Came back yesterday afternoon from a three week vacation: first week the whole family Neuhoff, the other two weeks the brothers traveling. Plenty of pictures, only a few words this time as already busy back in the office. Visiting Namibia means sitting in the car for quite a while. After finishing up paperwork of the …
Till two weeks ago the North has received steady rain and water coming from Angola since the beginning of the rainy season a couple of months ago. The outcome had even been worse than the flooding from 2008, officials are speaking of the ‘heaviest floods ever recorded’: thousands of people had to be evacuated and …
Since the end of January I am living in my new house at Anamulenge, 4km outside of Outapi, on the premises of the Cheshire Home, a home for disabled children, and the hostel for the Canisianum RCHS private school. Besides that school the catholic church and mission can also be found at Anamulenge. As there …
Read more “First things comes second: new alarm system at Anamulenge”
The ministerial GRN stamp follows you everywhere, also to the restrooms where it nicely decorates the toilet paper. We wouldn’t let some of the staff take some of those valuable government items home, would we (some of them really do – luckily our cleaners are always on alert). Of course also new IT equipment get …
All right, all right. I had become lazy during the last months. Time to put the New Year’s eve resolutions to be a more active on the blog into practice. Although there is plenty to catch up with – some up to date news from the region – and the prove that Ben is still …
Last time my backpack and me were the target. Monday morning it was my car which got the attention of some bad guy/s. I parked it only a couple of meters away from Leonora’s at the GAME shopping complex to get a urgently needed hair cut there. At 09:00 not a lot was going on, …
Read more “lessons learned 2: don’t take chances in Oshakati”
For this post and the linked PDF a translator or at least a German-English dictionary is highly recommended… Nein, kein grober Schnitzer der Redaktion: Die Juni Ausgabe (=Erstausgabe) der gedruckten OutapiTimes hat es anscheinend gerade noch so dieses Jahr zu den ‘Abonnenten’ nach Europa geschafft. Nicht nur der Regierungsapparat arbeitet oftmals im Schneckentempo – auch …
Read more “Outapi Times, Issue Nr.1, June 2010 – print edition”
From time to time also our ICT department has a relaxed time: on the 19th of October we attended the workshop/introduction of the new school management software ‘SchoolLink‘ in Ongwediva. Although the idea of having such an standardized and centralized system is convincing I doubt that the system will come operational in January. As most …
Read more “lunch break stories: SchoolLink and the land of the workshops”
The ‘Telecom Namibia ICT Summit 2010’, the biggest event for the country’s ICT industry, took place from the 7th to the 8th. Thanks to our Director who officially approved the trip we were able to spent some interesting and intense days in Windhoek – on government expense of course. Summits in Africa seems not to …
Up since 5.30, only a banana and java for breakfast when driving straight to work from Ongwediva – quite a bit hungry. What’s gonna be for lunch in a few? Most likely a small restaurant called ‘GOMA food service’ which is hidden behind the Open Market and just five minutes from the Ministry on food. …