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My life has had some challenges that affected my past school life. Due to lack of food at school and other things that I was supposed to acquire. I was not comfortable and I had to go back home. Our home situation is not good for learning. There is no electricity. We use a small solar, which has dim light. My happiest moment was being selected to go to secondary school. I and the other students were so happy. I am proud of my ability to understand what to do at school. I understand that joining bad groups will destroy my dreams. To me the aim of learning is to be an engineer. I learn through listening carefully to the teacher when in class and reading the materials. Four years from now, I will be at A-level.

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Susan
Sun, December 9, 2018 at 9:45 pm GMT
Hi Students!

I just read all the journal entries I have received since October. Such wonderful letters! I am so impressed by how mature and articulate you have become. I’m realizing that I have now been reading some of your journals for 5 years. When I look at your photos, I don’t recognize the child I first knew. You are teenagers now.
I especially love the stories that some of you told in your journals. Moral tales, I call them.

So congratulations for working so hard. I’m hoping you will achieve your goals, go to a university if you want, and become productive members of your community, and able to help others as you have been helped.

I am enjoying retirement. My age of 76 is bringing on a bit of health problems, like arthritis, but I keep active physically and don’t let it stop me from doing what I love to do.

I read a lot. I travel. I go to jazz concerts in San Francisco. I would love to return to Kenya and Tanzania for a visit. I’d love to visit your school. Maybe it will happen. Who knows?

So keep up the great efforts. I know it can’t be easy, but this is such a wonderful opportunity.

Very fondly, Susan
Benson Johnson
Thu, December 7, 2017 at 12:35 pm GMT
Hi Susan. Do you know mixed farming .Is there such kind of Mixed farming in your country?
This is the type of farming which involves both crops farming and animal husbandry. It was practiced in areas which are characterized by easy exaustion of soil fertilty and unreliable rainfall. Crops grown are sorghm, maize, cassava, beans and millets and animals kept weregosats, donkeys, cattle, horses and sheeps.
Mixed farming are common among the Sangu, Gogo, Sukuma, Kurya, Fipa of Tanzania, Luya in South West Kenya and the Basoga and Gisu in Uganda.
Result of mixed farming include
1.Specialist classes in the societies. Some became specialized in pastoralism and others in crop cultivation.
2.Development of industries due to iron technology. Iron is a raw material for the production of goods, they are also needed in production of iron tools which are used in agriculture and defence.
3.Development of centralized states like Mwenemutapa, Luba Lunda, Kazembe, Lozi etc.
4.Growth of modern agriculture in several fertile land of Africa.
5.Increase the number of people because of availability of availability of food.
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