Mvimwa Abbey has a house in the city of Sumbawanga where a few of the monks who work at the secondary school live. This is where Charlie and I stayed last week on the second night of our trip. This is charlie sitting on the nice lounge chairs on the outside porch getting ready to watch the sun go down.
The house is nice inside. There is a chapel, 6 or 7 bedrooms i think, a dining room, and a nice sitting room to read or watch TV. I think i even saw a couple Jean Claude Van Damme VHS cassettes by the VCR. It is pretty comfortable living!
We toured the school on Monday evening after we arrived, and the rest of the town on Tuesday morning before we headed to Mvimwa to see the Abbey. We saw the post office, a couple internet cafes, some restaurants and large guest hostels, and even a nice kid play place with a friendly gorilla greeter. I think this is the Sumbawanga equivalent of our Chuck E Cheese.
Just one suggestion, don't try the "ice cream."
Tuesday afternoon we left for Mvimwa, but we stayed in Sumbawanga for one more night on our travel back home. On Friday night when we were in town, we stayed in the rectory of Christ the King parish with Fr. Pambo. He is a monk of Mvimwa abbey, but lives at and runs the parish in town. It is a beautiful church. It would be great to be a part of the parish community here. Fr. Pambo was very welcoming and simply loves being a priest. A great spirit to have leading a church like this.
All of the artwork is from inside the church.Here is Fr. Pambo playing the organ for us. He is pretty talented at this too.
All in all, Sumbwanga seems like a pretty nice town.
Come back again tomorrow for part 3 of 4 from our recon. tomorrow: the abbey.
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this is the rose that is smooth, cool to touch,sleep with and stay with it in all life long.we will miss him so much....ts Francis Mbalamwezi GOD BLESS YOU ALL
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