The New Life Band is building a secondary school, about 10 kms east of Arusha. We were picked up by James-the-Elder from the New Life Band on Friday morning and we headed out to see the school site. Once again we rode in his Toyota van, although there were only 10 of us for this trip.
The school building is still under construction, but enough is in place to hold classes. They have 31 students in their Form 1 class, who were on break this week. Next Tuesday they begin the second half of the year. The school has two classrooms and an Adminstrrative office complete, and they are working on a lab. The Lab section will be two stories, with Chemistry & Physics downstairs and a Biology lab upstairs. The walls are up for the first floor, and the ceiling/floor is nearly ready to be poured. They are planning (and hoping and praying) to keep adding classrooms and grade levels one at a time for the next five years, so the current Form 1 students can stay there all the way thru Form 6. We met several Augustana College recent grads who were working on the construction. One of the students is here for a few months, teaching english at the school.
After a nice discussion with the headmaster (Mr. Sangeti) and a tour of the grounds we loaded up and headed back into town. We had a late lunch at the Everest Chinese Restaurant – an unexpected cuisine in East Africa. It was great, and finished off with something called Apple Fritters – think breaded deep fried apples with caramel sauce. They taste even better than they sound, trust me.
We had a little bit of "down time" before it was time for dinner, which I'll cover in the next post.
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