A data update...

March 24, 2019

A data update…

Here it is almost our last day in Arusha and I’ve been unable to post anything all week. I bought wifi data until the end of the month but it didn’t kick in when it was supposed to so I can’t post anything but a few words. I could have gone downtown to work out the problem, but that’s about a ½ day trip and I haven’t had time. So, I have written other posts but will have to post them when I get home to my own wifi. That will be the middle of the week.

You might wonder how I can post this and not post a real post. Well, Kundayo has a wimpy wifi—about like a dial up so I can post this—given enough time for it to load BUT pictures are impossible.

Since I have your attention, however, I’ll give you an update on Ngaisi, the young Maasai woman on the verge of delivering her child. There is no update. Janet called the hospital where we knew she’d be going but they couldn’t tell us anything because of “privacy” rules. The Africans here can’t believe it. Makes no sense to them. Although the hospital personnel can’t officially tell us anything, they will probably try to get word to us by means other than telling us.  That’s the way it works here.  Anyway, I personally suspect that Ngaisi couldn’t manage getting herself on the back of a piki piki and taking the motorcycle ride for 9 km to the highway to catch a van for a 2 hour ride to Arusha—all this in labor.

Today, Janet and I gave our baby kit to Sharon (a friend at church) who knows the director of the hospital where Ngaisi is supposed to go.  If she does, in fact, have the baby in the boma, she will probably eventually make it to the hospital for a check up and she’ll get all of her baby stuff then—hopefully. We know that her sister, Elizabeth, will make sure that she gets to Arusha once she returns from the outlying areas.

So that’s the story so far.  No pics. Too bad. But stay tuned. I have more to say once I return to Internet Land.