Wow, I just Google’d “What’s the date” and still can't believe that it's already April! I didn’t do a whole lot of traveling this week because we spent most of the time working on the research project. I won’t bore you with the administrative details, however, I’ll just let you know that it’s moving along quite nicely!
On Tuesday I went to Shinyanga with Fr. Donnie to do some errands. Due to the fact that this trip was filled with distractions, we didn’t exactly get everything done on the list. For example, we stopped the Tanzania Immigration to re-new my visa until August. To our surprise, the officers informed us that I would need to physically leave to country and come back in, if I wanted to stay. So that means I can either go take a long bus trip to Nairobi, Kenya or make the leisurely journey to two of the most spectacular vacation spots on Earth, Burundi (had a civil-war in the 1990’s) or Rwanda (I think we all know what happened there). Anyway, let me know if anybody has a preference.
With that said, we did successfully accomplish one major objective: we tracked down the “gold-digger”. As we left around 7am, Fr. Donnie explained to me that a woman, who had worked as one of his researchers, fled Ndoleleji after taking a substantial amount of his money. Primarily concerned about her well-being, Fr. Donnie repeatedly contacted the woman, but failed to reach her every time. Recently, Fr. Donnie had received word that the woman was working in Shinyanga as a potato farmer. Dog the Bounty Hunter (I mean Fr. Donnie) and the rest of us invaded the woman’s neighborhood. After grabbing two random kids who apparently knew the woman and throwing them into the truck, (the total number of passangers now being 14…including Fr. Donnie and I), we were directed to where she usually works. Unfortunately, we were unable to confront the woman, but now there’s like 10 witnesses who gave the same account…As far as I’m concerned the case is closed!
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