January 23, 2011

Twikitane


Twikitane is were Jeremy's dad was assigned by MCC to work
Twikitane is a vocational school. When they lived there the school taught carpentry and tailoring. Now they have add two computer courses. It was nice to see is has grown in a way of modernness, but from what I understand is that the number of students isn't as high, but still doing well.
The school is kind of run by or under the cap of the monastery where their house was located. They also run a printing press that does calenders, magazines and some books. We got a tour of it all...it was soo fun. They also have a book store that they run. We got to meet some of the priests that remembered the Patkau's. It was great.
This is the house that Jer and his family lived in--it has been expanded since then...you can kind of see where on the roof. Jer also said they had cut down the poinsettia tree in the front yard. I loved being able to see where they are talking about when they talk about the Ndola house and about the fathers.

Here they are talking to a watchmen that had remembered them...it was amazing how many people remember Lorne. It was awesome.

This is the carpentry shop.

This was a newish building. This is where they teach computer classes. They have a beginner and an advanced course.

There is a new shop for the carpentry and an older one near that. Lorne is walking to meet a friend. He explained how everything was going well. This is the printing press. It was pretty busy at the time printing calenders.

There are these cool gazebos across from the church. Jeremy said that he remembers choirs practising out there all the time.

This is.....well I can't remember but Jer says St. Anthony's. It was beautiful. We got a tour from a couple of the fathers that we had had tea and toast with. It was soo great to hear stories new and old. God is good and alive there.

1 comment:

Kelsie-Lynn said...

Great post Venessa! I love seeing all the pictures and hearing about it all.