The last time I posted on this blog, I promised to be faithful to writing. Yikes! Two plus years later and I never fulfilled that promise. Now this morning I woke up and decided to try again. There really is plenty to write about; I just need to remember to notice it and write about it.
I’ll start with yesterday. I enjoyed a very nice visit with my godchild, Jocelyn Kitakwa. Her father was a music student of mine in Dar es Salaam in the early ‘70’s (!) and during that time he got married in the southern part of Tanzania and I travelled there for the wedding (after already having made the wedding dress for the bride, never having laid my eyes on her). We have remained friends throughout the years, and at the birth of their third daughter, I was asked to be her godmother. Jocelyn is in Dodoma for a couple of weeks, playing sports (netball is her game) for her work place. There is a huge competition going on now in Dodoma with teams from all the different government agencies competing in sports like athletics, netball, football (soccer), bicycle riding and my favorite, chicken catching! Jocelyn’s team didn’t have a match yesterday afternoon so she came to visit, and it was wonderful. When I took her back to her hotel, I also met her older sister, Massa, who, with her husband, is in town for a meeting of the Tanzania Law Association. Massa is a lawyer with the Civil Aviation Commission and her husband is also a lawyer. It was very good to catch up on news of the family.
On Monday school reopens after a two week mid-term break. Actually, the 2nd and 4th year students didn’t go home because they have serious national exams coming up in the next couple of months and so they stayed at school to continue their lessons. But my first year students were home so I’ve had a nice break. It was a blessing to have had that time to remember the family and mourn the passing of Monte.
I won’t exhaust all observations and news that might be interesting to readers so that may prod me into writing regularly. Let’s hope!
