A Friday Night Game

June 14, 2013

On my first Friday night I decided to take in a soccer game!  The local school where the church's children all go is G K Wahll Combined School (elementary and middle school to 10th grade).  They played the school from Otjiwarango.

Things got pretty dusty and the field got pretty hot. I learned about bringing an umbrella and standing on the side of the field with my back to the sun (afterwards of course).

In spite of the fans cheering them on (and in spite of my lack of knowledge of soccer I was able to figure out) that we were overmatched and lost 4-1.  Better luck next time!

Construction Day 5

June 14, 2013

The construction continues on the Outdoor Ministry building. 

I am amazed at what they can do -all by hand except the original delivery of materials.  

 Hauling the water and cement and mixing and delivering it by hand in the Namibian heat.  The decision was made to add on space to the original building and expand it.  The space being added will be for the originally planned 8 bathrooms/showers- 4 each for men and women (you can barely see the added foundation in the foreground- right/white)

Same day same laundry new beginnings

 Hi All!  A very delayed post from the same laundry day.  While things were in the dry cycle, and after I took the pictures of the house (last post) I went on a walk to meet the newest neighbors.  Auntie Lokkie's dog Liefe (love) has four puppies!  (And the father of the puppies has 3 litters right now- he is quite the romancer in town- all three females had four health puppies.) Here they are so you can see how little they were at one week.

Liefe wants to know where they have gotten to- where we have taken them!

She is quite the good and protective momma.

Then Sharifa came back to the house and helped me with the folding of socks- always a big job.


And we watched the sun set out the door of the porch together- a good end to laundry day.

A walk around the house

For those of you who wondered, that last post about doing laundry for the first time was actually  from June 13!

I opened some suitcases and got out some things from home to make home home.
My mom's quilt looks nice on the bed.

I put the scarves I have collected and prayer shawl on the chairs and couch to add some color- one made by my friend Naz, one from Hawaii, one bought in Cleveland with my sisters-of-the-traveling- scarves, Judy and Loren, the prayer shawl I received from the San Bernardino church when I was laid off by the Conference, one from my grandmother, one from Palestine and one from my Aunt Georgia

Things for my home altar- a dancing people menorrah, Krishna prayer beads from when I visited my friend Ramborhu's ashram, a rosary, a scarf from Spain, my God is Still Speaking chalice and plate and candle from Gail, pictures of some of my favorite people, the travel clock my mom gave me with all the time zones, a Japanese fan and a fan given to me by a woman in Garamatale when I preached there and she saw me sweating it out!  Below are my UCC Book of Worship and the UCCSA hymnal and mission statement book.

The kitchen with a table added for a temporary desk until I can get an office set up.

The view from the desk is pretty nice!

Right out the door is a nice place to plant a garden don't you think?  You can see Auntie Lokkie's house in the distance.

And here is the front yard out the side door - can't wait for the summer when everything is full and the trees will give nice shade.

Looking from the front trees to the back side yard.

And here is the side porch.  Looking in to the kitchen you can see the yellow table cloth on the desk.  I am still working on the guest room and the office but stay tuned...  For those of you following these picx,  sorry it is taking so long!  It took literally two hours today to down load the two blogs I posted.  The internet connection was very slow today.

First Laundry Day

So today I did real laundry for the first time since I left the United States in January (washing things out every day in the bathroom sink or while you are showering and hanging them in the bathroom doesn't count.)  A whole bunch of laundry it turns out- or at least it felt that way!!.  I went out the front door thinking I would be near the bathtub for water.  Then realized I would be further from the line in the yard.  Oh well.  This was after all the first time.  Hauling water from the bathtub and washing by hand sitting on the step looking out at the beautiful day was an adventure. 

The wash cycle.

The rinse cycle.

 

 The dry cycle.

The tree that benefited from the water instead of sending it down the drain.  (It said THANK YOU!!  After all it is a drought here, and this is the dry winter season too!)

A benefit I didn't think of... the red mud cycle.  :)

And what/where do go with a 3 year $90,000 seminary education?  Namibia to do laundry!  :)