Friday, June 14, 2019
I arrive at HQ to find that we’re going to have to make another trip to the chemist. We quickly arrange the morning sessions—which are overstaffed, you’ll recall—so that everything is covered. Then the...
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Saturday, June 15, 2019
Safari! Technically, that’s just the Swahili word for “trip,” and a related agent word just means “traveler,” but in the west we always associate it with shooting wild game in Africa, with guns or...
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Sunday, June 16, 2019
Last Sunday at Tumaini. Last time at church. The service follows the usual pattern—which is not to imply that it’s just going through the motions. There’s a liveliness in the opening singing, in the...
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Monday, June 17, 2019
First day of the last week of tutoring. Cheyenne’s day starts off with a bang. Out at the lake end of the guys’ house is a nice big rock with a great view of the lake, where some of the crew likes to...
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This will be a relatively brief post. As I’ve noted earlier, the tutoring days begin to assume a uniformity. The crew notes that today the children seemed to be less cooperative, a little more...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019
A bright, sunny day, in the morning at least, and lots to be thankful for. But the children continue to be difficult—not all of them, of course, but enough to make it noteworthy. We have a bit of a...
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Thursday, June 20, 2019
Morning at Tumaini. The night has been typical. Dogs have been howling intermittently; the Alarm Rooster starts going off around 4, and the birds bring their more musical tones to the chorus between 5...
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Friday, June 21, 2019
This, our last full day here at Tumaini, begins like any other. The crew is quiet at the house, some because that’s how they are in the morning, and some because it’s the last day here. I make my...
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Saturday, June 22, 2019
Time to go. I do the morning ablutions and then finish packing, thinking carefully about what goes in the checked bag and what goes in the carry-on. Both bags are well under weight limits. Strip the...
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Sunday, June 23, 2019
A few minutes after we settle in to our overnight crash pad, airport staff tells us we can’t lie on the floor, so those folks climb back up into the seats. Which are not really comfortable enough to...
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