July 7, 2010

More Miscellaneous

The President travels in a helicopter.
Harry Potter books are friggin’ great.
Learners protested against the soccer coach by writing on a large chart paper and pasting it to the administration block.
I saw a learner wearing only a left-hand glove.
Then I saw her friend wearing a right-hand glove.
Then I saw that lots of learners share gloves.
When I walk to the trash hole to dispose of computer boxes, learners take all the boxes from me.
I have no idea what they use them for.
A construction company pledged to pave 50km of the road to my village this calendar year.
As of today they have paved about 5.
Are you all hearing the “Just like a Waving Flag” World Cup song over, and over, and over again?
Porridge is really, really, really, really, easy to make.
I am awesome at making porridge.
When a machine is not functioning properly, it is referred to as “tired”.
There is no one word in Oshiwambo for “promise”.
I watched at least 50 learners climb the sides and back of a cattle truck before they departed for a sports tournament.
Pap, the stuff that the USAID provides for malnourished children, is an acquired taste.
I love pap (the version sold in stores, I’m not taking it from needy kids).
When I saw a table at the grocery store with three white people, I knew immediately the summer volunteers had arrived.
5 power outages in an hour make it much more difficult to maintain discipline in the library.
Roosters crow at all hours of the day and night.
Watching a Namibian 12th Grader eat up Junie B. Jones makes me smile.

1 comment:

  1. your next update better include a brief, but detailed, history of mekhi pfeiffer's glorious movie career

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