We really do like it here and find almost every day to be an adventure of some sort. Here you can see us getting ‘up close and personal’ to one of the locals!
When we went to Amalia’s village, there was so much to experience. Just trying to imagine living without electricity and a toilet was hard. Here you can see us inside the ‘kitchen house’, and standing outside it.
The children can be seen exploring the granary, used to store the millet and sorghum.
We don’t want you to think that everywhere is so basic. Oshakati is quite a large town and has a huge market – though not the sort of market you maybe used to! Lots of roadside vendors. Cattle and goats all over. But there are two supermarkets there (Pick ‘n’ Pay, Shoprite), with contents similar to a rural IGA. There are also other types of shops - as with any town, the type of shops reflects the shopping needs of the people.
There are no book shops etc as people are not really readers. We have found a small public library so that is bonus. We have a pharmacy and a small stationary shop, furniture shops and a fruit and veg shop. The meat is often not the quality of cut we are used to but, in Oshakati, you can usually find something suitable. Caris wanted me to buy cow tongue the other day. Étienne was dead set against the idea!
There are some clothes shops, PEP etc, and also a placed called Game which is like K-mart, but without the clothes.
We cannot find certain small things (like nutella or textas that don’t run out after the 2nd use!) but there are all the things we need and many things we want. We feel very grateful. When I was here 10 years ago there was not even half the things available that there are now.
If anyone can tell me what causes the sky to look like this some evenings I would be very interested. It is marvellous to see.
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