Back from Eiseb & Gam For a small week we have been living in the bush amongst wild animals such as jackals, black mumbas, scorpions, spiders, cheetas and leopards. Luckely it’s not summer yet in Namibia so most animals are still pretty far away from most settlements and villages and vast asleep. However, our trip [...]
On Earth Gabriella Zoricic and Donata Weinbach , two vollenteers who work at Save The Children Pre-School, organized a puppet show for the children. The children made the puppets out of anything they could find and they wrote a story that they performed in front of an audience with the puppets. Many people were invited [...]
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1 Aug 2010After sunset with a baseball bat The only downside for me personally in Namibia is safety. You can’t go out at night on foot for too far or too long. For example: Whenever I want to use the internet at the Goba lodge, it’s a little over 1km walk from Horizons (the place we are [...]
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. [...]
The Harnas Wild Life Foundation A few days before Albert and the others went back home, we went to the Harnas Wildlife Foundation. It’s about an hour and a half drive away from Gobabis. Harnas is a wildlife park where you can go on a safari trip by 4wd and on foot and watch lions, [...]
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20 Jul 2010Life in the slums of Epako The first few times that we went into the slums of Gobabis, Epako was with Judith and I was not as shocked as I thought I would be. Maybe this was because in the South East of Turkey I had seen comparable living situations, or maybe it was because [...]
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20 Jul 2010welcome to Africa! So here we are, Namibia! Departed from Holland with Albert Scheffer, his daughter Judith Scheffer, and Albert his collegues Thea Seinen, Date de Vries and and my fellow grad student Jelmer de Jong we drove for 6 hours to Europes largest airport which is placed in Frankfurt, Germany. From there we took [...]
On the second of july 2010 I’ll be flying with fellow CMD student Jelmer de Jong towards the second least densely populated country in the world which also happens to be one of the driest continents on the planet. This country is positioned above South Africa and is called Namibia. Personal Reason We were asked [...]
On december the 29th I flew back to The Netherlands from Lisbon, Portugal. My internship at CheckTheGate had come to an end. After very nice goodbyes with both company CheckTheGate and other people that I’ve met over the past 4 months that I was there, I was packed and ready to go back home to [...]