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 2:30 or so.
The
next day we toured the primary and secondary schools where Allison and Mary
were going to teach and help out. I was impressed some of the large dormitory rooms where bunk beds for 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 in to 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.
Well, I guess you were able to get to it after all.
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