Bhajaj vs Tuk-Tuk

Driving in Dar es Salaam and Mombasa gives you a priceless comparison of how people come to ingenuous solutions to tackle traffic issues and get from one point to the other in city traffic jams. From city buses, daladalas (minibuses), lorries, pickups, taxis to rickshaws and other clever means of transportation. Sky is the limit to human creativity.

Divine Mercy In The Heart Of Mombasa

Last time, in April, when I was on my way back home from Bura, my hosts showed me around Mombasa. It came to me as a very nice surprise and heart warming discovery to find out that Divine Mercy is very much in the heart of the People of God of Mombasa.

Deja Vu

Same place. Mombasa. Same room in Generalate house. Same person. Me. Different condition though. Remember my post about mosquitoes when I was here last time ten days ago? Came back this afternoon from Bura Motherhouse sick, sick, sick...that malaria never went away. Three doses of duo-cotexin in the span of a month time didn't help. It struck again with vengeance. I'm sure that night I described in that post contributed to my present condition. Truly,  I don't wish anyone, not even my worst enemies, to go through this...Everything you can imagine with strong malaria, it's happening to me. And tomorrow I'm flying back to Dar and then to Mwanza and to Kiabakari. I hope I won't fall apart...

Little Switzerland

So, after three hours of earnest driving, we (three sisters, driver and me) have arrived to Bura Motherhouse of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph. It feels good to be back here. I love this place, located on a plateau surrounded from three sides by beautiful hills (I would rather call them mountains) and the opening in this crescent-shaped hills allowing for the twisted dirt road to wind its way around the slopes of Taita Hills. This area looks to me like a Little Switzerland, so beautiful and serene, so new every morning and every evening...

Fort Jesus

Still in Mombasa, leaving for Bura in Taita Mountains in a couple of hours. Doing photocopies of seminar materials, for group and individual works and for the retreat which will follow immediately the seminar. Just got the full list of names of participants, some 60 sisters expected to take part. This will be even larger group than the previous one. Which makes me only happier, as it is always pleasant to have strong audience to share with what is dear and important to my heart and faith.

Mombasa

The short hop to Mombasa from Dar es Salaam via Zanzibar (15 minutes to Zanzibar, then 50 minutes further to Mombasa) was uneventful, thank God! Though the weather made for some bumpy ride over Zanzibar Channel and on our final to Moi International Airport in Mombasa.

Layout

Just playing with the new design templates and layout for this blog... Figured out that more compact text body would be more friendly to read posts. I am not satisfied yet with the result, so please feel free to drop some comments how would you see this blog should look like. After all, it is for you!

Enjoying two days of transition from Kiabakari to retreat place, in Dar es Salaam at the moment. Weariness and stresses getting out of me through every inch of my body...Thank God for this short period, as I won't enter the seminar and retreat with all this nasty burden weighing on me...

The weather in Dar is quite clement, heat is somehow subdued, it is June after all, late autumn in our East African terms... Temps ranging from 20 to 30+  C degrees, bearable, very nice...

Tomorrow leaving for Mombasa by Precision Air short hop from Dar es Salaam. On Monday work starts. I will pray for you, please, pray for me too and for sisters...

Have a blessed Sunday, my dear friends!