It's raining, the farmers are smiling and even the chickens are happy!

 

This week has been an interesting week, on Tuesday it felt like was Friday for me, maybe I am beginning to feel the effects of the hard work I put in the last 8 or so weeks, either way what has been nice is the cool mornings we have been experiencing the last 2 weeks, it seems that the weather is changing and we have been getting a lot off rain lately, on Wednesday as I left the house after lunch it started to drizzle and by the time I got to the college I was wet, not to wet as I had my raincoat on which protected me from the rain to a large extend. This I think was the first time I experienced the rain during the day as it has normally only rained at night when everyone and everything was indoors, everywhere it is wet and green, and this is making the farmers happy as they can now plant their crops and hopefully fill up their food stocks.

Work in the library is going ahead full steam and I estimate that I will finish phase 1 of the project by next week Saturday. The ladies are now sweeping the library every 2nd day and this help in trying to keep the place clean, I have asked for students to come for training on the new system and for them to have their books issued on the new system so that they can get into the habit of using the system. I have had to return the camera I was using to its owner so I don't think I will have any more pictures to take I am however hoping to ask the girls for some of their pictures which I will then post at a later stage, the staff meeting on Thursday went well and did not go on for to long, it was mentioned by the principle that I have not spoken in chapel yet, I am doing the praise and thanksgiving service on the 24/03, this will be 5 days before I leave Tanzania and head back to South Africa via Kenya.

If all goes according to plan, I should finish phase 1 of my project by next week Saturday, then for the last 2 weeks I will focus on training the students on how to effectively run a library. Next weekend we are welcoming another bible college for a day off sport which should be great fun and I am looking forward to playing Soccer and Volleyball, hopefully my knees will withstand all the training we will be doing in the cumming week. On Friday we played soccer and old age has definitely caught up with me, but the fact that we could have some fun was great. The weekend was spend playing card games and on Sunday I spend about 2h30 hours in the library inputting ISBN numbers as I am planning to download a full and accurate record of about 300 books from the internet on Monday, this will be the last of phase 1 and starting off a next phase will be done by the students as I start to train the student librarians on how to know the system and library procedures accurately.