Our Director had been informed last week that the head office sent thirteen computers for the administration division to the Region. Here they are – and our favorite brand. Unfortunately the guys at the government park in Windhoek didn’t think it through once more: no space, no power plugs let alone spare UPS units in …
A few weeks ago I had some friends of Adrian coming from Windhoek and heading to Opuwo staying at my place for a night. After a relaxing ‘braai’ we actually had planned to watch a movie. It didn’t work out. Thanks to my inattention we played our own ‘Emergency Room’ instead: I managed to bump …
Power plugs. The second time I have to bring up this popular topic. We had it quite often in the field (whether at schools or office buildings) that a job could not have been finished simply due to a missing power plug or extension cord. They are scare at all government premises I’ve visited so …
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You call a number in Germany and end up somewhere in a call center in India or Bulgaria – nothing fancy with a decent Internet access and some pieces of VOIP Open Source software. Now you call a Swiss number and end up at my house. Although the water pressure is often gone and snakes …
Diesmal scheint die hiesige staatliche Post über das Ziel hinausgeschossen zu sein: Nach nur zwei Wochen sind die ersten Exemplare der gedruckten Outapi Times Nr.2 in der Schweiz und Deutschland eingetroffen. Rekord-verdächtig. Am Monatsende (nach dem Zahltag der Regierungsangstellen) muss man vermutlich gleich lange am Post-Schalter warten um eine Sendung aufzugeben. Wie alles andere an …
Read more “Outapi Times, Issue Nr.2, February 2011 – print edition”
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”
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 …
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”
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. …