Independence Day and Waterberg Plateau

Namibia celebrated 29 years of independence on March 21. Our school had a great celebration with music, dancing, and poems from the diverse cultures that make up our student body. The school choir is made up of learners from all groups and they also sang several selections including the national anthem. I included a couple short videos to get a taste of the celebration.

A PCV from my group rewrote one of the verses from “This Land is Your Land” (by Woody Guthrie) using sites from Namibia. I taught the American first verse to all the classes and then we sang it with the Namibia words. They all enjoyed this very much.

Since Thursday and Friday were school holidays, I went camping with 8 other PCVs at the Waterberg Plateau National Park. We hiked to the top of the plateau one day, we went on shorter hikes and swam in the pool (a real luxury in Namibia), and on Saturday we went on a 4-hour game drive. Cape Buffalo, Black and White Rhinos, and other endangered species have been transferred to the top of the plateau for protection and in hopes of increasing their numbers. It is working. We were in awe of seeing White Rhinos, Cape Buffalo, Eland, Roan Antelope and many other kinds of antelopes and birds. It was a wonderful excursion despite the light rain that kept many of the animals from coming to the water holes.

All for now with all my love