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| The most amazing Bug |
With our final days in Moshi facing us, we dodged our way
into some chaos—definitely always, packed days.
We had massive rain on two days, which left things very very muddy, but
also brought some of the most amazing bugs I have ever seen.
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| Amazing moth on our porch |
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| The most amazing bug I have ever seen | |
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| flying moth |
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| Honda Honda birds waiting to get avocados |
The rains also brought down more avocados. My highest count is 15 in one day. We cannot eat that number clearly, but
everyone in the compound is enjoying our fabulous tree!
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| No way to show the avocados on the ground...just trust me! |
Pauli and Lucy's Jonathan turned 3 months old this week. Now all he wants to do is stand and is smiling from ear to ear. Things change so very much with babies and so quickly. Makes me miss my granddaughter and get more and more excited about our new grandchild to be born.
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| He is quite a little man now |
We participated in a Cancer Symposium that was very
interesting. A group of MD’s from
Minnesota is raising money to build a proper Cancer Center at KCMC. KCMC was supposed to be one of the cancer
centers in the country some years ago, but as politics are always complicated,
so has gone the cancer center. But these
Radiologists are committed, and have been working for the past year to raise at
least enough money to get a specialized Radiation Therapy project going and we
all hope that they are successful. John
wound up being quite a bit more involved than he had first imagined.
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| Dinner with leads at Cancer Center Fundraising at A-5 |
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| Daudi talks about Alibinism and Cancer |
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| Dr. Olomi opens the Symposium |
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| Masenga talks about Skin Cancers |
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| Note the bright colored flags. The group climbed the Kilimanjaro carrying prayer flags. |
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| Our very own Mzee Radiologist Helmut Difenthal discussing Retinoblastoma |
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| My very own John talking about the MEPI, KCMC/Duke collaborative |
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| Mark Jacobson speaking about needs for Cancer Care in this area |
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| Our younger Masenga talking about Cervical Cancer (Tz highest rates in Africa) |
The final part of the week was filled with our plans for
setting the hash on Sunday, and visiting our friends Nic and Sylvie who, as I
have said previously, have one of the most peaceful homes I have ever been to,
and who are dear dear friends. Makuru Farm is stunningly beautiful with views of the Pare mountains on one end and almost bookend views of the two big mountains. There is something about newly planted crops, corn, beans, and of course the older coffee plants, the smell of the soil and green that is magical.
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| John walking a trail |
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| walking through beans and corn |
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| Irrigation pond around which the hash was set |
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| Honey boxes (I saw tons of bees--yea!) |
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| Dudu meowing at birds that torture him flying all around at sunset |
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| Hash group after running (3 cases of beer, 4kg of pork, 4 batches of cookies, 4 doz each samozas and spring rolls) |
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| John, Bob Kassworm and a very gorwn Nikoli chat |
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| Friends try on cute sun hats |
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| Trish and Terrie lovin' our beer! |
So, with the sunset on both Mt. Mehru and on Kilimanjaro, we
face our last week in Moshi for this trip!
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| Kilimanjaro right after sunset |
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| Mehru sunset |
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