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.

Rest Day

Today it is very hot here in Bulima and I am suffering a little bit after a long walk up to the cellphone towers and along some farms in town, I even did a 30m run up the hill without to much trouble from my knees which is a good sign for me meaning that my knees are at last beginning to recover. I am hoping to start downloading the library data base soon, I am just awaiting final confirmation from the AIM leader who is currently on home assignment in the US. I have spoken to 1 or 2 off the lecturers and they are quite happy with it, the Internet is showing signs of recovery and that will play an important role in the job that lies ahead as it will be much easier for me to download the books information on to the system.

There are not many students around in the library as the college only has about 40+ students. Most if not all of them also work for the college either in the library the farms or at some off the teachers homes, they all also have to play in role in keeping the college grounds clean and everyone has an assigned role to play, most off the students live on the grounds, some are married with kids and they live off campus. Tuesdays and Fridays are Bank days when the students get paid for the work they did during that time, this can take anything from 2 Hours to 4 hours to finish the bank, my host came home at about 20h45 on Tuesday as he is in charge whiles the team leader is away.

Today the library was cleaned and I am quite happy about that as I have set out certain goals for the library Assistants that needs to be met whiles' I am here. I believe that this will take more than 3 months to finish and I would like to see the job through to completion even if I have to come back later in the year to finish the assignment, please commit this to pray as I go about my job, if you want to get involved in this either financially or with pray please feel free to contact me houties@live.com or on +255682060971, my work permit expires on the 09/02 and I still need to have it renewed, hopefully for free.