Baby Shower!

When I left Namibia about 10 years ago, I knew nothing about baby shower/at least I saw it on TV. Luckily I had a surprise Baby shower when in was expecting my first  baby in the US. It was an excellent experience. This was my first Baby shower experience. My friends had planned it for me and all the time  I was smiling not sure what to expect, but I loved all the surprises. I was given a lot of goodies for my first baby and for me to take care of myself after the baby. We played fun games of which I still remember. This is one of the good memories I'll treasure. I told myself that when I return to Namibia, I'll be the one to organize good baby showers for my friends. Since I came back, I went to one baby shower. It was good, but they did it much different from the ones I knew in US. There were no games at all. There were a lot of food, and the baby's present of cause, but I just felt that there was not much fun! Now I have a friend of mine who need a baby shower. I got the list of most of her other friends. All I need to do is organize her baby shower. Wish me luck. I will report back.

ICT Telecom Summit Namibia 2011

Last week I was invited to the ICT Telecom Summit at the Safari Hotel! This was my first time here since this annual event  started about 3 years ago,  when I was in the US. This conference main purpose is to bring all different kinds of people and companies together in the IT industry. Here I had a chance to learn about the new, and future innovations in the Tech sector. Interesting enough some of the stuff I learned a couple years ago in the US, were considered as new in Namibia. according to one of the speakers, in the western world, one can transfer a skype call to a landlines or cell. I have done that already about 3 years ago in the USA this is not new to me. Facebook was also used as a great example for business. I have to admit that FB can be distracting, yet its a powerful tool if used accordingly. I sold books to friends and to strangers via facebook.
Yes there were many great things I learned. Like more on  the IT buzz word cloud computing. It's here where I learned the different kinds of cloud computing, (Private, Public, Hybrid and much more), and learned the details on cloud computing. Window 8 is coming soon!!!! It has some cool stuff, neat User Interface. Overall the conference was informative. To learn more visit: ICT Telecom Summit

Lesson 1 Oombapa/Colors two days later

This one was recorded few days after the lessons started. I'll be posting for Ndamona's one soon.

Lesson 1 Oombapa/Colors

It has been a while since I update this blog. We settled in well. I started Oshiwambo lessons with the kids. Our first lesson was on Colors/Oombapa Here is a clip on what we did. I also created a song on colors.

Happy New Year!

Wow, its already February. My family and I left Kenya December 20, and arrived December 24, 2010. We drove from Nairobi, Tanzania, Zambia to Namibia. When my hubby first suggested we drive to Namibia, I didn't like the idea, until one day a Namibian living in Kenya told us that she drove from Nairobi to Namibia. This was a fun experience. I promise to post pictures and publish a short book based on this journey. We're all fine. More updates coming soon:)

Happy B-day son!

B celebrated his Bday last week Saturday. He really had fun with his buddies! Happy B-day son! Be Blessed love you so much!

First Come First Served Not the same in every country!

When we first came to Kenya in 2009, I was extremely surprised to see many people who will arrive after you at the post office, cyber, food store except at some of the major stores, banks and few other places, and push through to stand in front of you. I don't remember this kind of behavior in Namibia (if it's the same, I can't remember because I have not been home for almost a decade). There are many things I can't remember about Namibia. Surprisingly I have vivid memories of my childhood; thus I remember this kind of behavior while I was in the refugee camp. We usually push over someone because the food or the free clothes we were given could be finished. On the other hand, I remember in the US were I spent almost a decade no matter how much in a hurry a person is, it will be perceived extremely rude to come in and expect to push over someone. Unless you have too young children, and the people themselves volunteered to give you their space, or any out of the ordinary situation. Anyway in Kenya or let me say in Nairobi I have seen this behavior every time I went out. To make it worse the person on the other side helping you, don't even take the time to say, "No, first come first served." One day I was in one of the major grocery store; "Uchumi" We were at the vegetable area when a Caucasian lady arrived at the area to measure the vegetables. She stood there waiting for the gentleman to return to help her. After 2 minutes, the gentleman returned, and at the same time an Indian lady came from nowhere, and she handed her bags to the gentlemen. I was walking toward there, thus I was able to experience everything. The Caucasian woman stood up for herself, in an angry voice she said to the Indian lady, "What are you doing." I was so happy. The Indian lady was caught off guard, breathing loud she said, "I'm sorry." I followed the Caucasian woman and told her, "thank you for letting her know what she was doing was not polite." She smiled and then we end up having a small talk. Here is one of my own experience. Every time I went to our nearby neighborhood little store people came by foot or car, while you are busy purchasing, they start talking to the shop keeper about what they want to buy. The shop keeper would stop serving you, and starts serving the new person like it's the normal thing to do. I used to be upset, but never said anything except on few occasions, and everyone would look at me like I was from another planet. Last week while I was about to give the money to the neighborhood shopkeeper, a lady parked her car about 7 feet away and then she shouted, 'Mkate, mkate" which means bread, bread in Swahili. I understood what she meant, but I didn't say anything. I went ahead and started telling the shopkeeper what I wanted. "Milk, eggs." While I was in the middle of telling him what I wanted, this same lady left her car, and she came pushing through. She gave the shopkeeper some money, and said, "two bread." The shopkeeper stopped helping me, took her money, and gave her everything she wanted. While she was there waiting for her goods, she looked at me, and said with a smile, "I hope I didn't step on your foot." I almost said, "no its ok, but I decided to be sarcastic in a nice way. I said, "you know what, I used to be very upset when I first moved to Kenya, but now I'm used to this kind of behavior here in Kenya." She smiled and said. I'm sorry, I was in a hurry. Surprisingly, the following day we met early in the morning around 8am. She greeted me with a big smile, I greeted her back with a big smile, but I was not sure if it was her. Today I went in a shop, and it happened that she works there. She called me, and she started explaining to me why she did what she did, and she assured me that she had her 8 year old in the car that's why she was in a hurry. Anyway she repeated the situation in a funny way making me laugh so hard, and she ends up wrapping my son's school gift for free. But to be honest I'm not really used to this, and don't know if I would ever get used to it. Something to remember. Everyone is also in a hurry, thus let's just wait for the first person to be helped.