I hear a lot of people talking about problems with life here and the economy and unemployment and I understand that things are hard on a lot of people these days both because of their own doing as well as simple bad luck. But I also think that it is important to always keep a [...]
Posts under ‘Africa’
PCV Murdered in Benin
Seems that a PCV from the Atlanta area who was working in Benin was murdered outside of her home. Details are sparse at the moment as to what happened. Sadly the only suprising thing to me is that this doesnt happen more often especially when I think about how many of my friends in Namibia [...]
This is the End
So I am sitting here on my last night in Gobabis listening to the Georgia game and it isnt going all that well, but really my thoughts are not so much in Athens tonight. Leaving here after two years is a bittersweet moment. On the one hand I am more than ready to get out [...]
Infinite Unending Sadness aka The DRC
Not sure what level of coverage the crisis in the Congo is getting back in the states but I am sure that it isnt much. Basically the country went to war in 1997 and it hasnt stopped since, at least in parts of the country. Formal accords were signed in 2003 “ending” a conflict that [...]
EIP Trust Update
Some new pictures from the Early Intervention Program Trust are up over at Picasa. The EIP Trust for those of you who dont know is a project that seeks to break the cycle of poverty that traps many kids forced to live on the streets and beg to survive here in Gobabis. Most of the [...]
PCVs in Windhoek
Over the past couple of weeks I spent a pretty significant time in the capital getting some of the final checks finished before I head home (countdown is 34 days left in Namibia, 53 until Im back in the USA). Last weekend especially there were a lot of PCVs in town for various reasons and [...]
RAIN!
Sorry for the lack of updates over the past few weeks. I have a good bit of stuff that I will be getting up here as soon as I can, but the internet at work is down and that limits me to not uploading pictures at the moment and a lot of what I want [...]
Clouds!
Yesterday saw the return of real clouds for the first time in about six months. mind you these are not yet rain clouds but the cover was nice and they at least give the promise of rain sometime in the not so distant future. Of course the rains wont really start until I am back [...]
Why I Wont Miss Namibian Meetings
One of the most frustrating aspects of life in Namibia, especially working for the government, is the over formalization of so many things. The worst part of this happens during meetings. Every meeting it seems needs to have an extremely formal structure with a reading of the previous meetings minutes, adoption of those minutes and [...]
26/m who tore that horn off a live water buffalo on a backpacking trip while I was stationed in Namibia saving children infected with HIV/AIDS.
