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Categories: Buchter News, Namibia

Towards the end

With only little over three weeks to go before I am flying out of Windhoek back to Amsterdam, my year here is coming to an end. I can’t believe it has been almost a year already, time seems to have passed by so fast! But looking back on my time here, I feel like we [...]

Categories: Blog, Buchter News, Namibia

When in Rome …

When in Rome do as the Romans. With that thought in mind I went to the Valambola Kindergarden on my free day to get my hair braided. It took about 3 hours and it is quite painfull process, it is still painfull, but hopefully it will be better tomorrow.
Here’s the picture:

Almost forgot to mention, although [...]

Categories: Buchter News, Namibia

What’s been going on?

It has been way too long since the last post, so here is an overview of what has been going on.
First a little update about the projects I am currently working on:
The Valombola Kindergarden

With the kindergarden things are going much better than last year. We have started teaching phonetics & the children are really starting [...]

Categories: Blog, Namibia

Skies Break Open

Skies Break Open, originally uploaded by Hidde Stokvis.
Yesterday evening we had such a beautiful moon and I couldn’t not show it to you. So here is a very short post with the picture of it.
More blogs will follow this week, since I haven’t been posting to much and I feel like I should keep [...]

Categories: Holiday, Namibia

cape town!

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 [...]

Categories: Holiday, Namibia

small holiday update

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 [...]

Categories: Holiday, Namibia

On Holiday

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 [...]

Categories: Namibia

The promised pictures!

A small update this time. I’ve finally uploaded the pictures of the printers in Windhoek - sorry for the delay. You can find them on the picture page. Here is an example:

Today we had a “thanks giving” lunch in our flat with paddy (the American peace corps volunteer) and Liz ( our co-host). I made [...]

Categories: Buchter News, Namibia

Printers In Windhoek

I have just been to the printers in Windhoek - I’m actually still in Windhoek now - and we have just witnessed the new Buchter getting born. I must say that I’m quite pleased with it, although not all the colours etc. where quite right yet.
I’ll upload some pictures of the whole printing process tomorrow [...]

Categories: Buchter News, Namibia

The Buchter As It Should Be

The new Buchter News is now almost finished. All I have to do is quickly check all the pages for unseen errors and than it’s finally done. Tomorrow I’ll travel to Windhoek to deliver the Buchter to the new printers myself. It’s going to be an exciting trip!
Exciting because of the new printers. Exciting because [...]

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