Blogs from Rundu, Namibia, Africa - page 2

Hello, Everyone, Thank you so much for all the comments. I love getting little messages. It feels like college when the mail came and I would actually get a letter! I have a couple of fun things to tell you, but mostly we are busy planning, teaching and marking. They were right when they told us third term would be the shortest. We started teaching the 3rd and already it is the 19th. It is kind of like after spring break at Bartlett, we just zoomed to the end. Anyway, my co-teacher Lucia goes on maternity leave next week. Next Thursday is her last day. I haven't actually been told yet, but I'm going to be teaching my favorite 11th grade class, my 8th grade, and it has been jokingly suggested I take over her "Religious ... read more

Dear Friends, It is Saturday, the 31st of August. I am not sure why, because usually I am really depressed toward the end of vacations, but I feel really good today. The kids come back on various busses from various distances on Monday, and classes start Tuesday. I think that I was worried about vacationing by myself, but it turns out that I needn't have. I went to Windhoek the first week (holiday started the 18th of August). Rode there with a friends. I think I got that far in the last blog. Anyway, as I was leaving the B&B to go to Backpackers, I asked the woman if she knew a good hairdresser who could cut my hair. She recommended hers, just around the corner with her shop in her house, and made me an ... read more

Hello, Everyone, The President actually came, so now it is all over. What a relief. Nothing went as we planned, but apparently the President was quite taken with a beating heart on the SMART board, so was entirely happy with the school and his visit. For a brief week or two the people in Windhoek love us. We were the BIG story on the news that night which we all gathered to watch. I was on Namibian television! Really, me. As it turned out, people came from Windhoek about three days before and took over the preparations. We were decorated, tents were set up, new furniture, enough chemicals and bones and things to make Potemkin labs. So I don't know if the President knows that we actually do not have anything for any sort of science ... read more

Hello, All, It has been awhile, but a busy while! I never actually finished our trip, but I have something more recent first. This past Saturday I went to Rundu by myself! I had called the kombi driver and arranged to be picked up at 6:00 a.m. Had breakfast and a coffee milkshake in my favorite little cafe, bought some flannel pajamas and went to Edumeds (the teacher store), where I found a copy of Cry, the Beloved Country. No one here seems to know it, and I think they should. Anyway, our LRC (Learners Representative Council, much like our student council) had been taken to a leadership workshop on Friday and were coming home Saturday. Before they left, I arranged with the driver to catch a ride home with them. In Rundu things close on ... read more

Here are some more photos. I'm 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).... read more