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Arriving and training |
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Life at the school |
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Outside school hours |
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Travelling photos |
(The above picture
is banner put up to welcome visitors to the school on graduation day. Karibuni
means `welcome everybody' in KiSwahili)
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6 Tosamaganga Secondary School. The school i taught at for 3 years.
This is a picture of Friday morning assembly.
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7 Another view of the school. Tosamaganga was built by the Roman Catholic
Church early part of this century and was taken over by the Tanzanian government
at independence in the mid 60's. The mission stills plays a big part in
peoples lives at the school. The is a large parish church, seminary, convent
and primary school still at Tosamaganga. Nuns, priests and kids everywhere!
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8 View of the school. The two big buildings in the far ground are dormitories.
The long building in the foreground is the main admin block and the white
building on the left is the school church.
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9 More school buildings. The biology lab on the left, classrooms in
the middle and then one of the chem labs.
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10 More classrooms
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11 The staff room during 'chai' time at 11am.
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12 The academic office. All teaching and discipline was coordinated
from here and there was always lots of work to do.
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13 A picture of one of my classes just after i arrived. This
was by far the smallest class i taught with approx. 30 students. All the
other classes were more like 60 in size.
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14 The same class during their last lesson with me, just before their
A-level exams.
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15 In the classroom doing an exam.
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16 Form 6 students sitting their A-level exams.
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17 Catherine in the lab supervising a practical
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18 Graduation Day! Students receive their leaving certificates and
everyone has a big party with tons of food. The teachers get prizes for
last years results and lots of free beer.
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19 Students singing and dancing a thankyou to all the staff during
the graduation ceremony
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20 Me with some of my students on graduation day.
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21 Sister Anna Rose, a woman of unbounded energy, whom i worked with
in the library. In this picture she is serving cake to 100 odd people at
a meal during a visit by the Minister of Education.
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22 A picture of another one of my classes just before their exams.
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23 Some of my students just before they left.
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24 A picture of the library. During my time at Tosamaganga, me and
the other volunteers renovated the school library which had been lying
unused for about 20 years.
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25 The computers that were donated to the school from England.
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26 A picture of students mending the road. The typical punishment for
students at the school.
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27 The success of the school football team was of paramount importance
for school moral and there was always an opportunity to do some coaching
or get a game. A picture of Si playing in a game.
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28 A Panoramic view of the school
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Arriving and training |
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Life at the school |
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Outside school hours |
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Travelling photos |