WHAT DO YOU DO- STUCK AT A GAS-STATION IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?

Yes, that was us. Came to Otjiwarongo at 3 o’clock in the night, and had nowhere to stay. So… we decided to hang out right there.. 5 hours at a gas-station in the middle of the night.. what do you do?

I’ll tell you: We had a deck of card.. the deck of card was actually our crazy Canadian friend Raviv’s.. and of course, being Raviv’s deck of cards the image on the cards were.. nothing but half-naked ladies!!

When we had nothing else to do, we decided to categorize the ladies. We had 6 categories.
1.Celeberties (ex. Britney Spears, Claudia Shiffer, Christina Aguliera ++)
2. Best looking! (those we all agreed upon)
3. Good looking (those we did NOT agree upon.. seriously Jonatan- one of your “best looking” should have been in the horse-category!!)
4. The Horse-category (eighter they were riding a horse, looked like they were riding a horse or simply: looked like a horse!)
5. Worst looking category and
6. Boring girls. (Those we didn’t even bother look at twice.)

So as you can see.. you don’t have more fun then what you create on your own. HA HA.
(I’ll come back with kamanjab.. where we got stuck for a whole day…)

Wonderful MAY-holydays

Long time. I’ll try to make it short. I’ve been on vacation with my friends for three weeks. A lot of travelling, but it was totally worth it!!! We met up with some of the other Norwegian volunteers in Zambia and we had an amazing time together!!After returning to Namibia we took a round-trip here for a few days, to see some of the other well-known communities. Like opowo, Oshakati and the less known and very different Khorixas.
WE, are in this case: JONATAN, TERJE AND ME. (Madeleine is part of WE in Zambia!)

I could go on forever I guess.. but I wont. I know travelling-letters are boring for everyone except from those who were there…I picked out only a few picks… All of them taken with Jonatans Fancy camera. I had 3 weeks of holydays without my camera.. again. IT WAS GREAT.
I have loads of beautiful pictures of cute kids in the African Suroundings.. but I’ll leave it up to my Swedish friend to put these out on his homepage… www.jonatanrosengren.blogspot.com I really recomand this page… there’s a lot of great photos!

My travellin-mates

Ok.. Jonatan looks crazy. But he’s actually nice,,, :)
Terje- is a volunteer in Namibia with me, and he’s growing beird because of lack of racer-blades and because it’s a cooler and a more grown-up image! I LIKE IT!Madeleine is the lost sibling in the Namibia-family. She was placed in South Africa instead.. but we still keep her close to our hearts. Laila on the other hand is not lost in any ways.. she’s hanging in there like no-one. She’ve had Malaria TWIZE. One worse than the other.. She’ve had diarea most of the year, but is still going strong.. LAILA with the nickname: Slow-poison. (for a reason) Anders is not on the picture. But I’ll describe him: Tall, dark, muscular, with a glimt in his eye. Trynefaktor: 7,5 (DET er da virkelig ikkje ille Anders?!)

Victoria falls-- photosession

Madeleines first reaction when she saw our..yellow friends was: “I want a picture with the yellow people!" And there it is. Exctended SCORE-family!! I'm sorry we missed out on the falls... they are there in the back... they just don't show on my pictures!! hehe... Jonatan will definately put out some GREAT pictures of the falls... So be patient...

VICTORIA FALLS---- BUNGIE JUMPING

I had decided NOT to jump. 111m.. jumping out from a bridge is stupidity if you ask me!! On the other hand.. haven’t we all had that feeling when we walk over a bridge? The feeling when you start thinking: “what If I jump now…?!” I have.. No was my chance to do it… And at the same time: the boys was going to jump, no matter what.. and I’m not a chicken, am i? If they were jumping- I was jumping. No question.It was amazing… WOOOOAAAA… Like flying!

Visiting my friend Anders in his village outside Livingstone

Anders and Chiiko. The kids don’t ALWAYS smile here.. Chiiko loved Anders, but I don’t think she liked the camera in her face at this point. And I don’t blame her… mosongos invating their little homestead and cameras all over. Anders on the other hand… :)

Emely was our host out in the village. She had 4 beautiful kids which she raised on her own. Her homestead was so peaceful and quiet, and nothing there told us about poverty and hunger. They had their corn, their chickens (Madeleine cut the neck of our dinner-chicken the first night! Slowly, slowly with a very bad knife…), their cows, their goats and so on. They had to walk far for water, and there were no electricity. One of my favourite places.... :)

This is probably what will be one of the hardest things for me to handle when coming home. I have hundreds of pictures, but these doesn’t tell the real story. Not even close! The mood, the light, the smells, the sounds, the laughter, the tears, the feeling… The pictures can’t describe how it feels like… And I can’t describe it eighter.. I don’t have the words!

Lena in the “making a better ball-mood”

Kids in playing with the better ball-mood

Ceremony for Pierce’s new motorbike

We got to be part of the most original ceremony in one of the villages! Pierce-our host had got a new motorbike recently. And this day was the day for him to get his blessings from the head of the family!! (Pierce got 3(!) wives, and they were all there, together with the other women around.. They were dancing and singing, and the Head of the family (his aunt) gave him the blessings. Touching here, touching there, praying and giving him the best wishes for the future with his new bike…. It was a nice ceremony!! Maybe something to think about at home?!!