Serengeti Day Trip

Just a few photos from Serengeti day trip we did last week. Dusty and dry as bone, all creation screams to God for mercy - rain... We too in Kiabakari. Three months without a drop of rain... The link to pictures is here.

Unfair

Yes, we felt so disappointed last evening when we came back from the Holy Mass in Nyamongo district in Kiabakari, where there was a heavy downpour just before the Mass, messing whole setup altogether and soaking it wet completely - and here in the Kiabakari center, and Divine Mercy Hill area there was not a single drop of water. Just dust everywhere. This was unfair!

In The Mood

The second day of winter in East Africa. Another bleak, gloomy, overcast day. I'm still hoping for some rain as we run dangerously low in water supply in our tanks. As I look at these heavy, lead colored clouds and fog covering Kukirango valley, this song sprung up in my mind, so I'd like to share it with you as the wintery mood encompasses us here more and more...

Winter Has Arrived

The winter season in Tanzania, at least in our part of Tanzania, has officially arrived. We woke up to a gloomy, foggy day, with temps that dropped down dramatically since yesterday. A very slight drizzle for a while, which sometimes happen in winter in Mara Region, no wind, thick air insulating sounds of the neighborhood, making for a weird feeling of being inside a cotton layer...

Vuli

Looks like Vuli is finally knocking on the door...Vuli is the Swahili name for a small rainy season, the equivalent of European spring time. Clouds have been building up for several days, murky weather, humidity, hard to breathe air, barometric pressure changing constantly...First shy drizzles, be it at night or during the day, for a few minutes, and us running around with plastic buckets and containers, trying to catch every drop possible from roofs, gutters, anywhere...

The Last Day

August 31st - the last day of summer holidays in Europe, tomorrow 71st anniversary of the break out of Second World War, with Germany invading Poland on September 1st, 1939 - as the benchmark starting point (well, we may count other benchmark points as Anschluss (annexation) of Austria on March 12th, 1938 etc.)... In Poland tomorrow thousands of pupils will start a new school year (I remember my anxiety mixed with joy I felt whenever September 1st was approaching, as I always liked going to school)...