I walked around Namibia and I saw…

three men lift the end of a truck so a fourth could see what he needed to fix.
a teacher lying in bed while a learner mopped her floor.
Che Guevera hats and t-shirts.
a few new kilometers of tar on the road for four consecutive weeks.
a wizened woman being pushed in a wheelbarrow by an adolescent boy.
a box that I had thrown away days before holding a chicken.
a drunken man rolling around in the dirt.
a gas station and a supermarket under construction.
a child picking through things in a trash pit.
a young woman say she wanted to know more about the “niggas” she sees in movies.
four KFCs.
no McDonald’s.
rusted up-side down chassis on the roadside.
four children passing around a bottle of alcohol.
a learner offer me a chicken for a photograph.
Obama sandals and sunglasses.
a teacher towing another teacher’s car.
new tables and turnstiles at the grocery store in town.
a beggar woman asking me for money to buy snuff.
a first grader holding her baby brother.
headstone stores.
South and Central American soap operas dubbed into English.
a white person almost hit a black person with his car and not care.
a man drop off an enormous sack of seeds at the home of relatives he had not seen recently.
a principal buying learners bread.
a man dancing by himself on the street to music coming from a store.
vuvuzelas.
children playing soccer with balled up socks.
living things sitting under trees.
stores owned by Chinese people.
a guy wearing a University of Dayton Flyers sweatshirt.
ATM security guards.
barbed wire fences.
women selling fried dough and fruit.
men selling pre-pay cell-phone minutes.
huge hanging hunks of meat for sale.
a group of friends playing volleyball in the evening.
church sermons being preached to audiences in fields.
Toyota trucks.
cars without seat-belts.
free condoms on offer in bathrooms and bars.
dogs that are not spayed or neutered.
learners washing their uniforms.
two boys walking with a box on their heads and holes to see through playing robot.

Pictures from Kyle’s Camera

Here are a few pictures that I snagged from my friend Kyle’s camera. It is a small assortment from term 1 and the long holiday. The pictures include one of me and Kyle in the back of a truck on our trip to Ruacana Falls (Post: Nature is Beautiful), Kristen and I snugly tucked into a truck bed (Kyle took the picture while crouching at our feet in a small niche, and we rotated these positions for approximately 5 hours), a hippo and an elephant in the Chobe River, me jumping off of a bridge, our holiday crew’s “Family Christmas Photo” at the Great Zimbabwe Ruins, Mocambiquan fishermen, and the stunning sunset from our campsite at Ponta Barra.

The link again is:

http://picasaweb.google.com/104184428031129256317