An Auspicious Day for PHA--The Beginning

The Prime Minister of Tanzania, Edward Lowassa, visited Arusha yesterday to tour two of the projects the Lutheran Church is involved with. Peace House Academy was one of those projects! The weather, however, was not cooperative. It had been raining almost steadily for the past 36 hours--wet, chilly, overcast, and MUDDY! Both the main road and the cut-through road (that we use occasionally and the route the PM and his entourage were taking) were almost impassable!



Here is the entourage arriving at the back of the property. As you
can see from the angle of the first car, the police are very stuck. Luckily, the on-lookers quickly pushed them out and they continued on (albeit to just more slippery sticky mud).






Click on the pic to enlarge it and you'll see that even men with machine guns are not immune to the weather here. We were surprised that the security was light and seemingly low-key. Maybe the fact that the guys have automatic weapons has something to do with it? They had sent an advance detail out the day before to scout out the site, but no one "official" arrived before the PM to do any security work at all.




As the entourage was leaving, the PM's wife's car got stuck in the mud (this pic is right outside the banda). The men had to step into the mess to heave the car out. I think there's a connection between Clive's (the guy in the red coat) happy face and the fact that he was the only one that dressed sensibly for the day!