Namibia first edition

Hello to all from Namibia, we have settled in now to the normal busy schedule here at the village and of course love it especially the time we get to spend with the kids as they do look for it always.
We were set to work on the 3 hour drive from Livingstone airport in Zambia to the village as after an hour he just pulled over to the side if the road, said he needed my help then hopped out of the car and walked around to my side of the vehicle and said he was tired and asked if I could drive as he had got up early that morning This was after we had traveled 36 hours and I said we had not even gone to bed but I managed it somehow.

Marg has been doing her usual running around after all of the kids, doing the cooking for 7 people every night and patching the kids and staff clothes amongst many other things. She has not stopped from 6.30 till 7 at night and many hospital trips with different kids which have to start by leaving home at 6am so that you get close to the front of the que but you still never finish until after 1pm and many days she has been there until 3.
The kids guardian had to organize birth certificates one day, she left home at 5am and we picked her up at 2pm after she had very little success.

The kids had an athletics carnival one Saturday in 34degrees heat, our local soccer star came second in the 5000metres which he ran on bitumen barefoot then next day played 2 ninety minute games of soccer. Our kids did well with 4 individuals winning, one boy ( Goti) won his 1500 and 100metre and Lisetti won the 100, 200 and 400.

I have been teaching the boys and one girl how to fish and Mawinda caught the first tiger fish and he was really thrilled so the next day about 20 kids turned up to either watch or have a go. They are a fish with about 12 razor sharp teeth around the front of their mouth so you need a wire trace to catch them and they do put up a good fight as they are lightning fast swimmers and jump out of the water a couple of times when you are reeling them in. They are the prized fish in a lot of southern Africa.

We have had heaps of rain and the river is still rising about 4-6 inches a day and if it continues for another 4-5 days we will be evacuating all of the kids and leave a skeleton staff here for security and support them with our floodboat. They have a patch of land available with 6 foot high grass on it and nothing else so we will have to bring in everything to support the kids,going to be an interesting time if we do have to leave.

Well that is most of the news up till now, this is a test of the blog site as well so we will write more next time. Hope everyone is doing well back home.