Dear Friends,
What an adventure that past weeks have been! The fun of cooking ovizema
(cornmeal porrage) over an open fire, and eating it hot with omavara (goat's
milk) in the shade of a spreading tree, while watching the butterflies float
in the warm breeze and listening to the songs of tropical birds and the
chatter of happy children. The hard life of missionaries, for sure...
Actually there's no better way to find out how the Himba people speak and
live than just living with them, so that's what I've been doing for the past
few weeks. As I mentioned in my previous e-mail, I spent two weeks studying
language and culture at the mobile school at Okuhozu about 30 kilometers
north of Opuwo. I even ended up substitute teaching in one of the classrooms
for three days!
Continue reading "African Adventures #2"
