Monday-Feb.14th

Monday-Feb.14^th -  It wasn't easy to get up this morning.  The weather is cool and the cover felt so good that I did not want to get out of bed, but finally did.  We had breakfast and Kim and Faye started washing clothes.

Tom, the internet guy, is here trying to get wireless working.  So far, no luck.  We are ready to tell him to forget it.  There is an alternative.  It is like a zip drive stick that plugs into your computer.  With that power stick and a powered up computer  you have internet with or without electricity.  You can send and receive email, check facebook and update blog anytime and from any place in Tanzania.  What a deal, huh?

Well the fundi (the expert) just left without success in getting the wireless hooked up.  Not too surprising is it?  Frustration expresses the feelings of all of us.  So tomorrow I will exercise option 2 (the stick).

Kim is working with Joha (pastor's wife) translating Sunday School lessons from English to Swahili.  Joha will be teaching the kids now.

After supper we watched TV for awhile before going to bed.

Tuesday-Feb.15^th -  I am told that the weather is unusually cool for Tabora this time of the year.  Still it is probably around 70 degrees.

Just as we were ready for lunch, here came three men from the telephone company.  Two of them were “Big Wigs”.  Their purpose was to dissuade us from giving up on their wireless service.  After some discussion they left to work on something at their office that they thought might fix the problem.  They do not want to have to return the money for the wireless router!

Joha came over again this afternoon for Kim to translate some more on the lessons.  She certainly is a sweet lady.

Tim and I went to Vodafone and purchased a Vodaphone Mobile Broadband USB stick for internet service.  When we got home Tim could not get it to work because they had failed to activate it so he went back and finally have it now working.  And without electricity or internet hookup we can send and receive email also facebook.

We were invited to Dr. Ruth's house for supper.  It consisted of a pasta dish (hamburger, pasta, with a white sauce), slaw, beans, spaghetti with marinara sauce, garlic bread and a delicious cake and fruit salad.  We all enjoyed the meal and a time of fellowship.  With full stomachs we headed home.

A special thanks to Bill for doing most of the writing on the blog!