Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
It’s a well known adage that parenthood is an opportunity for everyone else in your life (or randoms who see you at the supermarket) to let loose about how you should be parenting. Even if it’s commentary rather than condemnation, there’s a fair bit of opinion. It’s not hard to […]
6 months into our time in Tanzania, we’re starting to accumulate a list of heartaches that result from living in a different country. There have been happy occasions we’ve missed out on: Engagements (weddings still to come) Long-awaited pregnancies and births There have been sad moments when we’ve wanted to […]
Our conversation partners are into exams and holidays but that hasn’t stopped us chatting with students! This week I met J, a third year nursing student. Though he’s a free Pentecostal, he thinks that the most important thing is to be a Christian first. There were two hallmarks of Christianity […]
I googled ‘God is a Negro’ after seeing it mentioned in an article in The Global Dictionary of Theology. It’s written by a free African American, Henry McNeal Turner, who was a church planter, pioneer of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a chaplain in the American Civil War, and later […]
During our language classes, our tutor acted as cultural interpreter as well. One piece of advice he gave us was to think about what Australians do and then assume the opposite. Here are some ‘opposites’ we’ve been told about or discovered: if you want to protest your innocence, indignance or […]
1. A spare tyre on the back of the car can save the day. We got rear-ended by a van while stuck in traffic, however there was no harm to our car (or us) because the impact was cushioned by the spare tyre. 2. Maps are no one’s friend. The […]
With the start of Ramadan imminent, we chatted with our Muslim conversation partners about religion. We learnt that Ramadan in Swahili is actually ‘Ramadhani’. The ‘dh’ sound is more like ‘th’ and the ‘i’ on the end is an ‘ee’ sound. It sounds like ‘Ramathanee’. We were interested to hear […]
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