Moven Pick Hotel, Dar es Salaam

This hotel is probably the nicest hotel in Dar es Salaam. It is where President George W. Bush stayed on his visit to Tanzania. We went inside this hotel to a business where we could confirm our airline reservations for the next day.

Larger Shopping Area

In Dar es Salaam there is a very large indoor market area beside the water. The first
photos show boats next to the market.

Below is the pavillion. On the weekends there are many more vendors in this pavillion. Unfortunately we were not there on a weekend.

In one of the shops men were making pictures which they would personalize. This man is painting one for Bella. He signed his own name on the back.

These shops had traditional jewelry, carvings, clothes, shoes, purses, and many more items.

There was a very nice building with many more shops. We did not get any photos of the building, but Muriel took the following one of the man shining shoes. You can tell by the wall, chair, and floor that the building was very nice. We bought only a few things, but my favorite were the two wooden bowls in the last photo.

Shopping in Dar es Salaam

This is one of the shopping areas in Dar. It is made up of many small shops arranged around a square. The shop owners come to the doorways inviting, sometimes almost demanding, visitors to come inside to look and buy.



In the following photo, on the left, you will see two men from the Masaai tribe. One man is dressed in black and the other in blue.




The man below is selling coconuts.



Chris, Cyndi, and Muriel are in the following picture. Chris gets the job of carrying purchases wrapped in newspaper.

Next are Tam and Muriel.

Sea Cliff Hotel----Dar es Salaam

At the end of the project, when we left Chimala, we had to drive the 11 hours back to Dar es Salaam because that is the closest airport to Chimala. Even though it was a long drive, we enjoyed the scenery. We did not see as many animals as we passed through the wild life preserve, though, because there were intentionally set fires along the highway. The fires must have been set to burn back some of the elephant grass that grows so tall. The fires kept the animals further from the road than they were on our trip to Chimala a few weeks earlier.

In Dar, Bill and Cyndi took us to the Sea Cliff Hotel to shop in the gift shop. It was a really nice place with lots of quality items. There was very pretty jewelry, some of which had tanzanite stone, a blue stone that is only found in Tanzania. It was quite expensive, so we did not buy any. We did enjoy looking, though!





You can tell where the Sea Cliff Hotel got its name!

Ron

Muriel and Debbie E.


This is where the men waited while the women looked at jewelry! Ron is on the left, then Bill, and then Chris.

Jan

The grounds are beautiful! Does this look like winter?

"Bee" Party

Our last party in Chimala was a great "Bee Party" planned by Muriel and Debbie E. It was fun and well-attended.
The first photo shows a wall decoration. On each of the "bees" is the name of one of our readers. It is very empressive to see so many names on the wall and to realize that each of them had spent many hours in English practice/Bible study! Some of them read for one hour per day five days per week for six weeks!



Muriel had made each of us Americans a "bee" bandana. She also made a few to give away for prizes, and everyone wanted one!

For the icebreaker, a picture of an animal was pinned on each guest's back. Each person then had to go around to other people and ask "yes or no" questions in order to guess what animal was on thisback. There were a lot of cheaters!

The medical students from Ireland are in some of the photos. They were very helpful during the games, and they added lots of enthusiasm.

There were several games, including one in which people threw beanbag "bees" into the "beehive" baskets.

Another game involved giving each team a group of letters and then calling out a word for the team to "build". The words came from our Luke study.

Following is Tam's team.

The next photo is of Atupele's little girl. Atupele is a teacher in the primary school and was a great help to us.

Next is Winfrida's daughter and Nazareth and Winfrida. Nazereth is the secretary for the Bible College and the School of Preaching. Winfrida works at the hospital. Both were readers.

Refreshments were passed out to everyone.

Everyone had a great time. There was fun, laughter, and visiting ----and getting to know one another better. Our readers really enjoy parties!! I do have to say that we were glad that this was the last one, as the parties are a lot of work!

(There are two other new posts published today before this one.)

The Gospel Chariot

Since 1994 big trucks called "Gospel Chariots" have been used to preach the gospel in 11 different African countries, including Tanzania. The preachers work closely with World Bible School in contacting students who have expressed a desire for further study or to be baptized. In 2009 about 1000 people were baptized through the work of the Gospel Chariot. While we were in Chimala, the Gospel Chariot truck came to that area for several months.






This side of the truck opens to make a speakers' platform. Inside, there are 100 plastic chairs to set around the platform for visitors. A VERY loud speaker system sits on the roof when the music or speaking begins. Custom is that the speaker system should be "overdriven" to cause garbled and very loud noise to attract people. It certainly had the opposite affect on us!











The children in this village were eager to help distribute the chairs. The village had a Church of Christ at one time; then the preacher had to move, and the church in that village died. The sermon was by Bill Stinson, and another man from the Gospel Chariot organization spoke and answered questions for about 3 hours.








The children did not always listen to the message!