Angola - Pt 1

Phew! The first part of the Sunday school training/teaching manual (in English and in Oshindonga) is finally ready to be printed and used at the Sunday school teachers’ training seminar at the beginning of July! Thank you all for the prayer given to help me achieve this.
As I was writing down in Oshindonga the Lord’s prayer, I noticed that it said ‘Give us today our daily oshithima’ instead of ‘bread’. Oshifima is the stiff ‘polenta’ made with millet (mahangu) grown locally, and eaten daily.
Our 11 year old neighbour came over a couple of days ago, asking for help with homework. He wanted to know the names of the three main gases that make up air. I did not know and referred him to Étienne who was immediately able to name them. Etienne reads a lot and so learns a lot. But he is still learning! I was humorously reminded of this when he came across the word ‘hypothesis’ in his book. I asked him what it meant. ‘I remember Daddy telling me about this word,’ he said. ‘It means to make someone do what you want them to do and they don't even know it!’ (He had it confused with ‘hypnosis!’).
I have begun to put up a selection of David’s Angola photos. He is planning on writing an account so I don't want to steal his thunder, but will explain a bit about the pix you will see below.
The roads in Angola are atrocious (all except a tarred one to the coast which, as it is about the only place even vaguely attractive to tourists, is maintained.) The main tar North-South highway can be seen in the pic with the car; more potholes than tar. It took David and the two chaps with him, 15 hours to travel 300 kms. On one road it took an hour to cover 10 kms.
David went to Angola with Sebastian, David’s counterpart at NETS for the Central-Southern region, and a recently-graduated NETS student who is Angolan and who was able to help with interpretation etc (Celestino). Their aim was to meet with church leadership and show them the NETS correspondence courses.
There are 2 taxi photos, though you will not recognise them as such. The motorcyclists (this one unusual in that he has a helmet) collect passengers from the roadsides (who obviously have no helmets). The other is a sort of tricycle/rickshaw affair.
One shot shows the rear of a donkey cart, which is very heavily-laden.
Angola is apparently the 2nd most corrupt country in the world. Hardly any money finds its way into rebuilding the infrastructure after the devastations of war. The country only has electricity for 6 hours everyday. Folk who can afford one have a generator.
There are also some people shots.
One is of a woman singing in the Anglican church in Lubango.
The horse one is a classic. As the main road in many places is just one dirt road among many, a couple of chaps on horses galloped ahead of the NETS car to keep them on the right road!
As you can see, there is no thought of road safety and seeing people crowed onto the back of bakkies/utes is even MORE common than in Namibia.
The next shots will be more ‘view’ type photos.
We are just off to the local airport now to collect Beth. She has survived a mammoth trek from Melbourne to Ongwediva via Johannesburg and Windhoek!