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Kim's Namtastic Adventures: March 2012
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Thursday, March 15, 2012. Water's receding, school grinds on. Nothing interesting to blog about, but I've added two new pages LIBRARY and CAMP GLOW for your reading pleasure. And, of course, a new post wouldn't be complete without a picture of my favourite little Namibian making a sandcastle. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). And just a friendly reminder: international mail requires more postage than US mail. I think the rate rate now is around $1). Outapi, Omusati, Namibia. View my complete profile.
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Kim's Namtastic Adventures: Library
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When I arrived in Omahila, the school’s “library” was no more than few hundred books packed away in boxes. Since then, I’ve worked with the school’s teachers and principal to transform the library into a functioning entity. With the help of book and financial donations from my parents and St. John the Baptist School, the number of books in the library has grown to over 1,000. Onesmus looks for a book to check out. The library shares space with maize meal bags and a number of other people and activities.
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34 Bags of Cement… | Stories of an OngweDIVA
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Stories of an OngweDIVA. Anna Lenhart's Fulbright research on waste management in Namibia. 34 Bags of Cement…. 1,500 bricks and 25 days later, the construction of the Enguwantale Combined School biogas digester is complete (except for the stove, which is unfortunately being imported from China). Below is a picture of the entire system(cow dung, inlet, digester (dome), outlet (zinc cover), compost pit and piping) and the construction team. This week is my last week in Ongwediva (CRAZY! Fill in your detail...
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Biogas Construction Progress Part 1 | Stories of an OngweDIVA
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Stories of an OngweDIVA. Anna Lenhart's Fulbright research on waste management in Namibia. Biogas Construction Progress Part 1. It only took us one day to dig because some of the students helped. Students from UNAM came to help lay reinforcements for the cement foundation. We are blessed to have a skilled brick layer in the community, the masonry work came out great! I made some mistakes concerning the use of sand in the concrete, so we added a brick floor. By namibiawasteproject on June 16, 2012. Join 1...
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Welcome to Enguwantale | Stories of an OngweDIVA
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Stories of an OngweDIVA. Anna Lenhart's Fulbright research on waste management in Namibia. This week I moved to Enguwantale, a village 40Km away, where I am partnering with a Peace Corps volunteer, to construct a biogas digester at the school. I am fortunate to be staying at a local homestead, which is a maze of concrete huts/rooms on fields of mahangu. Grain). I sleep in a tent under a canopy beside the water tank. And all is well. By namibiawasteproject on June 10, 2012. Posted in Life in Namibia.
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Kim's Namtastic Adventures: It's Not a Shortcut Unless You Know Where You're Going
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012. It's Not a Shortcut Unless You Know Where You're Going. In Namibia, there are three school holidays – four weeks in April/May, one week in August and 6 weeks in December/January. Most of the time, PCVs use these breaks as an opportunity to travel around Namibia and southern Africa; Swakopmund (on the coast), Cape Town, Victoria Falls, Malawi and Mozambique are all popular destinations. Quite a non-traditional holiday, but it sounded like an interesting adventure so I was game.
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Kim's Namtastic Adventures: November 2011
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Thursday, November 24, 2011. Although overnight temperatures in the upper 80s usually don’t signify Thanksgiving, the holiday hasn’t passed by unnoticed. School-wise, we’re in the home stretch – only 2.5 weeks until the year is over. Due to this, and the fact that I’m belatedly attempting to save for vacation, I decided to stay put this Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s my top 5:. 8211; There’s nothing like a. To make you feel at home in a foreign land. I’ve learned so much. Yesterday I was feeling especially.
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Kim's Namtastic Adventures: A final reflection
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Sunday, October 28, 2012. It’s been nearly three weeks since I’ve left Namibia and only now has my body and brain reached the correct balance of relaxation and deep thought in order to reflect on the changes I’ve seen in the last 60 days. It took a three hour bus ride to find that sweet spot, and I’m afraid the halcyon moment may be fleeting so I’m going to write while the thoughts are flowing. The answer is not simple, nor can I say I “learned a lot.”. Being a celebrity sucks. If you can handle all the ...
