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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 …
Goats Donkeys Cattle
Goats, Donkeys & Cattle
When is Sera coming back?
When is Sera coming back? 10 – 26 March 2004 “Seven years was a long time to be away from one’s clan. A man’s place was not always there, waiting for him. As soon as he left, someone else rose to fill it. The clan was like a lizard; if it lost it’s tail, it …
Namibian Buildings
Cuca Shops & other Buildings Namibia is famous for the creatively-named small shops and businesses in Ovamboland.
Environment
Description of the Owamboland Environment 15 December 2002 Hello from Namibia, Sera and I have been living here in southern Africa now for just under 2 months. We have been busy with a fairly intense training schedule and thus we have learned and experienced quite a bit. Below, I have described in detail the landscape, …
Idle Talk
Idle Talk 9 October 2003 I’m going to start this e-mail in a typical Namibian fashion: Greetings colleagues. So-o, I don’t really have anything to say…it’s only that…[insert 2 hour meeting about “nothing” here]. But really, not much is happening around here. It’s hot—high of 103F today. HIV/AIDS club is going along somewhat haphazardly. The …
letterS
HOME | LETTERS (chronological) letters by Topic These letters are organized according to content, although some cover several topics. Also, please note that the “back” and “forward” links at the bottom of each letter go in chronological order. Descriptions of Namibia (environment, culture, people) There is no dirt here | Omege, Our Village | Ekulo, Our …
