We went with our three wageni -- Emily, Emily's dad Tom, and her friend Erin -- up to Nkoaranga Orphanage a few days ago, and this is the compassion Mwindaji showed for darling little Wema when she expressed her disappointment with not being allowed into the classroom that we painted earlier this year when the Belk's were in town.




Wema's name means "good" in Swahili.


And then there is Erin, who ironically looks very Anglo-Saxon, while everyone assumes I'm Jewish around town (my question is, how do Tanzanians know what Jews look like?). It's ironic because she actually is a Heeb, and I only feign as one.

That point is not relevant to anything, really. But on a related note, that being Erin Fleischer, what is she looking at??