More Pictures

Oshikunde:

When the water is running, we get it from those taps.
The tents are where the learners live. They don’t do diddly squat keeping the rain out.
When the water is not running, we get it from the gutters and from that watering hole.
The tub is filled with a lot of fish. The learners are fed three times a day by unpaid members of the village who arrive at school several hours before sunrise and cook all day. Every time I see them I say, “Tangi, tangi, tangi, tangi, unene”.
Learners will turn absolutely anything into a ball and kick it. In this picture they have tied a bunch of plastic bags together. Game on!
The picture with the learner standing on a desk was taken at the Miss Valentines Day Pageant. The event lasted for approximately eight hours and finished at 3am.
The man in the pink shirt is the honorable Waardheim Shapaka, my principal. He has proven to be quite a remarkable human being.
(Side note: short ties are all the rage in Namibia. I LOVE IT.)
The guy in the green is the Head of the Language Department, Vilo Shitataala. You may recognize his name from previous posts as the person who did such crucial things for me as bring light into my room. He is the man.
The lady sitting on her car is my next door neighbor, the wonderful Meme Antindi. If I’m not careful I may slowly fall in love with her.

Ruacana Falls:

The two white people climbing over rocks are Julia and Kyle.
The guy relaxing on a rock is “Pa”, one of Kyle’s colleagues. He said the words “nature” and “beautiful” numerous times.