Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Hi...greetings from Dar es Salaam! Before coming here we spent the morning visiting two schools and a village in Zanzibar. What an eye opening experience!!!!! The students ranged in age from kindergarten through high school. There were approximately 50-60 students per class!!!! We were able to ask them questions...and with the older students they asked me questions. There were a couple of really challenging questions...like...it has been said that politics ally the U.S. is having a negative impact on growth and progress in Tanzania...can you explain why you think this is the case? I took lots of video and pics...I wish I could attach them...but it doesn't seem to work. I was able to get students to gove their names be ause they are interested in forming pen pal relationships with students in America! So...if you're interested...let me know!!!! It is Assad to see that they are so short on supplies...they have very few books...no lab equipment to teach science...and no computers at all. The head teacher mentioned that although the government promised flip undoing and supplies...it never seems to get there. I'm thinking maybe the Human Rights Club...or A.P. World...can help!!!! I still believe that education is e best oath to progress and prosperity! After our short and might I add bumpy flight to Dar es Salaam...we arrived in the big city! It is extremely modern...yet overcrowded and busy! It is. Wry difficult just to cross the street! Tomorrow we visit Bagamoyo...site of the former slave trade. I'll let you know what I learn! Thueprsday night we are on our way home.... Take care!!!!!

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