lunch break stories: how advertising should always be

Male chauvinism might could come trough at first sight. I refer Outapi as the ‘place to work’. Some local businessman is obviously ahead of times and refers to it already as the famous ‘place to be’ on shirts he is selling obviously quite well in town. Literally, on top of this slogan he put outapi.com …

lunch break stories: the swimming pool is back again

During the last two nights Outapi received quite some heavy showers. I’ve been talking to people and everyone says that it is quite unusual to have such intense rain during the ‘small rainy’ season. Hopefully the thing stops soon otherwise we will have a tough next year: as mentioned in one of the previous posts …

Happy 260k Raider!

On the way back from Oshakati Saturday night I realized that the Hilux’s odometer reached 260’000km. Would have been time to celebrate. Neither the vehicle nor the driver are drinking alcohol. Therefore we skipped the party at night. Instead the Hilux got a special treat Sunday evening from me: five liter of Toyota’s finest 75w-90 …

Alex’s mother’s 86th birthday party

Last Saturday afternoon I had been invited to Alex’s (my former neighbor from ‘Bangladesh’) mother’s 86th birthday party in their village 20km North-West of Outapi. Fun till the late evening. And no, the party had not been sponsored by beverage manufacturers as some of the photos might suggest;-).