Namibia Part 5

Getting in shape!

After spending about 2,5 weeks in Namibia without sports, I’ve started running again and working out a little. I really started missing it so I figured it was time for a run around Gobabis. An extra motivation for me is  that I was curious what I would come across while doing this. On my second run a construction worker that was on his break and sat beside the road with some of his collegues started running with me. We talked while running about what I was doing here et cetera. After five minutes of running and talking he wished me goodluck and went back to where he came from. A nice moment!

Another motivation for me here is that running is different here because of the altitude level. Gobabis is situated at an altitude of 1500 meters. Quite nice because Holland is situated below sea level. On higher grounds your fatigue drains quicker.

However, I’m not the only thing getting in shape. You see, our scenario is working out to become pretty great! For my opinion there still are too many interviews in it (too many ‘talking heads’ should be minimalized as much as possible, in my opinion..), but we’re getting further and further each day! The main story is getting clearer with every passing day. Things are starting to roll!

Some of the subjects/elements we might include in our film are:

• a brief introduction & history of Gobabis
• the twinning between the municipality of Gobabis & Smallingerland
• project Sida Sores
• a quick overview of all the projects
• HIV/AIDS project
• I&I Explorers
• the sanitation project
• the slums of Epako
• future tourist attractions of Gobabis & around

I’m not going to explain all these projects. The people that have to know, will allready know about them because these projects have been (more or less) up and running for quite some years now. For all the people that don’t know about it yet.. They’ll just have to wait a little longer (or they can just google them)!

I also added some new pictures from Gobabis & the slums of Epako below.