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.

Sis grad

Sis Grad @ Ondoa Ujinga Tz (OUT)

'Twas held in Dar @ the Old National Stadium on 27th day of October, sis Glory graduated with adiploma in a programme called CYP (Commonwealth Youth Programme) She was one of only seven Tanzanians out of a bunch of Kenyans and Ugandans.

Barabara

1. At last barabara ya kuelekea Mang'ola mpaka hukoMatala Singida imeanza kutengenezwa. Sio kwa kiwango cha lami bali kukwanguliwa tu na kuongezwa tabaka la gravel. Hatua hii mbaya sana lakini watu wa malori hajafurahi biashara ndoh ivo tena itavamiwa na watu wenye hata pickup kubeba kitunguu cha Mang'ola,Malekchanda nk.
2. Fomu kwa ajili ya kujiunga na Pre-form one zinatolewa. Bei shs 3000, sharti awe msichana (mwaka huu hatutaki boys for good!) aliyemaliza std 7 mwaka huu au uliopita. Entrance exam tar 10 Nov. KARIBU

The Mag afterall finished n out!

Well the life at Mang'ola esp AnnaGamazo wasn't that bad afterall. I was appointed to ensure that the school mag is well typed, edited and printed to the quality. It cost my pocket but with some sweet fruits and am proud!The pics are for the front and back pages. The whole thing had 32 pages, some 20 pics, 2 cartoons, about 40 articles, stories, features and others.

Teaching in Action

Kuna semina nimesema tulihudhuria way last three months. Well the org which organised, and financed it called AfricAid founded by a young American girl to suppor girl education. Hebu watembelee afu utajua mengi zaidi na kuhusu semina pia. Bofya hapa

Orbirtuary

One of our students, Levina Aloyce committed suicide last week. As matter of fact I didnt know her good but I can say she was a cool, ambitious and hardworking student who would have finished form four this year, but she's gone!
I wrote a poem for her

Death
's like an announcement over PA
blaring loud and clear

for everybody to hear
yet there comes fear.
But if Father's home we're all wanting
death is the only way to go?
can't we get used!

Anna Gamazo Sec

WHY SCIENCE SUBJECTS ESPECIALLY MATHEMATICS.
BY Nemayan David
Edited by Hyasinter Tarimo

As the matter of speaking, they normally say science subjects are difficult, other say they are not understandable and some are saying they need a tolerant person. Is it true? Can we accept the slogan? Why shouldn’t we do something?
Science subject especially mathematics is immense problem in our academic ‘safari’. It can be identified that, this is the problem of the whole world. According my research, I discovered that the thing which pushes back science subjects is “LAZINESS’’. Most of the students do not struggle and they do not bother to disturb their mind.
Apart from laziness, also there is lack of cooperation among students and between teachers and students. Obvious students do not want to listen to what they are told by their teachers. They are obstinate to practice their responsibility.
To have a good performance in this subject, laziness should be abolished, also having cooperation between teachers and students.
Also it needs a lot of time in doing revision of what has been taught in the classes. If Kifungilo why not Anna Gamazo? So bear in your mind that;
“NO SWEET WITHOUT SWEAT” also “NO PAIN, NO GAIN”.

Anna Gamazo Sec

I'm organising a mag for the school written solely by students this is one of the articles:
MANG´OLA WITHOUT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
By Wenseslaus John

Mang´ola RC church should be given reputation congratulation and grateful for the necessities done by this church here in mangola. This church under two priests Pepe and Michael they have brought changes in Mang´ola.
In terms of believes this church was trying to change people from their wrong believes that have been conducted by their leaders. At the beginning there were few worshipers compared to nowadays. Also RC church tried to expand its branches so as to make good word of the God known to the people.
Father Michael and Pepe did this for their coming to Mang´ola we know Mang’ola has endemic diseases like malaria due to this disease majority of people have died without any treatment but after the coming of these Fathers they got an idea of building a hospital which after building they found skilled people to work there.
At this time the hospital christened “Askofu Hando” is under the supervision of Miguel and Pepe also this hospital has developed in technology for the treatment of sick people because now the hospital has the well equipped laboratories, X ray room and operation room and enough medicine for treatment compare to the beginning.
Also on the other hand these two priest saw that there another problem that the people of Mang’ola needed education that could help them to manage their life so they built a secondary school called ANNA GAMAZO SECONDARY SCHOOL their supervision and stills this school is progressing enough while it is going to have Advanced level (A-level) students this year 2007 according to their good supervision they have enabled to bring good teachers who are teaching very well compare to the results of form two national examinations in 2004, 2005 and 2006 also the form four results in 2006 the school has tried to give the students more tests in order to do well in their examinations
Therefore these two priests should be given more respect and congratulation for what they have done in Mang’ola for their coming to Mang’ola in 1993 when Mang’ola was like unknown area that people can not live compare to now day’s Mang´ola is still developing day after day in the stimulation brought by these priests.

Nipo Mang'ola Chini

Well mimi ni mzima, naomba kutao ka taarifa kuwa kwa sasa sipo tena Edmund Rice bali nimekimbilia porini wilaya ya Karatu ka shule kanaitwa Anna Gamazo. Huko hakuna internet hivyo habari na picha zaidi labda at the end of the moon nikija town. Kuna mengi ya kueleza, picha na matukio. Hivi unajua kuwa vitunguu unavyoungia mboga viinatoka mitaa ya huko nilipo? The land is fascinating dry, stony, windy but deadly rich-soil valley where maize, onions, rice and many others grow.

Huku wamejaa WaTindiga, WaIrawq, na makabila mengine hasa yale ya Stone Age
pia WaChagga wapo wengi na ndio wamiliki wakubwa, kama kawaida yao, wa maduka na baa.

Climate ya huku very frustating, you can't tell whether its semi-desert, but it has a valley whose land produces hefty.

Shule iko financed na lady toka Spain called Anna Gamazo thru her organisation called AGH (Anna Gamazo Humanitarian Foundation?) well kitu kama hiyo.
Kama kawida nafundisha Geo na Eng, classes are smaller here and students though not very able but can!
Next taim!!

MWUCE shall live in me!

Hizi photos ni za grad. 'Twas early Feb. As I'm here for a seminar I came across them on the internet computer at the college and thought it'll be good I have them for you ndugu mdau.

This is the way (road?) to the dorms; on this one some friends in Y1 diploma, (L) Agripina and (R) Rosalia






This another 's SantaClaus and Agripina, one of the my favourite girls. 'Twas in the night, full of 'boob', we were having Serengetiz kwa kwenda front that day. See the man....

Na MissMacha yupo!

Hapa ilikuwa grad. She's in Vunjo Sec now. Malamiko tuuu ohh mitoto haielewi Maths. Halafu inafeli mitihani yangu. Basi tu tulipiga mistori! Kushoto kule ni Madame Mariaflora sasa yupo Tanga kuna kashule ka girls kule anapambana. Taarifa nilizonazo 'kachana' huyoooo!

Nimepa-miss 'home'

We are here for a seminar? workshop? titled 'Teaching in Action'. Did not come as many may be others are busy or couldn't afford staying for 5 days 'free!' Meals isn't what people need most when it comes to a semina! Salamu zao
Started yesterday morning with address from the Principal and the #1 case study was 'Large Classes' presented by Mr Nnzao. 'Twas fine though started boring. More news later I'm going for lunch

Whaaaaat!

Did Laura see this? And who's that guy down there? And godamnit, the 1 behind?

ETW

Sat 26th May 2007

The GraveSide

• Lost my phone
• It started late
• Hated being there
• Hated being there
• Bit boring; same, the taught and ‘taughter’! read Freire

What had me there!

• Programme: English Teachers’ Workshop (ETW)
• Venue: Makumira Secondary School
• Facilitator: Mr. Tamamu, Deputy Zonal Inspector of Schools, Northern Zone.
• Theme: Strategies for Presenting Language III texts.

How it went

1. Introductions; just your name and school you are from as plain as that, my name is so and so from there! (do not ask me what I expected!)
   
   Do you know what are frozen relations? So we started off the day with an Ice breaker:
   a. What dries as it gets wet?
   Towel, tissue paper
   b. How many eyes do you have?
   Two (2)! Damnit that’s obvious! even a blind would say so. Be ‘eyes’ though this is a distracter.
   c. Which river in the world has four ‘aiz’?
   People were caught and started asking which ‘ai’ but the answer was the Mississippi. Therefore the idea of Homo-phones, nyms, graphs etc.
2. Then followed a Warm up activity; facilitator was really pressing on this that teachers do apply this in class. An example; gone into a class that had Maths the preceded period, got in, start right away with your English lesson! Phew!
   So we did an activity on Anagrams: more on wordsmith
   
   Sort out the following anagrams as shown in the example below:-
   Change agree into another word for keen= eager
   Now you can do this:
   Change asleep into word used by polite people
   Change beard into something you eat
   Change below into part of the body
   Change bleat into an item of furniture
   Change cheap into fruit
   Change swap into an insect
   Change thing into time of day
   Change cruelty into word for knives, forks, etc.
   Change chain into a country
   Change flog into a popular sport
   Change flow into (a) an animal (b) a bird
   Change super into something you keep money
   Change lamp into another part of the body
   Change hated into something that comes to everybody
   Change rat into a substance used in making tarmac roads
   More on anagrams on the net including this one from manythings.org, I liked this site, this one creates anagram after you've put a word. To be honest being a student is one of the most few sweet things in the world that I enjoy
3. Now to the THEME
   

   HANDLING LANGUAGE III TEXTS

   
   Some questions rose as ‘why should it be called lang. III?’ etc. (any guess?)
   Some flashback followed thing like
   The theory of Literature
   The definition:- artistic use of lang. to reflect social realities.
   More on Internet Public Lib and on Wiki

Consider:
Marriage has lot of problems (plain lang.)
A husband is a band to bind your life
A wife is a knife to cut your life

So we agreed that literature is

• Imaginative
• Artistic
• Uses lang. as medium
• Expresses social experiences, realities, problems etc. political, cultural, economic etc.

Then followed lengthy discussion on figures of speech; similes, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, satire, and well you know ‘em. <more on fig. o speech; activity, wiki
We went through topics as Literature and Society and saw that lit. develops from the society as it draws political etc. experiences from that society. Consider Hugh Langston’s
‘The Ballad of the Landlord’ or Claude Makaay’s ‘If we must Die’.
Followed by Literature and Culture and concluded that lit. is an expression of culture. Consider ‘Three Suitors one Husband’ and Ngugi wa Thiongo’s ‘The River Between’.

We then did Types of Lit.(oral written), their differences, Forms/Genres of Lit. ( non-fiction fiction drama poetry), form and content, and wind up with Functions of lit. (didactic aesthetic)

The day was steamy and hot, we took a break.

The following session was mainly on teaching strategies and methods; specifically how to get pupils interested, motivated etc.
The facilitator introduced two excellent methods on ‘Characters and characterization’ namely; Name dropping and Cross Word puzzle.

An example of Name dropping taken from 'Things Fall Apart'
I innocent
K knowledgeable
E energetic
M martyr
E entertaining
F friendly
U unexpectedly meets death
N naive
A adaptable

After general introduction and quick explanation of the two method we got into work; trying to create the two activities using different texts. Before we left we had to display what we did in the groups, I enjoyed group work dearly.

Bwawa la maini!!

Kwanza hongereni kwa kipindi cha kwanza cha soka la kuvutia na poleni kwa kipigo. Lakini dont mind even the coach himself appreciated the good job done by the The Rossoneri labda huniamini hebu soma hapa mwenyewe.

Mwl. Chum wah key upo?

Kweli kazi ipo!

Halafu mlete ubishi, eti ualimu Kazi?

Mi sijui sana lakini hilo jibu lina look korektle muno hadi nakuwa konvinsd!