You just can't beat the good people of Götenborg (Sweden's largest town after Stockholm)! Whether they are Swedes, Americans or ex-pats from other countries,they are enthusiastic about supporting our work with AIDS orphans in Tanzania.
We've enjoyed past support from the American Women's Club, International Women's Club, International School Gothenburg Region, and others there in the past. This west coast city is pronounced "Goteeborry" in Swedish and in English is spelled and said "Gothenberg."
And mid-May brings more enthusiasm from AWC!
On Friday, May 21 at 7 p.m., attend the club-sponsored cocktail party with entertainment by the Yale Alley Cats, the top-notch a capella group from Yale University (they've sung for every U.S. president since their 1943 founding!). The gala will be held at the elegant Överås Mansion at Danska Vägen 20 in the Örgryte area of the city.Jane's Place is catering, and there'll be some goodies from Tanzania for sale! Tickets are 3000 SEK, payable Plusgiro 50 55 17-3 but tickets are limited, so act fast! Follow it all at http://aidscharityconcert.blogspot.com.
Saturday, May 22 at at 5 p.m., AWC again sponsors the Yale Alley Cats in a free concert at Oscar Fredrik's Kyrkan - the perfect place for runners and fun-seekers to head after the big half-marathon ends. A club cake sale and donations will also support our orphans. The singers will provide a whole different program from that at the cocktail party.
Be there for some delightful entertainment, yummy food, and a great cause!
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GETTING THE GOATS HOME
Leading the goats to the pickup truck wasn't easy!
The goats are now at home on the bibi farm, with wide open spaces to graze on.
This where the bibis will raise animals and crow cassava to feed their grandchildren and to sell. Fatuma, Dickson and Jann are in front, with pen to left, unfinished farmhouse in middle and neighbor's nyd watle house in rear right.
SMART GIRLS FIELD TRIP
Smart Girls Club on a field trip to art center to explore career opportunities.
We picnicked...
...And then we went for ice cream.
Emil of Unique Batiks told the girls about his designs.
The girls learned how the primitive Tinga Tinga painting style began.
Can you believe we got 23 people into this van?
ISGR 4th Graders Donate
These students in Goteborg, Sweden raised over $500 for the new Bibi Jann Farm!
DISCOVERING NEW YORK...
St. Patrick's Cathedral
An NYC cop in Times Square
Hors d' voueres at the mayor's Gracie Mansion
Rooftop garden - imagine! with social workers Lysa and Katharine at the4 Grandparent Apts. in the Bronx.
HALLOWEEN
Jann applies makeup
A well-decorated yard
Fatuma and son-in-law Tom in air-filled clown suit
Candy break
Sorting the loot
Fatuma, Jann's son Keith Hess at Eugene Waldorf School
Snow Fun
Tom captures the first sled ride
Ready to go...
Oops!
Warming up inside the lodge
Cuddled up to a carved critter
A cup of cocoa helps
Renee gifts Fatuma with a souvenir snow globe so she can have snow in Tanzania
Fatuma's first visit to American grocery, shopping for Tanzanian fare
...But we can't find the Tanzanian aisle!
Kitchen is more elaborate than what Fatuma is used to
Girls watch Fatuma make chipati
Son-in-law Tom has his hands washed
Chloe, Eva like eating with their fingers
...And so do Japanese visitors Miho, Ruli
Fatuma finds the Oregon Coast more rugged than Tanzania's
A new way to dry hands!
Fatuma, Jeanne, Suzanne enjoy Horn of Africa restaurant
Meeting a sturgeon
Watching barge navigate the dam through the lock
Salmon migrating upstream will die after spawining
Multnomah Falls from afar
FANCY FOOTWASH
Fatuma, Jann and Renee soak their tootsies in warm water while rollers kneads their backs.
...While catching it on camera
...Sparkle on the toes
...Plus a manicure
...Resulting in fancy footwork
...After a day in school
...Including cafeteria lunch
GETTING A GRIP ON AMERICA
Nine-year-old Chloe, Jann's granddaughter, teaches the teaches about local currency.
...And it inhabitants
Pirate-themed kids' concert
..Some of whom dress better
Fatuma with the Heathman Hotel doorman and Miho, the Japanese girl visiting my daughter's home.
And its gadgets
Testing the $3,500 Brookstone massage chair
Even moving stairs!
Mall escalator
But kids are the same everywhere
Chloe, Eva, Alexa and Miho have fun at Gramma's tumbling dominoes
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