by Tammy | Jun 3, 2011 | Ministry, Nice View Academy
Spent Thursday at the Academy working on many different projects and thankfully none necessitated the use of electricity since it was out most of the day. But first here’s a picture of a few students on break: Now, a few of the projects included: Pen pal...
by Tammy | May 21, 2011 | Ministry
Since living here for just over a year we have definitely seen the “truth” in what the government claims as “free education”. Recently the Daily Nation (Kenyan newspaper) reported that “The government allocates Sh1,020 per child per year...
by Tammy | May 7, 2011 | Daily Life, Ministry
One year ago today I was on my way to my new home in Tala from the Nairobi airport. To be honest, it’s been a very long year for me. A year of many ups, downs, frustrations, misunderstandings, lessons, celebrations, clarifications and just basic life issues....
by Tammy | May 5, 2011 | Ministry, New Property, Uncategorized
It’s been an interesting couple of days. I guess that isn’t really saying much since most days are pretty interesting here in Kenya! But the past few days have been a bit crazy – Tuesday we were at the property getting the gate installed (click...
by Tammy | May 2, 2011 | Ministry, New Property
As I was going through my photos this evening I picked a few to put in this blog post about what we did yesterday (Sunday). After looking at them I began thinking “we didn’t do that yesterday we did that today” at that point I knew it had been a...
by Tammy | Apr 30, 2011 | Ministry
Spent the day today talking with several secondary students before they head back to school next week. Those who did well were congratulated, those who did so-so were encouraged to do better and those who did poorly were warned…2 terms in a row with D+ or below...