Anya was off for a football (soccer) field day. There was no school, just several games over the class time. Anya played for her class, but she didn’t feel she played her best. I comforted her saying that it is hard to play your best when you haven’t built a sense of team, that you know how to bring out the best in each player that you play with. She said they play a bit differently, so she just tried to get open and pass well if passed to. Fortunately, it didn’t rain the whole day.
My almost 80-year-old neighbor is amazing. He is so agile on the scaffolding and capable with the construction and painting. This Norwegian stock is “go get ’em” with a “can do” spirit.
I’m plodding along on the dissertation and some preparations for a seminar for the Maasai Research Group next week. Knut is flying in two Maasai theologians for the event. Dr. Parsalaw is the Vice Chancellor of Makumira Seminary at Tumaini University Makumira. Then Rev. Lemburris Justo is a pastor at the Arusha church and the director of the evangelist training program in Oldoinyo Sambu. Justo and his wife, Janet (who won’t be coming), are good friends I’ve known since the early 90s, so I’m looking forward to seeing Justo. Justo is also very thoughtful and articulate, so I’m sure I’ll continue to learn from him.
So some of my day was preparing for the presentation I will give and the handouts. I’ll provide the table of contents of my dissertation, the first chapter, and the bibliography. I figured out how to have the Nota Bene software generate the table of contents and even an index. These come in handy as then I don’t have to manually do this, but I will go through and sort the index for key concepts instead of every word (since there are to be 100,000 words by the end).
I saw in the newspaper today that they expect 143 cruise ships in Stavanger this summer! Wow!
My understanding that the cruise ships don’t generate too much tourist revenue as their meals are all provided on the ship, so it is just those who are interested in spending money on gifts and souvenirs.
I discovered that the port posts the schedule!
http://www.stavanger-havn.no/cruise-traffic
Here’s a picture from last Friday when a ship was in the harbor when we got back from our Pulpit Rock hike. The white awnings have Norwegian sweaters, carvings, and swag
My highest readership thus far came yesterday with 85 visitors, but most were not linked to an IP address with a location. I’m guessing that my friend Kathi is logging in multiple times to boost my ego thinking I have numerous readers! (I only can see which towns visitors are coming from but not who, but I know that Duluth is my parents checking up on me. Hi Mom and Dad!)
With blessings,
Beth
I read your blog faithfully every day! Only once. I really enjoy this glimpse into your adventurous lives! So exotic. And soggy. It’s heating up here as summer comes closer. Muggy and hot. The summer camp I’m writing is creeping up faster than I’d like. We filled to capacity in four days of registration and now have a waiting list for a possible 2nd week. My team is moaning about that possibility but I don’t want to disappoint any of our kids. 🙁 We need 20 kids on that list and only have 9 so far.
Anyways, I wish we could come visit you there! Our trip to Italy in Aug has me dreaming of clean air and pasta! It will be hot but oh so different. And you’ll be where? Africa? WA? Not sure.
Thanks for being so faithful for putting up pictures and snippets. You put my blogging to shame.
Love you!
Kathi