The House

We live in a beautiful setting.

Our house is the northernmost in a ring of faculty houses. At the center is a parklike area which everyone has agreed will not be developed. That's fine with us!

The picture on the right is taken from the middle of the park, looking north to our house. If you want to see a map of the campus, click here. This will open a new browser window for the Makumira website. Our house is the one at the top of the map, above the "a" in "Faculty Housing." On the same map, the view at the right was taken from the spot marked with the "s" in "Faculty housing."

The house itself, cement block, with a corrugated asbestos roof, is a comfortable three-bedroom home with Jim's office in the back. (Don't worry about the asbestos roof. It's the insulation you don't want.)

Judy uses a front bedroom for her office, and its window is on the left edge of the picture. The dining room is behind the covered porch, and the living room is behind the two sets of windows to the right. Our Land Rover peeks around the right edge of the house.

If you want to see the floor plan of the whole house, you first have to find the "webhouse" (that's us!) on the campus map. It's sort of a secret, hidden for kids patient enough to hunt. And it contains a spider! (Hint: it is clickable. Big hint: the answer lies in the fourth paragraph, near the top of this page!)

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Our "extended family"

To meet some really nice people, click here.

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Alphabet soup: MUCO, ACC, ANM and ELCT

Yes, even Tanzania has its "alphabet soup" (MUCO, ELCT, LMC, KCMC . . . the list goes on). The four big ones in our lives are ELCT, MUCO, ACC and ANM. And Jim has done the websites for all four.

ELCT is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. Their national headquarters is in Arusha, and you can click here for their website.

MUCO stands, of course, for Makumira University College. That's where we teach, and you can visit the MUCO website by clicking here.

ACC stands for Arusha Community Church, an English language interdenominational congregation, made up of folks from all over the world, including non-Swahili parts of Africa. A lot of our fellow missionaries in Arusha attend there, and, because of the "iffy" nature of Tanzania's phone system, ACC has become sort of a communications water hole (lots of networking!) as well as a worship center. Click here for their website, which also includes some nice maps of Arusha.

ANM stands for Arusha Node Marie, our Internet Service Provider (also known as "Habari"). ANM is sort of our northern Tanzania AOL, and the "Marie" part of the name comes from former missionary Marie Benson. Long story. You can go to their website and find some nice pictures of Arusha. You can also read about the Marie Benson connection.

Hobbies, car and dog
(can't live without 'em)

What do we do in our spare time? Not much happens in the evenings in this part of the world. But we enjoy reading and also playing and listening to music. And then there are other things--our hobbies--such as quilting for Judy and website design and other graphics projects for Jim. (To go to Judy's "Quilting Chest," click here.)

And where would we be without

our faithful Land Rover and our trusty dog Chui?

The former is rather rumpled, due to getting rolled with the whole family in the car back in 1994. (No one seriously injured, for which we thank God.) The latter, as you may or may not be able to see, is rather overfed and enjoying the good life.

Want some more news
about the Arusha area?

Try the Arusha Times website.

BUT keep in mind . . .
things here are
seldom as
bad as
they
say
!

. . . though sometimes . . .
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Website designer: James C. Bangsund
MUCO, Box 55, Usa River, Tanzania (East Africa)
bangsundhabari.co.tz
Last Revised 5 May 2005