Today was a somewhat simple day for us. After a light breakfast we made our way down to KBC for graduation ceremonies. The graduations were for diploma and certificate students. Certificate grad’s did their courses in Swahili. Diploma students did theirs in English and are eligible to go for a bachelors degree (at a different institution or University). The ceremony started with a communion services. Canon Helen Sammons did the preaching. There we other various speaches as well. Since this is the last week for Helen and Alister to be in Tanzania, there were gift exchanges as well. It ended with lunch in the dining hall. I’m glad we could make this event. Cathy and I turned out the be the choir for the service. So we pulled out some favorites of ours that we could sing with the students.
In the afternoon, I spent some time back in the computer room area working on what will be our final setup for the Internet connection. As things turned out, we were unable to get the MiFi devices I had hope would be coming from Dar Es Salaam earlier in the week. But Helen and Alister, being so gracious and charitable agreed to sell their MiFi device to KBC. All I needed to do was to borrow the device for the afternoon and do a switch over test and document it so that someone for KBC can install the device when I am gone. I reviewed the procedure with Reginald who will perform the install. I’m reasonable sure he can manage it as I will also have remote view of the Server just prior and after the switch over from the current Vodacom modem connection. We’ll have to see how that goes as Vodacom dropped the ball this week by having a network problem, which started sometime on Tuesday and has not yet been fixed. The Internet connection has been up and down since, so it’s hard to work on the system with that happening. Please pray that they can get their network working correctly soon!
It’s late now so I think I’ll stop here. I’ll just say that The Lord has been showing me much about commitment and sacrifice during this year’s trip. I’m looking forward to discussing many things with Fr. Joe and the St. Paul’s Mission Committee when we return. Until then,
Bwana Yesu Asifiwe.
Bill