It goes on forever and oh science, it's full of stars! (Anyone get that one, Bueller?) A summer storm approaches, swallowing up the night sky.
A false-color infrared image from our mahangu field. I took the liberty to add some color this photo while I'm waiting for my artistic license to arrive here in Namibia. However, if I hadn't taken this liberty you would just be staring at a black box, because our eyes can't see infrared light.
As for me, I'm doing quite well, or "oshi li nawa" as we say in Oshiwambo. Teaching seems to get easier each week. We're learning about Bohr diagrams in physical science and prime factoring in math. Which is all pretty enjoyable material to teach. Village life is still good, every night I eat supper with my family. Supper is very traditional, consisting of oshithima (porridge), osopa (soup/sauce), and onyama (meat). Last night, instead of meat, we had some delectable mushrooms that we picked from a termite mound! We eat the oshithima by taking a little in our hand, squishing it into a ball, and then dipping it in the soup.
4 comments:
What are Bohr diagrams?
Hey Greg- Just wanted to say thanks for keeping us all up on what your very interesting daily activities are like. Also I have a minor LOST spoiler that I would like to give you with your OK. It will probably make you really happy as far as LOST plot developments go.
@Daniel
In a time before Schröedinger and spherical harmonics, atoms had electrons with circular orbits. It was a simpler time, with simpler concepts. If you dig deep, all the way back to chem study at JMM, we drew these pictures based on the Bohr model of the atom.
How is grad school shopping? Also, how are the Feynman diagrams?
@Sam
As long as its minor, spoil me away! Eventually the DVDs will reach Namibia and I'll get caught up on Lost. What's up in Indy?
JIN IS ALIVE!!!!! Indianapolis is what you'd expect. About 10 degrees warmer than Madison, which is nice at times.
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