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Hello world!
Welcome to the new AIM blog website of Bruce and Kate Dahlman! We are so excited to try this “new world” (for us) of blogging, vs. sending out our usual old “Dahlman Diary” emails. Do we know what...
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“It’s so wonderful what you’re doing! But you know, I have to say that I just couldn’t do what you’re doing; I could never Be a missionary Move to Africa Leave my family/job/friends/children It would...
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The Truth About (A Cat) and Dogs
“I have a little shadow; she goes everywhere with me….”* We have an 11-year-old dog, Chloe, that we’ve had since she was about six weeks old. She was a present to my daughter and me back in 2004 when...
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Packing it Up
I’ve been packing up the house, “slowly by slowly” (a favorite Kenya expression of ours, comparable to the American “little by little”). It’s “that time” again, to pack up the stuff, “this American...
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Reality Bites
We (Ryan and I) got me all packed up at the house, and I moved out on Friday last week. After Four weeks of packing up every closet, every drawer, every nook, every cranny; Stuffing it all into the...
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Thought That I Heard Crying…
….coming through my door; Was it Rachel weeping for her sons who were no more? Could it have been the babies crying for themselves, Never understanding that they died for someone else? (“Spirit of the...
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A Whole Lotta Good
We are having a whole lotta “good” in our lives right now (as opposed to “bad” or “ugali”; see “Hello World” post that explains our blog title). Our firstborn son is getting married to the love of his...
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Once Again
We arrived in Kenya two nights ago. The jet lag arrived today. It’s finally caught up with me; just like I knew it would. Whole-body weariness, the kind that settles on you like an oppressive blanket,...
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Fixer Upper
Fixer Upper Those of you who know me well know that I am a huge fan of “HGTV” when in the U.S. My favorite shows have included “House Hunters International”, “Beachfront Bargain Hunt” (my dream,...
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High Hopes
For those of you interested in more pics of our fixer-upper-in-process (see last blog post), here’s a shot of our recently updated guest bathroom: I had so much fun finding/pulling together the various...
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Bump ‘n Roll
It’s been a bit long between blog posts here on the “GBU”… So, let me first say “Happy New Year!”, which is the appropriate Kenyan greeting for anyone we haven’t seen or greeted since Dec. 31st (and...
View ArticleRaison d’etre
I read my students the riot act yesterday. Reading the Riot Act: “To give someone a severe scolding; to reprimand rowdy characters and warn them to stop behaving badly”. Not that I was worried that my...
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New Every Morning
The African dawn comes early on the equator. Before the sun even pops up over the horizon (between 6-6:30 a.m.), the “I’m Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs” bird (anyone remember him?) is the first to arise in...
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Six Months In
It’s official! I have now passed the half-year mark of being in Kenya at Kabarak University (Oct 29th-April 29th; for Bruce, a few months longer, as he arrived August, 2015). Slowly by slowly, I have...
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We had a robbery last week in our Kabarak apartment. The day had started out normally enough with us returning from Nairobi a day later than originally planned, due to a “truckers’ strike” that was...
View ArticleRight On Time
Haraka Haraka Haina Baraka (In hurry there is no blessing) Generally speaking (though it’s so cliché to say it), things tend to move a bit slower here in Kenya. Including right here at Kabarak...
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When Helping Hurts
“Hey Bruce….is your phone near you, because it’s been ringing and ringing!” I shout out to my husband, who’s working on the computer in the other room. “Yes, I know, thanks. I have it right here…it’s...
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Do The Right Thing
I’ve been teaching “Ethics” to my first-year nursing students all month as part of their “Fundamentals of Nursing Practice” course. We’ve covered the usual definitions and several ethical theories,...
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Being “Other”
I have a student, let’s call him “Kip”, who is in the first year of the nursing program at Kabarak University. Kip did not do very well academically in my Fundamentals of Nursing I class last semester....
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Poured Out
It wasn’t supposed to end this way. The last day of class of the January-April trimester, teaching first-year nursing students that I have come to know a bit better this second time around (meaning I...
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