Season's Greetings

'ts going to be Eid el Hajj, I hear there are usually lots of slaughtering here: goats and sheep are favourites, closely followed by X-Mas and after a week for those who'll be lucky New Year 2009. Nimekwenda kijijini, tunavyoondoka mujini kwenda huko tunataniwa kuwa tunaenda kwa sensa aka kuhesabiwa, wengine wanasema roll call na mengineyo. Labda kubwa ni kuwa Yesu atazaliwa Moshi kama kawaida na atashuka toka mlima Kili. Kama hutaki wala sikulazimishi. Usiku wa kuamkia leo ni balaa, bojo aka mvua ya maana imemwagika Shimbwe, Kishumundu na wapi huko sijui hakuendeki.
Mbarikiwe!!!

The School mag

I think I liked this....

TEACHER AND MY NEW FACE
Teacher’s my guardian, my way and my root of education. When you thresh your seed of origin ‘CHEMISTRY’ on me I play. Whatever you plant on me is for my grantage but for me this is the way it’s happen to me like this I do this and this are my results. Some of your word fell along the jokes, my foolishness trodden them and cover them with my wrapped carpet. Evil and bless my mind. I failed and make another trial the day, month a year passes like a ‘windstorm you’ advice me but this are my respond. In half of your advice of a fruitfully tree grew up with no root’s, when they started to grew because of my careless it dry up. in the days I tried, thorn grew with it and choked it.
Before you cleared your hands I get a shadow I reflect and this is my image. When you’re talking to me with my negligence they dry up. When i change I receive your seeds with joy but unluckily in tests they go away.
When I receive them fast stand by my own and my fruits are valueless. This is what happening to most of my fellow students and i. when you teach on the chalkboard at your back we make jokes. When you have test I sit at the back whispered you where serious I laugh twice .in my holiday chit my parents to go to tuition but not. When I have a speech or debate I act as I have no voice, troublesome and so on. Now I get and understand what you have said. But I’m too late. What about your future? Now I have to finish up form four brother’s and sister’s cry when I remember one day you said.”I will suffer with my companies why!”I come my self-wont turn my self’ it’s my fault, it’s my fault! How about you? By TWINS Doryn Doryc

Sis grad contd

I had to give a speech on beahalf of dad. think I liked it I was like wow!
There was a cake too. Om the left is Vicky she's at IFM in Dar taking Banking I think so.

2007: Started it inebriated, and 4 shots in the air... 2008:...?

first episode

I still remember it very well. ‘Twas around saa 5:49 usiku, when my mom woke me up from an alcohol-influenced slumber in the sitting on the sofa. At the time I had around 5 Serengetis and 3 Safaris plus a “kibinti”- an alias for the medium sized Konyagi. Woke up, wearily took dad´s double-barrelled hunting shotgun, four stout bullets and went out to shoot the sky! That´s how I received New Year 2007
Well, that year wasn´t bad though am not implying that it was that good! Anyway for your information during those festivities I broke my first spectacles: a 0.75x magnification piece of glass! In February I sat for my Nashunal Diploma in Education exams and done exceptional well; had 7 mind-numbing subjects, anything from child development to Azimio la Arusha to better ways of using the blackboard. Out of those I scored 2 As and rest Bs. Not too bad, aagh that was at Mwenge Univ College of Edu, spent less than two years struggling to be “enlightener”! A job that many Bongo Flava generation wish not to hear.

second episode

The gooda thing was I´d my first interview and job at Masama Girls´ Sec School two days before my exams. It was on Jumamosi and did my first paper on Monday. How cool? But well, not so cool, in fact I didn´t honour the appointment. Problem? I wish you´d known already, the “basket” as my Geo lecturer Mr. Magigi used to call it. Man, I´m the firstborn, having 5 other siblings, a 73-year old dad and mum. Now you expect me to land in a 154,000/= a month remuneration before tax, NSSF, leaders tea, CWT etc. etc. deductions? Hell no I couldn´t allow! Yeah I´d have free housing, lunch and whatnot but that wouldn´t be enough.
So I did my exams, one day after exams I presented myself to yet another interview at Edmund Rice Sinon Sec School in Arusha, Engo area some 6km away from town centre. It was Saturday when I met this Aussie, Br. Frank O´Shea, a Christian Brothers missionary with some 12 years in Tanzania, the headmaster. We talked and fortunately I´d gone through the net and got most of what I needed to know about the place. Attention for all job seekers, employers are usually happy when you show that you know one or two things about their company, org or school as in my case, do a research. Back to the endeavour, I got the job as easily. Well they needed me and I was from a prestigious college, they wanted to get the best of me and Mwenge! Here no housing, but fatter purse, aan 180000 bob was waiting. No deduction at this point as it is probationary period. In March I started job.
Aagh this year all are good things, there was this comrade of mine from the college, Chumwaki , he also had a job at the place. He started earlier than I did, so he was my man for that, I arrived, stayed with sis at Tangi la Maji for two days before we rent ours. The landlady is in the school board so it was easy. The house was big, with water and TANESCO power. We took double rooms at 20000 bob a month, power and water tariffs exclusive. That was going to be my home for some 4 months. There I bought my first piece of furniture, a 5ftx6ft, high polished mahogany bed at 150000/=. May be I was content may be not. I don´t really remember!
The job wasn´t very rewarding, you know shouting for some 80min to find out that only a fraction of the class really understood you, truant chaps, noise makers, disturbing moments and all that just remember I was a first timer so it wasn´t easy. But did it, taught Civics form 3, Geo form 3D (I dont mean three dimensions!) and English form 4B. The problem started when the probationary period ended and I was to sign a “long-lasting” contract. I was confident and hoped for a better deal, but that wasn´t the case. My contract document clearly stated that a new contract will be signed after a successful completion of the probationary period and after the parties have negotiated the salary and reaching a common ground. To my bolt from the blue when I got into this office I found that someone else has negotiated my salary for me, didn´t like it therefore didn´t sign it but stayed. Underground during all these moments I´d contact with a certain headmistress in Karatu so I was generally at ease, I was mull over the deals. Regrettably for ERSSS, well auspiciously for me I opt for Karatu. I wrote and marked end of the term exams, fill in the result sheets and parents report forms, clean heartedly. Took my double salaries for May and June, left for a Teaching In Action (TIA) seminar (workshop?) at MWUCE. I came back, reported to my boss, it was Jumatano, and on Friday I left for Mang’ola Chini, Anna Gamazo Sec School. The nastiest thing i did was that I didn´t say goodbye to no one than buddies Chumwaki, Juma and Emil, not even dad nor mom even my girlfriend at the time. The deal was better here, I´m sorry I haven´t reached the best deal as yet, free housing, water, generator power and a good pay I´d declare.

third episode

That Friday I arrived was 06th of July signed my 6-months contact on 07th and started job on Monday 09th so now I´m here hoping to spend some more months before I go on with my search for best deal. Until then I´ll continue my chronicle as from 10th July to the end of the year.