Follow us on instagram or facebook for beautiful pictures from around the world Norway and Namibia is very different in many ways. I hope reading this can be both fun and maybe also give you new ways of seeing things bringing more understanding when meeting other cultures. Norway is extremely egalitarian. We say “you” when …
Read from first part here or part 5 here. I was eager to get started and walked to the different pricipals in town. There are 7 schools so I focused mostly on the secondary schools since SCORE (my organization) had a program called “youth leads”. The experience was that working with teachers was difficult, but …
Read from the start (part 1) or previous post (part 6) My organization want all their volunteers to stay with host families. The exchange should include culture, not only work skills. Altough it was difficult some times I’m realy grateful for this experience. As I have written in part 5 I was not the perfect …
Did you miss the previous posts? Start reading from part 1 here The first day I woke up alone in my home for the next year I was both excited and frightened. I decided to go for a walk. The first place I walked by was a school, Welwichia primary school, and I felt like …
Did you miss the beginning? Here is part 1, part 2 and part 3 We were three volunteers in the car and Stefan (the boss). The two other volunteers were Canadians. The first stop was Swakopmund (the holiday destination of Namibians wealthy enough to go on holiday) with it’s amazing sand dunes (the highest in …
Did you miss the first parts. Read them here: Part 1, part 2 On the last day in South Africa we were told where we should spend the next year of our lives. My destination was Khorixas in Namibia. During my training in Norway I was told great stories from Khorixas by a previous volunteer …
PS! We were advised never to bring any valuables outside, so still not many good pictures. Did you miss part 1. Read it here After getting the visa stamp and walking through the custums we were met by a group of people welcoming us. This was the first cultural shock. The staff and volunteers meeting …
PS! 15 years ago phones did not take pictures and cameras was not small enough to have in your pocket. I didn’t take any pictures before departure, but more pictures will come in later posts. This is from Zambia, but with people I met in Norway before departure. 15 years ago I studied to become …