MY EXPERIENCES IN NGARENAIROBI A VILLAGE NEAR SANYA JU
Sunday, October 23, 2011
JACK GOING BACK
I have decided to return to Ngarenoirobi and will arrive there on jan 5 2012 to continue the Ultrasound teaching. I have great Joy returning to my African family.
This is Jack's first post to the blog after returning to Tanzania:
January 15 2012 I arrived after midnight of Jan. 6, my beloved grandmothers birthday. This was the very day I had planned after praying for guidance; but when Fr Mark Mlay asked me to accompany Mary Laguerre who had already made her reservations, I selected the same day she had made her reservations so that she would have companionship because of her young age and being her first trip. However, delayed flights caused Allison Lawton and I to spend a day in Atlanta as guest of Delta Airlines to catch the same flight 24 hours later. We arrived in Kilimanjaro Airport late as well and didn’t get to Fr Joseph Israel’s house in Soweto section of Moshi town till after 1 am. The kind priest offered us food and we finally hit the sack 2:30am or so. The next day we toured the primary and secondary schools where Allison and Mary are going to teach and help out. I was impressed, some of the large dormitory rooms had bunk beds where 40 or so students would sleep. I appreciated the wonderful intense social life these students would enjoy under the guidance of The Nuns of Our Lady of Usumbara. We enjoyed the Warm welcome of The Nuns and The Priests of Aposotolic Life Community of Priests in Santi Spiritu and being welcomed into their Community life. Allison and Mary were doing quick studies of the language and answering people in Swahili. On Sunday Fr Joseph Israel took the three of us on a trip to his parents’ house that none of us will ever forget, I am sure!
This is Jack's first post to the blog after returning to Tanzania:
ReplyDeleteJanuary 15 2012
I arrived after midnight of Jan. 6, my beloved grandmothers
birthday. This was the very day I had planned after praying for
guidance; but when Fr Mark Mlay asked me to accompany Mary Laguerre who had already made her reservations, I selected the same day she had made her reservations so that she would have companionship because of her young age and being her first trip. However, delayed flights caused
Allison Lawton and I to spend a day in Atlanta as guest of Delta
Airlines to catch the same flight 24 hours later. We arrived in
Kilimanjaro Airport late as well and didn’t get to Fr Joseph Israel’s
house in Soweto section of Moshi town till after 1 am. The kind priest
offered us food and we finally hit the sack 2:30am or so.
The next day we toured the primary and secondary schools where
Allison and Mary are going to teach and help out. I was impressed,
some of the large dormitory rooms had bunk beds where 40 or so
students would sleep. I appreciated the wonderful intense social life
these students would enjoy under the guidance of The Nuns of Our Lady
of Usumbara.
We enjoyed the Warm welcome of The Nuns and The Priests of
Aposotolic Life Community of Priests in Santi Spiritu and being
welcomed into their Community life. Allison and Mary were doing quick studies of the language and answering people in Swahili.
On Sunday Fr Joseph Israel took the three of us on a trip to
his parents’ house that none of us will ever forget, I am sure!