Author Archives: jfeser
Waiting for DHL
- Aug
- 29
So here we are, waiting at DHL in Arusha, hopefully in the last few minutes of what has been a long run trying to get Christine and Natasha’s passports so we can go to Canada. We’re supposed to fly Monday. DHL closes at 1PM – see the clock? But just as long as the truck […]
read morePreparing to Learn
- Jan
- 16
It’s been a while since I’ve been in school. Now here I am, ready to embark on a new educational experience. No, I’m not going for a Masters degree (yet), nor am I trying for some professional certification (is there one for the field of non-profit management?). What I am doing is embarking on a […]
read moreQuite an Entry, My Son!
- Mar
- 23
Well Ben, you sure know how to make an entry! Yesterday (Monday) morning around 3:30am, Christine started having contractions. She kindly let me sleep until almost 7, and then woke me up to have me start cancelling my scheduled day. I was supposed to be in Burlington for a whole day of meetings – looks […]
read moreReady for the Road Trip
- Feb
- 24
It seems like Christine and I have a thing for road trips – we’ll be back in Canada until the end of May, and while there, we’re going to be doing a LOT of driving. Christine flew back with Paul a couple of weeks ago to make sure she was safely back before the airlines say […]
read moreMissions and the Art of Carburator Maintenance
- Dec
- 20
There’s a dark side to the saying, “neccesity is the mother of invention.” Here in Tanzania, and elsewhere in Africa as well, you can get anything repaired… but most often, not quite right.
read moreThe sick kid wave
- Dec
- 06
One of my friends recently retweeted a good line. The tweet said, “Non-parents, you have no idea. Period.” I laughed. Tonight, though, when the princess is lying in bed writhing and getting ready for what very well may turn out to be an eventual puke session, I’m reminded of that line. You see, we expected […]
read moreMoving Update
- May
- 20
Well, we’re moved. As of yesterday evening, all of our stuff is out of the Corner house and into the Blue Tile house. I won’t say it’s very well organized, very neat, and it’s hard to say how much unpacking we’ll get done before we leave for Canada in a month, but at least we’re […]
read moreMoving in, and a Summary of What We’re Doing
- May
- 13
When we arrived in Tanzania in November of 2007, we “temporarily” moved into the corner house. It was supposed to be a short term solution while we renovated the blue tile house. Well, it’s now May 2009 and we’re renovating the blue tile house. Jeff & Jan arrive from Kitchener on the 19th (yup, that’s […]
read moreFeels Like Summer
- May
- 08
We’ve had so many rainy days recently, much to the delight of the farmers (which in Tanzania means everyone), that today’s blue skies and gentle breeze has brought out the same feelings that those first lovely days of summer always do. It’s an invigorating feeling – you can’t shut the door, you don’t want to […]
read moreWorking Hard… or Hardly Working?
- May
- 07
6 websites, 3 cars, 2 laptops, our financial books, and a partridge in a pear tree. Things have been falling apart all around us, but we’re still standing. At one point last week Davin was working on all three of our Pamoja vehicles at the same time. The oil pressure on the Nissan Safari had […]
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