If You Were Born A Maasai Woman

Have you ever considered what your life would be like if you were born into a different culture. If you were born a Maasai woman then your life would be different in so many ways. I often pray for the Maasai women and children here in Tanzania. Your life may be similar to this... You wake up and wrap yourself in a cloth that you have laid out to wear today. You only have one pair of sandal shoes, so you slip those on your feet. You them begin to sweep your one one dirt floor home and wait until tomorrow to fix the grass roof. You also notice that tomorrow you might need to gather some more cow dung and mud for the walls and floor. You will...

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Trashy Toys

Toys in Tanzania... There are many toy options for children in Tanzania. Most Tanzanian children make their own toys from trash found along the road. You will often see that their soccor balls are made from wadded up trash. The toys that are avaliable for sale are usally stuffed dolls. These dolls are shipped from second hand stores in America, like Goodwill, to Tanzania. They are often dirty and broken but sometimes you can find some cute things. I don't mind buying second, second, hand things so I thought I would stop buy one of these side street places and buy some "new" dolls for the kids. When examining them I noticed that they were...

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Around The Neighborhood

The kids and I have made up a song to go along with the bumps. It is to the tune of, Here comes Santa clause. We sing.... Bumpity bump bump, bumpity bump bump, bumping up and down, bumpity bump bump, bumpity bump bumping all the way to town. The area of Iringa is rocky, sandy, and hilly. It is really pretty during the rainy season. It is higher in elevation than most places. I Love this because it means that it is cooler. We have pretty great temperature all year round.                                                                                 This...

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Blog Revised

This picture is of the day that we moved to Tanzania ~ December 31st 2007 / January 1st 2008 ~ (We left the U.S. on the 31st, and arrived in TZ on the 1st) Ok, I have officially started my blog over.. Again. I am posting it to Blogger so that maybe I won't have as much trouble with keeping up the post. I also wanted a new format that made it easier to post, instead of having to re-publish the whole website as I was on iweb. Soo here it is. I will try to "back post" some of my previous entries. My goal is to post more often and about everything more in general. I think that people might be interested in the whole picture of what life is like...

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