About this blog

This blog was established July 5^th 2012, so we can celebrate seven years anniversary Friday this week. So far it has been 14 356 visitors (in fact visits because some people may have had more than one visit).

In the beginning all the visitors came from Norway, but gradually people also from other parts of the world have looked up smallandbigintanzania. In December 2016 the percentage of Norwegians was 52%, from abroad 48%. Up to today, July 2th 2019, the percentage from Norway has declined to 38% and from other countries 62%.

Up to December 2016 20% of the visitors came from USA and 10% from Russia. There are still many visitors from USA, but other countries have increased a lot. I can’t find the number of countries that are represented, but I guess it’s between 40 and 50, in all parts of the world. Since I’m the blogger I can get access to some information. Norway: 38%, USA: 16%, Russia: 15%, Ukraine: 11%,…Tanzania: 2%,…

 This is the print of the page that shows the 10 countries with the highest number of visitors:

And here you can see which are the 10 most popular stories:

The most popular article is the one about telling when I brought, in 2014, stuffed animals from pupils in two local Norwegian schools to the children living in the boarding.

Number 2 on the list is about the Norwegian woman Froydis Nordbustad who has lived most of her life in Mbulu. She constructed an alphabet and a grammar to the Iraqw language. She has also written the whole Bible in this language and organized teaching adult iraqw people to read and write. (I visited Mbulu for many years, but now we have not had contact for four years)

Visiting Godbless and Neema and watching everything they have accomplished has been a great experience for me. They run a school and a boarding where children and adults thrive and where the exam results are very good. In addition, they bring in many students who come from families with poor finances and let them pay a reduced fee. These experiences have given new dimensions to my life.

The big number of visits to the blog from all over the world also indicate that many others find this interesting and impressive.

And because of these facts i now write in English