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| We have early rain...everything is beautiful & green |
We arrived in Moshi last Sunday night, grateful that all
flights were on schedule. Sadly, our
scheduled arrival coincided with John’s big meetings, and we had to give up the
opportunities to travel business on a variety of airlines in order to get the
stranded travelers out. Sighing over the
“we cannot do it, but wouldn’t business class be just wonderful”, we did not
heed the call. And at the end of the
day, all our bags arrived, but not my ipad.
I’m so sad. I was just told that
I can e-mail Apple and they may at least be able to tell me where it is. I have
done all the other things—airlines, airports etc. Anyway, sad.
But no time to grieve, as immediately John jumped into work. He had a
huge meeting to attend and help with and with that also arranging a dinner with
the director of the Fogerty Center International and all our students who had benefited from Fogerty support.
Unpacking, organizing, buying food and beverages would have
been much easier but for the 13 baby rats and their “mommy and daddy” living in
our old Rav4. They had munched on
essential wires and the car had a certain odor of pee. So, Monday was spent taking these above
mentioned rats to the “farm”, and airing out the car, calling our car fundi who
loyally came over and pieced the car together once more. Kindly I am not including the picture of the
nest!
I did have the opportunity to wake up and see our newest
baby –Lucy’s little Jonathan. He is
loving sleeping during the day and screaming during the night. As the week went on and Pauli unpacked the
little swing, bouncy chair combination, things have improved, and Lucy has
determined that pacifiers are not a bad thing at all.
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| 20 minutes after I woke up...no face wash, hair or teeth..but happy |
Rose and I worked all day to make the dinner happen, and though we do not have 22 chairs, and I could not figure out how we could make it work, it did. In fact, it was fabulous, thank you Rose and "El Rancho" one of our local Indian Restaurants. The dinner was a great success. We were all stuffed, and I was amazed that
the Fogerty director worked his way around 19 people, hearing their stories and
writing notes. No wonder he has earned
this high position.
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| Jonathon & Bernard |
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| Dorothy, Francis, Dr. John |
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| Esther & Daudi |
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| wow the gang's all here |
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| There was a captive audience! |
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| Ahazi & Paschales |
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| Peyton & Katie |
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| Listening closely!!! |
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| Conversations about the night |
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| Dr. John is not telling about his terrible day |
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| Jan holding court! |
We moved on to a great clinical conference given by
Catherine and her group. Their practice
clearly showed. Best thing that we can
do…give our partners an opportunity to show their own work, and have them
practice ahead of time. It was great.
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| Catherine's presentation |
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| These great team members! |
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| Awesome team! |
The Community advisory board met in the afternoon, and it
was as usual an interesting meeting. The
Youth CAB presented their meetings and some of the things that had happened as
a result. I was so proud of those that
spoke up. They were very brave and put
forth extremely good questions. The
older members were pretty surprised and tried to give responses. We are so excited about the marathon. The Moshi CAB will have 31 5K runners this
year. Thanks to GLOBAL CONNECTIONS FOR
CHANGE for sponsoring this group for the race and for the Youth CAB meetings.
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| Youth CAB presenting |
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| Stella--never afraid to talk and such a good mentor for others |
The week continued with meetings and discussions and lots of
practice for the marathon. I have spent
time holding little Jonathan and talking about all the newborn things. So much fun.
Running up the road and seeing all the people who go “oh mama where have
you been”. And then finally today
returning to St. Margaret’s Anglican and seeing all our old friends, and
relishing the new pastor who is a thoughtful and lovely man—along with his
wonderful family.
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| Jason, our new priest, is very active...and quite funny! but also really awesome |
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| Our little congregation is filling up!!! |
Life is good. Now
onto week, two.
