http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Namibia en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 16:37:35 +0000 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:37:35 +0000 Hello Everyone Sorry it has been so long but I have been busy having adventures My sister Nicki is here and we are at this very moment driving from Swakopmund on the coast to Etosha National Park It is the big famous park. The whole center is Etosha Pan which is a dry lake but it sometimes fills with water if the rains are good. They were not good this year so everything is very dry. Rache http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-786793.html Here are some more photos. I39m still not good at it so again two are the same. Two are in the school building courtyard one at my front door the fourth is three of my favorite girls by their hostel dorm. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-782707.html Hello all my friendsWe leave tomorrow for Windhoek. Exams are finished and what an experience The end of the year at Bartlett was nothing compared to this. So many forms so many meetings so nuts We finished Monday although the students left Friday. Then on Monday evening the principal tried to get us to agree to come back early. We are due the 19th learners the 20th and classes begin the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-782705.html And somehow trying not to be eaten by a hungry lion in the process or disturb the large group of elephants passing along our car Welcome to Etosha national park a jewel when it comes to wildlife diversity and abundance set in a middle of a quite atypical landscape. 20000 sq km in the center of which lies an immense salt desert the Etosha pan that gives the name to the park the great wh http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Etosha-National-Park/blog-782091.html Resumo USD300 para o tour diversas caronas 4 dias lugar lindo estou bem. Como comentei no ultimo post Namibia bem diferente do que eu imaginava. Acabei mudando os meus planos de voluntariar por 1 ms. No consegui encontrar um lugar que eu chamei de home. Assim resolvi somente fazer mais uma parada em um lugar mega turstico antes de eu ir a frica do Sul Sossusvlei Carto http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Sossusvlei/blog-782088.html Resumo Nambia muito diferente do que eu imaginava No encontrei algo que fosse a minha cara para trabalhar Perdi a Memria Estou bem. Ao cruzar a fronteira ZambiaNamibia percebi que tudo era bem diferente da Africa que eu estava acostumada a viajar. Desde Zimbabwe tudo mudou. Comeou a ficar mais caro as cidades eram maiores predios as pessoas falam bem ingles ..Cheguei em Windhoek http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Swakopmund/blog-780885.html Dear FriendsWe are now on the third day of exams and they go for another week. I have learned a lovely new word as a result. In Namibia one does not proctor exams one invigilates them. I invigilated history and ICT today. One does not get to invigilate one39s own exams. The exams end on the 16th. Learners leave on the 19th they wait for report cards and teachers on the 20th. However http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-780376.html Hello everyoneIt39s been more like two weeks I realize but what a two weeks Not necessarily good just exhausting. Mr. Lee39s wireless was out for a while so I had to use someone else39s computer that can take the cable in order to do anything. That was depressing. Then I just went in to a down period so I was reading a lot and not getting much done which led to a ton of papers http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-777524.html Here is my Top 10 Photo Locations from around the world. Some amazing places.Click on the link httpwww.jmwphotography.co.uktop10photolocations http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Sossusvlei/blog-777329.html Namibia is famous for the Namib Desert home to the highest sand dunes in the world however most of eastern and southern Namibia is covered by the Kalahari Desert. The Kalahari however can not be classified as a true desert due to the amount of rain it receives however very unpredictable. The landscape holds no surface water which creates an interesting ecological challenge for fauna and flora http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Kalahari/blog-775255.html I39m going to try a photoI think you have to click on photos. The first is the main street in Windhoek the second a classroom in Omugwelume where we practiced and the third a bug that lived in the sink in Omugwelume. Needless to say I used a different sink.I hope this worked. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-775235.html Hello AllI just discovered that my Feb. 20th blog had not been published as far as I could tell. I called it the exorcism. However it seemed some of you commented so I may have just put it up a second time. If so there are no changes and you don39t have to read it again.I think it has been longer than I thought since I blogged. It is now 7 12 weeks and still no refrigerator. I am going t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-775234.html 13 Tage Namibia pur wird bei www.jenmansafaris.com als eine Campingsafari mit Unterkunft im Zelt oder in einer festen Unterkunft wie Lodge angeboten. Um die Natur auch nachts zu spren haben wir die Campingvariante im Zelt gewhlt.Das hatte noch einen weiteren Vorteil im Zelt war es fast garantiert moskitofrei. Da in der festen Unterkunft nicht immer ein Moskitonetz vorhanden ist und man bei http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Etosha-National-Park/blog-773627.html Hello all my dear friendsIt is Thursday the 28th in the evening. Tomorrow is March already. Six weeks without a refrigerator but we did get paid I don39t know how much but the machine gave me the money I asked for. It was out of ink so not printing receipts.I have been having a busy week or so. First school. I have done two very fun lessons very cooperative learning. I get so jazzed when http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-773621.html Hello my dearsThat is a very Namibian greeting. Even the kids say it all the time. My dear have you done your homework Well my dears we must work harder. It39s is pretty pervasive once you start noticing. But it does make things slightly less harsh. A teacher can seemingly very angrily scold a student then say My dear what were you thinking And everyone smiles. It reminds me to http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-772224.html Hello EveryoneNow that I have access to Mr. Lee39s wireless I39m feeling reckless. Ours is all installed now but somehow not yet turned on or something. We39ll have to go to the school to use it however because the booster is way down on their list.Some bigwigs from Windhoek were here yesterday. About three or four of them have heard about our refrigerator but no one seems to actua http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-771519.html Hello again everyone Again I apologize for so long in between. It is now Feb. 12 and we still have no wireless. Again I am going to use the netman to post this. I posted one on Feb. 6th but Robin said nothing came up. I tried checking and it looked like it was there. Anyway today feels like a holiday because this morning all the teachers had to turn in their files. This is one of the m http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-771266.html Dear Friends I have not blogged since we arrived at this school Rukonga Vision School in Divundu because we got here to find that many of the supplies were not here yet including much of the furniture and all the computers and the wireless stuff. Still we have no more furniture only enough desks and chairs for the classes. Our flat has only what is built in and no refrigerator. We are suppose http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Rundu/blog-771263.html On the 7th of January we made our way to Sesriem campsite. The drive was long extremely hot and terribly bumpy. On arrival we were all so exhausted and drained from the heat we couldn39t be bothered to do anything. The pool however was welcomed with open arms. Sesriem is the gateway to Sossusvlei. Sossusvlei is a huge pan set amid towering red dunes that are out of this world. They are huge. T http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/blog-767987.html Our next stop was the border of Botswana and Namibia. Once we travelled across the border we then made our way to Rundu in Namibia where we stayed at Sarasunga camp site. The campsite sits right on the border of Angola and Namibia it was really pretty taking in the sunset here. A fence separated us from the wild hippos and crocs in the river. Many of us were excited for a pool except when we saw http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/blog-767889.html