Categories: Buchter News, Namibia
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: Buchter News, Namibia
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: Buchter News, Namibia
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 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 [...]
Categories: Buchter News, Namibia
Finally I have the feeling we are really getting somewhere with the Buchter. We found a new printer in Windhoek - who prints the national newspaper “The Namibian” - and I am very busy changing the whole look of the Buchter.
I honestly believe that finally we are making a newspaper which makes me feel proud [...]
Categories: Buchter News, Namibia
Ever since the Buchter News was founded in 1987 it has basically had the same setup. It looked more like a newsletter than it looked like a newspaper. We are about to change this. And it will happen this month!
What is changing? Well for starters we have found a new printer. A professional printer - [...]
Categories: Buchter News, Namibia
Today both Anna and I where at the creche. To are surprise we where greeted this morning by a - as we call it - kangaroo mouse. We call it this because of her little pouch and because of her (it might have been his, sorry Tiki if I got your gender wrong) amazing jumping [...]
Categories: Buchter News, Namibia
Namibia is advertised as “Namibia, land of sunshine, spaces and smiles”. Spaces & Smiles were already here - although the spaces are more obvious than the smiles I must say. But now with the summer setting in, I finally realize the sunshine bit.
Although It has not rained since we have got here. It has been [...]
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 [...]
Categories: Buchter News, Namibia
So what’s going on in my life? Well let’s start off with: everything happening happens on Africa time - which basically means I’m taking things slow.
Yesterday night we went to barrels - the German bar - for a couple of drinks in honour of the American Peace Corps volunteers who headed of the Mariental for [...]
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