ROCKHarbor Africa Team

A group of 15 people going to Namibia, Africa in November 2005.

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ROCKHarbor Africa Team Blog. We are leaving for Namibia, Africa on Novermber 18, 2005.

Sunday, November 27, 2005

The most amazing trip ever

Sorry there has not been an update. It has been as busy as you can possibly imagine. I just fixed someone's computer and as payment they allowed me to make one blog entry. The one day I had an opportunity to go to the internet cafe, George asked me to video on the well he ws digging. He hit water and everything looks like it will be a successful community garden.

We have been teaching Choose To Wait three times per day every day. The first two sessions were at different schools and the evening was at a local church. The turn out at the church was overwhelming at first with probably 200 kids. We are now around 100 and it is more managable. I think this cirricullum will make a big difference to these young adults. It is an amazing experience to teach this.

Yesterday was our first day off and we went to the wood carver's market in Okahanja.

On Thursday we had Thanksgiving with the whole group. It was one of the best Thanksgivings ever. Lynne cooked a great meal. The next day was actually Christmas in Namibia. They had a small tree for all the children and wrapped presents for the kids. Mostly the clothes we had brought were given as gifts. Wood was asked to dress up as "Father Christmas" and hand out presents. They gave him a big red suit and the team made a beard out of construction paper.
After handing out presents, he did a quick change and came back to the Chirstmas tree. He called Monica to the front and proposed. She was completely surprised and said YES. We have lots of pictures to share.

Care and Compassion and Pre school are going well too.

That is all we have time for, we'll try and get to the internet cafe next week.

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