchase a copy of the lecture notes and other materials available through the instructor. Textbbook are not available for purchase currently. We have provided several copies of selected texts that lectures are based and have those copied and bound for the library. These are put on two hour reserve and not allowed to leave the library. Both of us will be using our prior knowledge and the few textbooks we brought with us. Students are required to bring paper, pencils or pens to class. As for our teaching equipment David will have a projector for his power points due to the size of his classes.and also a microphone. I on the other hand will have a chalk board, chalk and talk loud..<br />
Wish us luck this week...and say a prayer!<br />
Sunday we visited a putt-putt golf course and pizza place! Our English (UK) neighbors down the road with two small children offerred to take us out for pizza and golf. On a Sunday afternoon we were the only people there (except for three Japanese young men). I don't think the concept of putt-putt has caught on here in Dodoma. Really its more like cement golf. Because of termites any wood in the ground is goobled up quickly and carried off for their building material. We all had a lot of fun especially the children, who ran around all over the course to play. This entertainment center even had grass, wonderful watered flowers and shrubs and an outside bar. I certainly hope it is successful....Dodomaians I am sure would love to experience <br />
"silly golf" as our UK family called it. Oh yes the pizza was really good also.<br />
Just a foot note here. We have now been without water for two full days now. Today David and I both braved using bottled water to wash out hair. Our buckets of water are running out and its getting harder to cook and clean up. I was told that this is a decision that the water company makes to conserve water. I would have thought that the college would be exempt from this policy but I guess not. Hopefully the water will be back on tomorrow...or we must buy more bottles of water.<br />
PS: No pictures for awhile our camera died and no one can repair a camera in Dodoma!<br />
Blessings,<br />
Charlotte and DavidCharlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-63251658983058433122009-10-14T02:12:00.004-06:002009-10-14T06:41:03.036-06:00Alive and Kicking! Little Things that Drive One Mad!! Classes Start Monday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Rx7UpSWMtgsPCH40dWSp9V3nsKa_fHyX5FRjSEhECpssBFOtjzFXMAhEduosWhjOthfyzTWJ83YR1DMV9obdheBCMcpCv_OBAVUF-7gPsC9dpHY31cHGaSCYTp1-BQtNzGPia8ocvaI/s1600-h/DSC00874.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img $r="true" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Rx7UpSWMtgsPCH40dWSp9V3nsKa_fHyX5FRjSEhECpssBFOtjzFXMAhEduosWhjOthfyzTWJ83YR1DMV9obdheBCMcpCv_OBAVUF-7gPsC9dpHY31cHGaSCYTp1-BQtNzGPia8ocvaI/s200/DSC00874.JPG" /></a><br />
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It's the day after our first left hand drive in Dodoma and we are still alive and kicking! David was a little nervous but I knew with his driving skills and road wits we would do fine. His left arm (which was broken last year), gave him some problems with the shifter because the linkage is too loose. But all in all he did great!! We went north toward the village of Msalato. On a Sunday there was not the normal traffic and people out on their bikes and walking. I don't know when we will get a university car again, possibly next Saturday when its not being used for offical business. There are more newly hired employees coming in to live on campus along with students who are arriving every day now into the dorms. Registration started this week with the usual campus confusions and "I don't have that information". David and I have not been asked to help this semester because we are so new. Then there's next semester! It seems to be a very big task especially with the lack of enough trained technical staff and computer programmers.<br />
Back to the drive. After our drive we treated ourselves to the restaurant inside the Hotel Dodoma near the old railroad station. No one there (No other Westerners due to CAMS School being on break)....we had the place to ourselves on a Sunday. This restaurant serves very good food for what we think is a reasonable price, $7.00 to $8.00 a dish (In the U.S. the equivalent cost would be $15.00-$20.00.) They serve a variety so we don't believe we will get bored. One does need to put up with flies...the restaurant is open on one end into a large inner courtyard where the hotel rooms look out onto a nice garden and outside eating/seating areas.<br />
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THINGS THAT DRIVE ME MAD!<br />
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Last night before prayer meeting (with a few of the staff here on campus) I invited two of our neighbors over for pizza. Now back home in Colorado or even North Carolina or Georgia (where we have lived before), making pizza is no big deal...but you can forget how difficult doing cooking can be without the right items or in my case conviences. For example...First, I had to make the pizza crust from scratch and my flour is of a darker mixture than the refined flour back home. Second, my measuring cup is in Centimeters which causes big converting problems for me (not a math person). I'm guessing how much is a cup or 1/3 cup and finding measuring spoons in the markets is impossible. Third, my wonderful little oven is in Celsius degrees, which until my neighbor explained the right temperatures to use, was a complete mystery to me! Therefore a few attempts have either gone flat or came out toasty.! Next, to make matters worse I must wash all the veggies and peel the skin off the tomatoes before I slice them. Now that is a royal pain believe -you -me. <br />
In addition, the cheese needed to be grated on a grater, mushrooms came in a can (no fresh ones here), and just <strong>try</strong> finding a pizza pan in Dodoma! All in all though, the pizza turned out fine. It's amazing how one can be fairly resourceful when called upon. Our prayer meeting was just right next door so we all walked over and read passages from Isaiah and our neighbor led us in open prayers.<br />
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</div>Once arriving in Dodoma to my amazement I discovered that hot water in my kitchen sink is not always reliable due to the city turning off the water at odd times and we have remeber to turn on the hot water tank a few minutes before use. Now this does not mean I have the only problem...this seems to be norm due to the water tanks and shortage of running water. So all over Dodoma in the markets one can find places that sell hot water thermoses. You just keep your hot dish water in the thermos bottle by your sink to use in your dish water. (Yes, you do need to heat your cold water first in a pot.) Then using a plastic bowl in your sink you fill that with half cold and some hot. Rinsing is not easy, you either need another good size bowl or must use really cold water from your sink facuet. I'm getting use to the routine but really miss the one facuet with hot and cold running all together!! Oh the little things that drive one mad.....!<br />
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My Concerns by David <br />
Three things have me concerned. One, I need to get a watch by next Monday to know when classes start and end, etc. Two, Charlotte and I are sharing one computer to prepare our coursework. Three, we need our own printer to check our work quickly, especially at home. On campus we are connected to the College of Education printer but several faculty use it, meaning much sharing (Am I selfish?). So far the only kind we have found sold here is about $375.00 U.S. and is heavy duty office use. Anyone out there who would like to donate a cheap black and white print, printer? Color is not a good choice due to finding color refills.<br />
I am in the process of finishing my powerpoints for the courses I am teaching. I had to rearrange the sequence in one course to make it flow better and edit previous powerpoints to fit other courses. The one really positive thing is that I have a excellent young Indian women who seems very capable and has flawless English. She will help me with seminars and will do some lecturing where she feels she has the expertise.<br />
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I want anyone who reads this blog to appreciate what is happening here. This is the unversity's third year and will graduate its first undergraduate class next spring. The key people here have worked 24/7 to make it happen. It is not easy to start a university on a limited budget (Enrollment this year may grow to 3,000.). They have done a fantastic job! Charlotte and I will do everything we can to help in this wonderful endeavor. But there is much lacking in the day to day supplies of running and keeping up a university. They could use basic teaching materials such as white dry erase boards, overhead projectors, paper for copiers, copiers themselves, notebooks, binders, shelving for books, desks and chairs for teachers and students, small printers for our personal laptops we use, and in general we need a student book store with used textbooks for rent or sale. The university moved its library into a renovated building when a wonderful donation of over 80,000 books arrived last year. They have recently completed renovation of several smaller buildings to house new and old staff from the administration building as well as more classroom space. This complex was once a boys' secondary boarding school for about 1200 students (800 dorm and 400 day). The school was built in the 1960's and the campus was given to St. John's U. by the TZ government to get things started. It sat closed until reopened as St. John's University of Tanzania. Much repair was needed to many of the buildings. As of yet, it is still on an 'as needed' basis when donations arrive.<br />
Pictures are of St. John's main administration building ...more to come as classes start!<br />
This ends this segment.Charlotte and Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717071782868069001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210378217753801286.post-86717821741004432942009-10-09T05:14:00.007-06:002009-10-11T05:22:59.404-06:00Buckets Everywhere! Sounds of Morning! Transportation in Dodoma!Today is Thursday, October the 9th and we have just had our first water shortage here at the homestead!<br />
It seems that if you run your tank dry for some reason you can not fill your tank easily the next day. It will take longer to fill with water than the water may be running. The other problem is pressure. Simply put you have little..and when you have little pressure you have little cold or hot water. So for about a day and night our two apartments had little water. The Tanzanians seem to know how to deal with this problem. Their solution is to fill large barrels and buckets with extra water (the plastic water can salesman at the market is very popular) and store these plastic containers until needed. So I now have one red large bucket and one green bucket with lids and water inside standing in my kitchen! Lovely site! <br />
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But there's more. Once you get your water from the city you may need to boil it before drinking and using it to wash your veggies and fruits. Today I spent a good three hours boiling cooking water and water I can wash my fruits and veggies in..... PLUS I also need to keep hot water handy to wash my dishes in each time. WHY you ask? Because there is may not be hot water coming out of my kitchen sink area!<br />
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You can see water has suddenly become very important in my daily life. Not to mention that it is very dry here and sand blows everywhere. Yes, drier than Denver but not hotter at the moment. People who are local say that will change soon and it will start to rain in late October.<br />
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Sounds of Morning<br />
I haven't said much about the mornings here. From where we are living the city sounds of Dodoma don't really reach our ears, BUT the local Mosque certainly does! Right at daybreak the call for early morning prayer goes out over our part of town. It's rather nice in a way waking up to call for prayer to God. Starts my day on a positive note and the Lord knows I need that right now!<br />
Of course long before prayer call, the roosters are up crowing along with the various packs of semi kept dogs that run around the campus. By dawn the noise is so loud you just get up and deal with the water tank heater (which must be turned on about 20 minutes before a shower).<br />
People in Dodoma get up and moving early here. Lots of schools start by 7:30 am and children and adults are out walking the streets and dirt roads to town or to their schools. (No busing for children in Tanzania as I can see..cost is too high..you get a ride or walk.)<br />
Usually by 7:30 or 7:45 am I can hear a drum band practicing in the distance and later school children playing outside. These are the sounds in the morning that I cherish . They remind me of home.<br />
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A typical 4wd Vehicle in Dodoma<br />
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</div>Transportation in Dodoma <br />
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Transportation in Dodoma is an interesting and widely varied process. First there are those who are fortunate enough to have a car. Cars are fine in town and on the other paved roads. However as you go directly south, north, or west, the main roads are all dirt. In town all the side streets are dirt, rough and narrow. What really is needed is a 4wd SUV to clear the large potholes and big rocks that often stick up in the dirt streets and roads. Locals here seem to pay no attention to the roughness and drive fast (50 mph+) like it was smooth and paved.<br />
The art of driving. First, you need a Tanzanian license. One of the university drivers said he would get my license for me. He needed a photocopy of my passport picture, work/resident visa, U.S. driver's license, and 12,000 shillings (About $ 9.00 U.S.) and he would get it for me. He was gone about an hour and came back with the license. Fair enough, but I still have to go to the police station and have them put a stamp on it.<br />
Now actual driving requires having eyes similiar to that of an insect (lots of eyes and 360 degrees view). You need to see well on both sides, straight ahead, and remember you driving on the left side of the road as well as dodging people walking, or sort of wandering in the road, those riding bicycles on both sides of the road as well as suicide taxi drivers who seem to drive anywhere they want. Did I mention a lot of motorcycles? There are few stop signs or other roads signs so you are on your own!<br />
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The Ideal Vehicle to have in Dodoma<br />
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Our neighbor has the ideal vehicle. Its an older Toyota Land Cruiser (mid 90s) that has heavy duty leaf springs, 3 inch shackle lifts giving the 4wd drive plenty of ground clearance, a large winch on the front, turbo diesel, axle housing braces, excellent luggage rack on top and oversized wheels and 6 ply tires. Its very comfortable, even has a sunroof and air conditioning. It has a 24 volt electrical system, too.<br />
To give a perspective, if you wanted to go north to Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti, you would need to drive on about 150 miles of dirt roads before you hit the paved road from Morogoro to take you the rest of the way. Having gone north part of the way to visit the Catholic Retreat, it is a rough road!<br />
This Sunday Charlotte and I will take a solo drive in one of the cars owned by the University . Report will follow later!<br />
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