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Class Rank: 2/301 My dream is to be an engineer someday because my uncle is an engineer , I admire him! I will study extra hard in three subjects: Physics, Math and Chemistry. My moment I felt especially proud is when I scored the 2nd best out of three hundred and one students in my terminal exam. My happiest moment in my life is when I get to live with my uncle and aunt after my parents died. I did not have to live in an orphanage. My most difficult experience is when I failed in my standard seven mock exams. Thanks God it was only a mock test! I learnt to always study and I thank God because now I am the 2nd best student. After my dream come true I plan to give back to the School Fund by helping other students who live a hard life. I will also take part in social activities to help those poor children in my community.

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Indy
Fri, October 26, 2018 at 5:48 pm GMT
Hi School Fund Students

Sorry it took me a while to write to you. For those of you who is receiving my journal the first time, let me introduce myself.

My name is Indy. I am currently living at the same town as Ms Judy. She and I went to high school together. I am so happy to have this opportunity to get to know you.

I used to work with computers for many many years. Do you like to use computers?

Yesterday I met with some of my old school friends for lunch. These are the friends I have for almost 50 years. We talked about our school days when we were 12 years old.
It brought many happy memories.

Do you enjoy your school? Now is the time to form good friendship with your classmates? What do you do with your classmates? Do you study together? Do you talk and share secrets? I know you have a lot of study to do. Hopefully you can find some time to do some fun stuff with your friends.

Please write back to let me know what interests you.

Until next time,
your friend,
Indy
Jonathan
Fri, October 27, 2017 at 3:43 am GMT
Dear Students,

I love to collect wisdom from different sources that are meaningful to me.
Below are a few of my favorites that I would like to share with you:

1) When you master your emotions, you master your life
Anger. This is one emotion that is sure to pop up sometime during the day. How you deal with your anger says a lot about who you are as a person. How well do you manage your emotions? Do you have a harsh reaction if someone says something insulting to you? Anger can be a destructive emotion if not managed properly.

2) Respect other people’s opinions even when they differ from your own.

Conflict. It’s rare that two people agree on most topics. Conflict is everywhere. It happens at work, home, with family and friends. Disagreeing isn’t the problem (although most people think it is). The problem is not giving value to the opinions of others.

3) Experience The Joy Of Learning
Each time you learn something new you gain more knowledge and with more knowledge come more confidence. Learning helps us become more adaptable and flexible to new situations. Learning encourages us to be more creative and innovative in our thinking and we are therefore more comfortable with the unknown.
Reading books is a great way for us to learn. To fully embrace the joy of learning, never stop reading and searching for more knowledge.

4) Touch someone’s soul with your kindness
Random Acts of Kindness. It’s the little things in life that matter most. Hold a door, smile at people. Kindness does not cost much and it touches the soul of another person.

5) Speech is a powerful tool.
Your words. Watch your words carefully. They can be daggers or building blocks. You can crush the spirit of someone or make them feel like they can conquer the world. Taste your words before you spit them out. Words are your thoughts coming to life. It’s your choice.

What are your favorite quotes and wisdom to live by? I’d love to hear your thought on that.
Cheers,
Jonathan Gilbert
Judy
Tue, October 10, 2017 at 12:13 am GMT
Hello students,

I finally got back to the US last week.
It has been a very long trip to Tanzania this year total three weeks.

I was very happy to meet all of you and know everyone better.

My trip started from Karatu. I visited 5 schools in Karatu and I learn where do you go to school every day.

I am very happy to know all of you are doing well and every of you has a dream that you want to be successful one day. I encourage all of you to try your best to reach you own destination.

The get together was so well prepared and done by each of you. I am very happy to saw all your science presentations and poems you wrote to TSF and me. I will treasure them all my life.

I can say I am very proud to all of you. Keep up the good work I want to see each of you one day get to
good University/College to reach your own dream.

After Karatu, I went to ARUSHA attended the TED Global conference and visited couple schools in ARUSHA.
I enjoyed the TED conference this year. It was focused on the Africa, specially in agriculture, health and education.

Mr. Amos was a volunteer there, he had great experience being this Global conference and met people from around the world.
He had a life experience at the conference, where he was able to meet a group of bright inventive and talented group of people.

Later I went to Iringa. Iringa almost the second hometown for me. I have been there six times.
I visited all 8 schools in Iringa and meet all of you in person. I was very happy to meet you.

I had a great time at the get together party. All of you did a wonderful presentation. I am very happy to know all of you had fun that night.

My this year Tanzania trip was set MMM computer center for most of the 13 TSF schools.
At Iringa, We build total 5 new computer center in Iringa girls, Klerruu, Lugalo, Ebenezer, Miyomgoni and Update one MMM center at Ummusalama. We build one new computer center at Karatu Secondary School and update one MMM center at Ganako.

I am very proud of building the MMM computer center in most of the TSF schools. I really want all of you to go to the computer center to learn every subject you are interested from the RACHEL PLUS.
In the future everyone work will be on the computer. I hope that every single of you tell me what do you learn from the RACHEL PLUS.
I would like you could to start the debate team in your school so you all could practice how to speak in the public. Have the Math Club and challenge each other on the Math.

They will all benefit your long-term confidence.

I hope I will hear from all of you soon.
Ying
Sun, October 1, 2017 at 4:31 am GMT
Hi students,

How are you? I am so glad that I can get to know you. I enjoy reading your stories and seeing you on the way to pursue your goal. Although we are in different parts of the world, we can encourage each other through journals.

I hope you are doing well and let's share ideas of life, school and everything.

Best,

Ying
Judy
Sat, August 19, 2017 at 5:36 pm GMT
My fellow student:

Welcome back to school! This is a new semester, it is time for new goals. new ideas and new learning.
At end of last semester, I wrote to you to write to me about the most remarkable or important thing that happened to you during your holiday! I am looking forward to reading your reply when you next write your journal.. Now while I really interested in what are you taking this year what will be your favorite subjects.

Knowledge will give you the power to be known you must read everything you can the more you know the more valuable you will be as a person and to your society.

I am coming to Tanzania at end of August and beginning the September.
I am looking forward to seeing you all.

Have fun and stay focuse! Best wish for all of you!
Richard Benard
Fri, July 28, 2017 at 11:13 am GMT
Hi judy,
How are you madam? I hope you are fine .And don't worry about me,
because i am also fine.Am so glad to hear that you are coming in Tanzania,so we are welcome you.And every day i pray to God to give you more lives for your help.
yours,
Richard.
Richard Benard
Fri, July 21, 2017 at 10:47 am GMT
Hi karen,
how are you? I hope you are healthily fine and don't worry about me,because i am also fine.

I am very glad to see your journal post because it's been a while
since you write to me.But am happy with my school life although i
face some challenges such as coming so far from home to school.

But i thank God till to reach this point because now we about to finish, because we have remained we almost two months to do our final exams.

Lastly i am very happy to hear that madam judy is coming.And i wish if she could come even today.so i welcome her in Tanzania.
"Welcome madam"
Yours,
richard.
Karen
Wed, July 19, 2017 at 2:02 am GMT
Hello School Fund students!

Welcome to a new school year. I hope that your long break was full of family and friends, good work and good times.

I also hope you can reset your mind quickly back to class and lessons, learning and growing in your knowledge base.

I look forward to reading your posts this year, to learning more about you: your joys and hopes and challenges.

I also have some news! Madam Judy is coming to visit Tanzania in July and August!

This is a very good chance to meet a fine lady, a good friend of yours, and a very important person for your future.

Until soon?
Welcome back,
Karen
Henry F.
Fri, June 30, 2017 at 12:31 pm GMT
Hello Richard,

It has been a really long time since I wrote to you concerning school stuffs.
I hope that you had a great holiday season and I hope that you used this holiday wisely to compensate the lost time during the normal days.

Myself in this holiday I have been busy covering the remaining topics and doing some revisions on the previous ones and I would really appreciate to know what you did during this long holiday.

Hope to hear from you soon
says
Henry.
Richard Benard
Sat, June 17, 2017 at 10:49 am GMT
Hi judy,
How are you? i hope that you are fine.And i am so glad that you have written down to me a journal post.And liked your statement that you have written that is 10%is hard work and 10%is your talent,so ,this means it doesn't matter you have a talent but you need to work hard so that you can achieve your goals.
The thing that makes me feel so proud is that now i have covered all topics of form four so even at this time i can do my final exams,and all these is because of your support ,because some topics i tried to cover my self through reading the books that we were given .so this thing makes me feel so proud.

Yours,
Richard,
Judy
Wed, May 31, 2017 at 4:44 pm GMT
My fellow students, time just flew so fast. This semester is close to its end. You all must be very busy preparing for your final exams.

I hope you are all doing a great job this semester. Some of you graduated at end of the last year. You must very anxious waiting for your notification which A-level school you are assigned to.

Doesn't matter where you are going, the most important is the goals your set and your determination to accomplish your golds.

The Chinese always say 90% is hard work and only 10% is your talent. You could accomplish everything as long as you want to.

During your break, I would like you to write down what your major accomplishing and one thing which makes you proud of yourself that you would like to share with everybody. The things your did which will make me so proud of you and encourage me to continue to support you for your future school years. My goal for all of you, one day for your to go to College/University, You are somebody everybody will proud of you.

The way to do is that you set your final goal, the goal between one step a time and try reach it then go for the next goal, eventually, you will reach your final destination.

Best regards,
Judy
Richard Benard
Sat, May 27, 2017 at 11:01 am GMT
Hi judy,
how are you doing? I hope that you are fine. It's been a long time since you write a journal to me .but I know you may be busy .
Every day I pray for you to have long lives because you are so merciful and helpful to support our school fees and other requirements .so I hope to hear from you soon.
stay blessed,
Richard.
John George
Sat, May 13, 2017 at 9:12 am GMT
hi Richard,
well my friend I am fine. I also appreciate my care for you. i have a simple question to you if you could have had a chance to be elected as the president of this country what are the first three things which will you do and why are you indebt to do them ?
I also wish you nice preparation to the coming mock examination.
%%%%%%ALL THE BEST%%%%%%%%

YOUR CLASSMATE
JOHN GEORGE.
Richard Benard
Sat, April 29, 2017 at 11:45 am GMT
Hi Brend,
It's me again. Because in your journal you've asked me a question that if I had 3 wishes would I use them? so I would like to answer as follows, the first wish I could wish to my sister whom is going to do her final exams because she is in form six. And the other wish I would like to wish to madam judy and all T.S.F members who are providing help to us to have long lives. And the last wish I would like to wish to my friend whose his happy birth day is on the last of this month.
Thank you,
Yours,
Richard.
Richard Benard
Sat, April 29, 2017 at 11:28 am GMT
Hi Brend,
How are you ? I'm so happy to get a new friend. And I hope you are fine as well as your school life. So let us take this an opportunity to know each other through journals because you said you like sports, so I'd like to know which type of sports you like most either football,baskert ball or volley ball and if football I'd like to know which team do you like most? because even me I like football very much.
Yours,
Richard.
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