Tanzania Feb/March 2019: Day 16 and Day 17

Today has been a quiet day for us. We had breakfast sat at our favourite table on the terrace with views of Kilimanjaro. We stayed there even when Kili disappeared behind clouds (which usually happens around 9am) and spent some time just reading and chatting to the staff.

Today I took a couple of photos of the inside of our room. It is very comfortable and really good value for money.

We walked down to Keys Hotel for lunch and a swim. To make a change from Tanzanian food we opted for pizza today and it was really very nice.

We then walked back to More Than A Drop in time for a G&T followed dinner. All in all a nice relaxing day.

Day 17

This was our last “working” day. We walked down to ACTT fairly early so it wasn’t too hot. We did some paperwork with Robert to finalise all the purchases we had made. We found that we had enough money left to buy one more laptop computer which we will loan to Kayenze Ndogo school in Mwanza, the new school we visited where Clement is now Head Teacher. At present they don’t have electricity but the electricity supply is not far away from them so hopefully it will reach them in the next few months. In the meantime Clement can charge the laptop at home and bring it to school each day.

After this we visited Jamhuri School again to collect some letters they had written to pupils at Meadowbrook School in Bristol. We visited some classrooms and the computer lab and met the Vice Chair of the school board. It was a nice visit and the standard of letters and drawings is amazing.

We then passed by the Kilimanjaro Coffee Union and bought some coffee beans. We met up with Evodi again and so stopped for a coffee.

We then returned to ACTT to have lunch at Mama Irene’s.

This afternoon Robert had invited us to visit a Secondary School near Marangu where the Head Teacher was being invested into the local Rotary Club of which Robert is a member. It was a nice drive up to Marangu through the farms and banana plantations and it was certainly cooler up there.

When we arrived some other Rotary members were already there and the school brass band was playing in the school hall where all the school pupils were assembled.

After a while the Rotary event began and the Head Master was invested into the Rotary Club.

This took about 45 minutes. For some pupils I think this was far too long at the end of a school day!!

The Rotary Club then provided refreshments and Peter and I then went for a stroll around the school grounds while the Rotary members concluded their business.