Dear Students,
Happy Year of the Tiger!
During Chinese New Year, people are doing a lot of celebration activities. The main Chinese New Year activities include 1) putting up decorations, 2) offering sacrifices to ancestors, 3) eating reunion dinner with family on New Year's Eve, 4) giving red envelopes (money to kids) and other gifts, 5) and doing/watching firecrackers and fireworks. The tiger embodies courage and bravery, so the new year could symbolize resilience and strength — even in times of struggle. May the new year bring you new possibilities, new horizons, new success and new joys.
Grace

Hello everyone,
Rise and shine, it's another year! 2021 has gone and 2022 has come. We have moved a step ahead. We are either at or very near to success. Memories of the last year are untold, both the joy and the tears.
Where we made proper decisions of our actions, we got better results and where we didn't we have learnt how to do better. He who never learn from his course of action never develop but he who takes time to review his past, makes his future better. As the year begins, let's get time to review and shape our plans to accommodate opportunities/challenges coming up with the new year.
When you plan you create a mental road to success. When you walk through that road (implement) you get assurance of reaching to your destined goal. The destined goal is the real pleasure/joy that one is determined to achieve. Plan and walk smart so you can get the happiness you want in this world.

regards,

Nyambo.

Dear Students,
It is almost November, and we have just finished interviewing some of the new school fund students. It was so great to see and talk to these students over Skype. Being able to see the students' smiles, full of joy when they talk, warms my heart. It encourages me to work harder to support the children in Africa. Please keep up the good work! I hope to hear from you.
Much Love,
Grace

Hello All,

I just want to say hello to all of you. It has been a hard year because of the COVID.
We are luck down at home most of the time. I love to travel, but I have not been gp to any place this year. Hope everything will get better, so I can come to Tanzania to visit you soon. Keep good work "MMM" your success is the best thing you could give back to me.
If you are a Form 4 student, very soon you will have your National Exam. I wish you well prepare yourself and do a great job. I will pray for you. Write in your Journal and let me know how do you do. The rest of you study hard so you will get good grades for you final quarter of your school.

Dear Students,
Hope you are all doing well and stay healthy. Today, I wanted to introduce an US tradition to you - home coming. Homecoming is an annual tradition in the United States. People, towns, high schools and colleges come together, usually in late September or early October, to welcome back former members of the community. It is built around a central event, such as a banquet or dance and, most often, a game of American football, or on occasions, basketball, ice hockey or soccer. When celebrated by schools, the activities vary widely. However, they usually consist of a football game played on a school's home football field, activities for students and alumni, a parade featuring the school's choir, marching band and sports teams, and the coronation of a homecoming queen (and at many schools, a homecoming king). A dance commonly follows the game or the day following the game.
When attached to a football game, homecoming traditionally occurs on the team's return from the longest road trip of the season or the first home game of a season that falls after an away game. The game itself, whether it be football or another sport, will typically feature the home team playing a considerably weaker opponent. The game is supposed to be an "easy win" and thus weaker schools will sometimes play lower division schools.
A lot of schools are celebrating homecoming this month. My daughter's college is having their homecoming this coming weekend. So my husband and I are going to her college to attend the festivity.
I hope you continue stay healthy and study hard.
Take care,
Grace

Dear Students,
It is almost September. Most of the students in the U.S. have returned to school already. Most colleges have also started school. I just came back home from dropping off my daughter to college for the first time. She is my first child that goes to college. It is really hard for parents to say goodbye to their children. We continue worrying about our children even when they are away. It is very important, however, for children to learn to be independent and to study in a high educational institution. It will not be easy, but college is a time when a child will mature as a person. It is also a time when their insights into how they fit into the ever evolving global economy will start to take shape. I hope one day you will also want to and have the opportunity to go to college.
Take care,
Grace

Hello Everyone,
Hope you are all doing well. Time really flies, it has been one and half years since Covit 19 started. Kids in the U.S. have finally gone back to school this fall. In my city, 99% of children age 12 to 17 is vaccinated. In the classroom, students are required to wear masks, but outside of the classroom, students do not need to wear masks nor need to have social distancing. All the club activities and sports teams have resumed to start soon. Most students are so excited attending school in person.
Hope you are all healthy and happy. Focus on things within your control, try your best in whatever you do. Get enough exercise to keep your body strong.
Hope to hear from you!
Grace

Hello Everyone,
Hope you are all doing well. Time really flies, it has been one and half years since Covit 19 started. Kids in the U.S. have finally gone back to school this fall. In my city, 99% of children age 12 to 17 is vaccinated. In the classroom, students are required to wear masks, but outside of the classroom, students do not need to wear masks nor need to have social distancing. All the club activities and sports teams have resumed to start soon. Most students are so excited attending school in person.
Hope you are all healthy and happy. Focus on things within your control, try your best in whatever you do. Get enough exercise to keep your body strong.
Hope to hear from you!
Grace

Hello,
Welcome back to your second semester. Wish all have a great semester ahead of you.
You are one step closer to your goals.
The form 4 students are going to have your National Examination. Hope you try very hard to prepare for your exam.
In here we still effect by the Covid. Luckily lots of us had our Vaccine. But the whole nation still effects by the Covid. Wish all of this could end soon. I would love to travel to Tanzania to visit you again after everything opens again.
I would like you to write about what happened to you at home and school, What most meaningful things happen to you, you would like to share with us.

Dear students,
Happy Spring! Hope you are all doing well. Here in the US according to a White House's senior advisor for Covid-19 response, an average of 3.1 million shots were administered each day over the past seven days, and nearly 1 in 4 adults are now fully vaccinated. Many schools are reopening in a 25% to 50% capacity. We hope things will go back to normal by the fall. Hope you are all healthy and safe!
Grace

Hi Students,
Hope you are all doing well. In the U.S., the students have just returned from one week Thanksgiving holiday. In California, the Corona Virus has become worse, so the government has limit the stores to be 25% capacity again. Most schools offer distance learning through Zoom or any other online platform. Most time, people need to line up outside before they are allowed to enter the stores. People can only get take out food from restaurants or eat at some outdoor dining places. When we go out, we are required to wear a face mask and stay 6 feet away from other people. We are glad that you are healthy and safe and that the Corona Virus is not as bad in Africa. We hope you do well in school and be healthy and happy!
Grace

Dear All,
I hope you are staying safe and healthy! Here in California, the Corona Virus cases have surged and the Covit color code has changed from orange to purple. Purple, or Tier 1, indicates that the virus is widespread in the county — with more than seven cases per 100,000 residents or more than 8% of tests results reported positive over seven days. Red (Tier 2) indicates “substantial” spread of the virus, while orange (Tier 3) indicates “moderate” spread and yellow (Tier 4) indicates “minimal” spread of the virus in the county. Most children are doing 100% distance learning at home. They attend each class on line through zoom on their computers. It is very difficult for children to be sheltered at home and not to have any social interactions with other kids. We hope and pray that the Corona Virus can get controlled and the vaccine can come soon so that everyone can resume life back to normal. I hope that you all stay safe and healthy. Enjoy your school as most kids in California can’t even go to school. God bless you all!
Grace

Dear student,

Time flies, This year went by so quickly. It is almost the end of the semester or the school year for you. Most of you are either about to take your National exam or the end of year exam. I wish you all will do your best and perform well. "Education is the passport of the future". Only you can control your destiny. Good luck no matter what you do. Pray to God to guide you along your way.

There were so many things that happened this year. There were presidential elections in both Tanzania and the US. In your country, the election went well. In the US, we still have issues with our election results, and we hope these will be resolved soon. COVID-19 has been really bad in the US. We have more than 1M people affected and many have died. It looks like the vaccines will be available soon, but it will take time to make enough for everybody. We are all looking forward to the year 2021. We wish for a better year ahead of us.

On a happier note, it is the holiday season now. Next week is Thanksgiving in the US. We thank God that everything good that has happened to us this year. Remember always to be thankful and appreciative. Then by the end of December it is Christmas and people exchange gifts. Children are very happy to get the gift that they wish to have. Then the New Year comes along soon after.

I wish that you learn more and be smarter than the year before. I wish you happiness, health, and that your wishes and dreams will come true.

Here autumn is just passing through and winter is coming around the corner. The weather is getting colder and colder every day. I would like to show some of our fall photos. Hope you like it.

Dear students,
I heard some of you have already done the national exams and some of you are about to take the exams. I just wanted to wish you the best in doing the exams. I know that you have worked really hard for the exams, and I do hope to hear the good news from you regarding your exam results. May God bless you!
Grace

Hello Everyone,
Thank you for sharing about the election in your country. We are also in the middle of presidential election in the U.S. I pray for peace in all the countries especially during the election time. It is okay for people to have different opinions about the candidates that they support, but it is not okay to have hatred toward each other. Let us agree to disagree and pray for peace around the world.
Grace