15 April 2010

Sadly it had to come to an end :

 My time in Tanzania has now officially come to an end and it was with sadness that I had to say goodbye to friends who became like family to me over the 3 months that I was in Bulima.  On Wednesday I let the morning chapel service and I briefly spoke on doing the will of God my topic was "Here I am Lord sent me" and the bible reading came from Genesis 46:2 and 1 Samuel 10:3 I ended off by reading the words of a song called "Here I am Lord" by Daniel L Schutte.

 The words of the chorus is Chorus

Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord?

I have heard you calling in the night.

I will go, Lord, if you lead me.

I will hold your people in my heart. 

Those 2 verses and song were constantly on my mind during the last 3 weeks I was in Tanzania.  My time in Bulima started like it ended with 2 weeks of constant power outages, fortunately everything I set out to do was accomplish with the exception of 1 practical training which I had to do but because of the power failures I never got around to do that hopefully with the instruction I left the student librarians will be able to work out what needs to be done in this regard.  The last week was basically spend doing almost next to nothing because of the power failures which basically gave my body a change to relax after almost 3 months off slaving away in front of the computer.

 On Thursday we had a semi sent for me with the girls as they were leaving for Mwanza the next day to show M sister around town and it would be the last time we were all together to socialize with 1 another, Friday we had a staff party for me as I was leaving that Sunday by bus to travel to Nairobi.  The ride down in the bus to Nairobi was uneventful although it seems that bus drivers are in competition with 1 another to see who could get to their destination the quickest.  The road in Kenya is much better than in Tanzania except for 1 stretch of road where the bus driver had to avoid holes in the road basically every 2 meters. I arrived in Nairobi at 03h30 and at Mayfield guest house at 05h15 where I slept for 2 hours before heading to breakfast even though I was not hungry.