Heri ya Mwaka Mpya! (Happy New Year!)
Yes, we have reached 2012, friends. I started my second year of teaching at Majengo Secondary School this past Monday. I have a lot of the same students as last year since I am now teaching Form II English and most of my Form I students passed into Form II. I feel excited about this year, and I believe it will be even better than last year as I try to go deeper into this experience.
In addition to my early December trip to Zanzibar, I also traveled to Tanga with my fellow Jesuit Volunteers for our retreat on the Indian Ocean at the same beautiful retreat center as last year. Then, we went to Dar-es-Salaam to celebrate Christmas before returning to Moshi for New Year’s and the jubilee celebration of Brother Lyimo, Majengo’s headmaster, and two other brothers who had all been brothers for 25 years. All the Jesuit Volunteers, posted to Dodoma and Dar but not here in Moshi, are great, and the larger JVC Tanzania community will be wonderful this year, just as it was last year.
I’m sorry I keep failing to write longer and more detailed posts (or to post pictures), but I will get my game on again this semester . . . probably.
God bless,
Andy
