School Days, School Days...

Today was our second day of class. The sisters are already sharing, talking and helping one another. One picture shows us all up and switching partners as we introduce ourselves and talk about what we do. The other picture shows Margaret teaching a sister from Mozambique.  We are off to a great start.

Celebration

This is Corpus Christi Sunday. The Mass at the parish church in Masasi was beautiful. Children processed and danced, there was beautiful music. Fr Mukasa , a Salvatorian priest presided.  After the two and a half hour Mass, we processed to different stations for Benediction. A very meaningful experience.

Jubilee Prayers from Tanzania

Congratulations to all those celebrating their Jubilee! We are sending good wishes and prayers.

Today was our first class. It went well. We have two sisters from Mozambique. They know some English and are really trying hard. S. Edesia and S. Sara have been in the class before and are learning and helping at the same time. We will have two more sisters from Tanzania in class on Monday.  Still no word from the Congo sisters. We hope they can join us. And this afternoon two candidates arrived who will also be joining the class.

As you can see by this picture, we had no electricity tonight at dinner.  Thank goodness for solar flashlights.

Happy Jordan Day!

Happy Jordan Day! It was a busy day for us. We set up the classroom and are ready for our first class on Saturday.  

There was a beautiful Mass to celebrate Jordan Day. It was held in the sister's chapel. I counted 11 priests, over 25 sisters, and about 20 men in formation.  After Mass there was a dinner and celebration.  It was also the end of their retreat which included the Spiritual Diary of Fr Jordan which is now translated in Swahili.

Lesson Plans and More

Today we actually wrote some lesson plans and looked through our class materials that are stored here. All is well!


This is a picture of us with the statue of Blessed Mary of the Apostles that stands in the garden in front of the chapel.

It's Wednesday in Tanzania...

...and it's nice and quiet around here.

We will think of these quiet days when we are busy with teaching. 

Our day started with Mass in Swahili with Fr Jim presiding. Then we walked to town to the ATM machine. It worked!! And now we both have some Tanzanian Shillings. 




In the late afternoon 
we walked with Fr Jim to town and enjoyed a great conversation, catching up on the latest from the US and Tanzania.

Getting Ready to Start

Here is the before picture of our classroom, no books, materials or students... but soon it will be filled with fun and noise and learning.  We are getting ready to start.