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 …
I worked as a volunteer for SCORE in Khorixas for a year. Since it was not normal to have a camera at that time and I took many pictures I’ll post them here in case anyone present in them want to have some old pictures.
Khorixas is a small town. The mayor of the town said to me it’s 5000 plus -minus 10.000 inhabitants. The town itself has few sights for tourists, but is a good place to stop for trips to nearby places or if you need a stopover from Swakopmund to Etosha or Opowo. Getting there: Joining an …