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Tamie Davis
Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
The problem with making custard ice cream is that you’re left over with egg whites. I guess you could use them for pavlova, but that requires more cream than we generally get from our cow’s milk, especially after I’ve used a cup of it for the chocolate ice cream! Add […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
I think Elliot has passed some sort of Tanzanian developmental milestone. Where before I had to ensure that he was wearing socks, and field questions about whether he was cold, now that he’s walking the discussion is about whether he’s talking yet. This is also possibly because he’s twice the […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Last week I wrote on Facebook: As one commenter put it, that’s a lot of ‘likes’ for a non-life event! It’s lovely that people were so supportive – language learning is a hard slog and the triumphs are few and far between. And we Aussies love a bargain! But behind […]
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Ice cream is available in Dodoma, though flavours fluctuate, but block (or any!) chocolate is difficult to come by. If you do find it, it’s often pretty old and white. Cocoa is available though (it being a cash crop grown in Tanzania) so one day in a fit of chocolate […]
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OK, here goes, little insight into why you shouldn’t put missionaries on a pedestal. I said to Arthur the other day, this is what our life should be like:
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
In The Woodlands, we’re introduced to Rosa who lives in a world dominated by ‘The Superiors’ who apparently rule her world in an effort to ‘correct our faults’ after Rosa’s people lost a war. The Superiors are obsessed with race and have implemented some sort of program of cross-breeding to […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
I commented here that I don’t think Aussie missionaries should try to make Aussies dance like Tanzanians, but there’s something appealing about the verve of African worship, isn’t there? You may well see something in the below video from our church that you want for your church.
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes