Monday, February 25, 2008

Mr Mjengwas visit

Hi people as usual I am back again writing to you my readers of this wonderful(no comment) blog. Um I am sure if you are a good follow up of this blog you remember that recently (meaning a few weeks ago) I wrote to you about Mr Mjengwa and his blog and how his blog is very critical I must say but also very interesting. Well what I have got to say is that Mr Mjengwa came to our school. Some people might say so? But if you really knew Mr Mjengwa you will know what I am rattling on about.
Mr Mjengwa is a very busy man and he has got a very tight schedule and it is not that you can get hold of him just when you feel like. It was three weeks later that we actually could get hold of him. Our IT teacher Mr Klose was very kind to get him to come to our school. so that was kind of what made Mr Mjengwa's visit to our school rather significant.
The other thing that was important was what we learnt from that 50 minute talk. I learned to be courageous and feel free to express what I feel in a tactful way.
Anyways guys I seriously got to go. So bye and I will write soon.
Ciao Mariam(duh)

Monday, February 11, 2008

Prime minister resigns


The former prime minister of the democratic republic of Tanzania Edward Ngoyai Lowassa has resigned. This occurred last week when the prime minister was charged against stealing money from the Tanzanian government.
This was mainly to do with the dealings of Mr Lowassa and the and a company called Richmond. It is said that the government was paying about the some of 152 million Tanzanian shillings a day to the company of Richmond, for them to produce electricity for the national grid of country. to this day Richmond has not yet produced any electricity while it has been payed to do that for the past two years. Instead the money that has been payed by our hard(yeah right) working government (which mostly comes of the taxes being payed by the Tanzanian people) has ended up in the big pockets of Mr Lowassa. So when the report of the investigation was given, Mr Lowassa said that he will resign but he still denied all charges. He did keep his word and now he has resigned.
So Tanzania has now got a new prime minister who goes by the name of Mzengo Peter Pinda. I would personally like to congratulate the MP of Kyela for the work he did and the courage he had to pin point a government official. So thats all.
Thank you for reading this
yours sincerely
Miriam a.k.a Mariam

Monday, January 14, 2008

Great blog Mr Mjengwa

Today am going to talk about one of thee many blogs I have been reading recently. This is a blog written by Mr Mjengwa who is the parent of four students in my school(don't worry am not going to associate that with what am going to talk about).
So yeah where was i? Oh yeah, Mr Mjengwa has a political blog which I think would be very wise if all of us sane people visit the blog. Mostly I think the blog is a critical eye to the government and the way the country is today. There are lots (and i mean it lots) of funny cartoons which personally I think are fantastic. Actually I laughed so hard that I got a rib ache(that maybe because i laugh too hard). What he talks about in this blog is true and they are things that are happening today in Tanzania. If we had lots of people writing like Mr Mjengwa I think the government will wake up more and behave(no comment).
So that's all I can say for today and if you have not visited his blog you should, you actually cant say you cant because you don't have his blog address, because am going to give it to you now. It is mjengwa.blogspot.com. no excuses please make sure you do otherwise I will make you.
Good bye for now, yours truly
Mariam

Monday, December 3, 2007

Tanzania's worst thing

hi guys
hey today i am going to talk about on thing i hate about Tanzania my country. Tanzania is the third poorest country in the world. this does not mean that Tanzania is filled with mud huts no running water at all no electricity no food and so on and so forth. Tanzania is a good place but it is not the same as USA or Britain. it does have running water in most of its cities and towns some places do have electricity and most people have food except for the really poor in very faraway villages.

Actually Tanzania has quite a lot of money. loans from rich countries, donations from NGOs and from other organisations around the world. the biggest question is that where does all this money go? the money is not only from outside countries but from the Tanzanite in Arusha too? we know that money is given to us for certain people like the victims of AIDS or malaria but for one reason it never reaches the people who are appointed. Tanzania is very corrupt. the money usually ends up in "big men's" pocket. if the money ever reaches the people it is only something like 40%. 60% disappears.

the corruption is not only in the government on roads too. if you want to escape from your problems just pay a certain amount of money and you are OK. so corruption is what i hate about Tanzania and it is not a nice thing. trust me it brings down the development of a country.

Monday, November 26, 2007

morogoro

Hi
this week our senior school went on a sports weekend to morogoro (a region in tanzania 5 hours from iringa). we went to visit morogoro international school. zanzibar international school were there too. we did lots of sports like swimming, hockey, football and waterpolo. it was great fun. we were there from the 23 to the 25 of november. on saturday evening there was some dancing and a barbeque. i enjoyed myself so much i wish this weekend could repeat it's self. anyway that's all for more read me later. have a good week cheerz.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Rihanna

hi
this one of my favourite singers. i like her because of many reasons firstly because she is beautiful and she has got wonderful songs. Her name is Rihanna and i suppose you will agree with me that she is the best.

Monday, October 22, 2007

the beginning

hi welcome to iringa. this is about me life here in a small town in tanzania iringa. it is on the southern highlands of tanzania.