Up or Down It's Up to You!

The first term has now ended safe and sound. I can proudly say that most of my learners passed this term. So I got that going for me, which is nice. I also got some full grown mahangu, which is also nice. It's almost time to harvest, unfortunately I won't be able stick around for that. I'll be heading to the capitol city, Windhoek, on Sunday for what Peace Corps calls reconnect. Although I feel it's more of a disconnect. I have to leave the village and stay in the big city for two weeks. I don't know what I'll do without my green buckets, maybe I'll just have to take them along.

Here have some mahangu. You can cut the top of the plant off, pound it for thirty minutes with a wooden post in a wooden bowl, don't forget to mix in the sand (it's the other other white grain), throw it in a pot on an open fire, toss in some water, and stir until your arms fall off. Then you can eat some wonderful oshithima. Leave the utensils in the drawer, the only one you need is your right hand. But make sure to not start cooking until the sun goes down, it's just too damn hot to cook during the day. After you stuff yourself like a balloon, waddle back to your room and try to read a book before falling asleep.

One day during the term, the geography teacher decided it would be a good idea to have all the grade eights watch an educational movie. So the library was packed wall to wall with learners. Some learners just decided to play on the computers. I had to bust out the camera before they all left.