Categories: Holiday
Finally a complete summary of my Christmas holiday. I’m sorry it took so long. A combination of finishing the new Buchter in a hurry & living on Africa time I guess!
It started off with us hitch-hiking to Windhoek. With us I mean Anna, Paddy (one of the peace-corps volunteers here in Lüderitz), Lily (another peace-corps [...]
On the 23rd we arrived cape town, and immediately met up with some of the other project trust volunteers. Christmas eve we all went out for a meal and me and steve (volunteer in Aranos, Namibia) went to bed earlie as the others went to the mid-night mass at the church.
The 25th we spent in [...]
Just a small holiday update this time. After Swakop me and Anna took the night train back to WIndhoek since previous experiences with mini-vans weren’t very good. We decided to hitch up to Etosha immediately after arrival in Windhoek and - to our surprise - made it there the same day.
Etosha was a rather disappointing [...]
Most of you will know by now that we - Anna & me - are on holiday. After renting a car, the hitchhiking proved to be a fruitless effort, we arrived in Windhoek at about 9 p.m. The great benefit of renting a car was that we still had a car in Windhoek until the [...]
It started of Friday the 3rd of October. After helping out at Brightstart, moving the lower-elementary to the upper-elementary class and vice versa, we left at 1 p.m. towards the Kubul farm in Aus.
The drive took us about an hour and a half. An hour and a half. Not so long you might think… well [...]
I’m back from an exhausting but unbelievably fun week of veld school. I’ve been camping, hunting, abseiling and hiking. So much that I haven’t found the time yet to put it all in one story, so I’ll start off with the general idea of veld school.
The veld school I went to was a farm owned [...]
Categories: Buchter News, Holiday, Namibia
Today I was called by Brightstart - the local montessori school - asking me to join them on a farmer/adventure camp next Friday. Of course I have to grab this great opportunity to leave the little town of Lüderitz behind for a while and so I replied yes.
So next Friday I’ll travel to Aus (about [...]
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