A NEW YEAR WHAT WILL IT BRING
2012, a new year, a new chance, new challenges. Thinking about what to do in the new year. Then my thoughts take stock! What do you want to do? What is going to make 2012 special and not the same as 2011? Well, you are turning a year older, some things from last year are [...]
SINGING AULD LANG SYNE
Now everyone has recovered from the excitement of New Year, I want to tell you about the next celebration for Scots, something called Burns Day or otherwise known as Burns Night…
On the 25th of January,1759 the Scottish Poet, Rabbie Burns(Robert Burns) was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, the West of Scotland. He is also known as [...]
IT’S (ALMOST) CHRISTMAS TIME
One of my favourite Christmas songs is: It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. But that’s probably because it’s cold in my own country with a lot of Christmas trees, snow, ice and lights. Here I’m sunburned and almost blown away because of the wind. But that doesn’t take the fun out of the [...]
HOW DO YOU CELEBRATE?
“Snow is falling, all around us, children playing, having fun, Merry Christmas Everyone.” An overplayed hit song by Shaken Stevens always around in December, forever managing it’s way into the UK charts during Christmas holidays.
Of course it doesn’t always snow at Christmas, does it? With little knowledge of how the Namibians celebrate this festive season, [...]
My Gap Year in Luderitz
When I finished High school, a lot of my friends and other students wanted to take a gap year. One wanted to work a whole year to earn money, another one wanted to travel. Someone else wanted to work for a couple of months and travel after that or wanted to go to school in [...]
A Life Changing Opportunity…
A gap year. Those three words, don’t sell it. Twelve months away from home, working with children in two completely different areas, writing a monthly newspaper, on the coast of Africa! That’s more like it.
High School leavers are plummeted straight into College and University from High School to immediately continue their studies. I struggled to [...]
FROM THE BUCHTERS
Zo, dus dit is LĂĽderitz. Wat een verschil met mijn eigen land. Zoals jullie al hebben kunnen lezen in de editorial ben ik Nederlandse. Ik spreek Nederlands en dat lijkt heel erg op Afrikaans. Als je Afrikaans kunt lezen, moet je dit maar hardop voorlezen en dan kun je zien dat het heel erg lijkt [...]
DEAR BUCHTERS
It is never easy saying goodbye to dear friends and now, sadly, it is our turn to do the leaving.
They say that you cry when you first arrive in Luderitz and you cry when you leave. We buchters are certainly good at moaning about life in Luderitz. We complain about the wind or the heat, [...]
YOU’LL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN
Luderitz Bucht – a place literally like none other. I don’t know anywhere in the world comparable to here. The Westernised Africa is hard for any foreigner to get their head around unless they have experienced it. I really wish you Buchters could see this town through my eyes. September 2010, when I arrived for [...]
“WILL YOU BE BACK?”
Every Buchter volunteer – as we’ve been told countless times in recent weeks – assures you all as their departure date beckons that they will of course, “Be Back”
“That’s what they all say” you sigh with a knowing nod.
I have no desire to beat the crowd so as D-Days dawns, I shall inevitably join them.
I [...]
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