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Sera Finally Gets Surgery
Sera Finally Gets Surgery 26 January 2004 “But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Is it right that you, Okonkwo, should bring your mother a heavy face and refuse to be comforted?” —Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Hi Zac! I worked at mom’s on Monday and Tuesday …
Host Family
Host Family During our two months of training in Omege, we stayed with a very nice host family.
Namibia Homesteads
Homesteads and Traditional Houses Most of the Owambos in northern Namibian villages still live in traditional houses, although more houses now are a combination of huts and cement block rooms. The homesteads are surrounded by their mahangu field, so during the growing season the house is concealed by the tall millet stalks. In the towns …
Tour of Southern Namibia
A Tour of Southern Namibia 25 May 2004 (For a fresh perspective on Namibia and an account of the last two weeks of our school holiday, we have enlisted Sera’s dad, Nelson, as a guest columnist for this e-mail.) Stana and I have been touring Namibia for just over two weeks. The best way to …
Goats
Goats Owambos like goat meat the best.
School Slowly Starts
School Slowly Starts 22 January 2004 Hello Everyone, Ekulo Senior Secondary School is now open for business! With baby steps and halting lurches the 2004 school year is slowly building steam. This week we might even get around to teaching some lessons. For those of you who hate getting homework on the very first stinkin’ …
Computers and Math
Computers and Math 15 February 2004 Hello and welcome back to your Namibia volunteer-logue. The new school term is four weeks old already so let me fill you in with what has been a transpirin’. Well, first off, I have some big news for you chicken fans out there. Our white hen is sitting on …
Flowers
Flowers & Plants
Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park We lived just 15km from Etosha, one of the best game-viewing parks in Africa. “Etosha National Park is surely one of the world’s greatest wildlife-viewing venues. Its name, which means ‘Great White Place of Dry Water’, is taken from the vast white and greenish-colored Etosha Pan. However, it’s the surrounding bush and …
Cape Town
Zac goes to Cape Town, South Africa 11 January 2004 Hello! Now that Sera has gone and left the continent I find that the Namibian email torch has been passed to me. So I will try to do my best to fill Sera’s shoes and replicate her laser wit, biting sarcasm and insightful humanity. She …