African Child Day
Yesterday was African Child Day. A brief history behind it. In the 70's children in Namibia revolted in schools against the South African administration. Many children were killed and since independence they celebrate this day.
Its interesting living in a country that got its independence so recently. Namibians seem to also have a lot of African pride as well.
I also saw the PM Angula who spoke at the ceremony yesterday after being 2.5 hours fashionably late. Politicains everywhere seem to love the sound of their voice.
By the ceremony I mean that we went to a pretty big netball stadium yesterday and many schools were there. Some of them performed as well. Basically an event for the day.It was so easy to tell which were the German schools and the former white schools. As I said earlier segregation though unofficial is still visible.
So one really cute thing happened yesterday. So there is this boy Joseph in grade 4 who is one of the naughtiest kids on the planet. As the function was in a stadium, it meant that we were sitting in the sun. I was covering one side of my face with a paper and then I felt a shade. When I turned around I saw that Joseph was holding up a poster for me so the sun won't shine on my face. Ain't that so cute? Before that he was also playing with my hair. After a little while his friends starting laughing at him and starting saying, "Teacher he likes you teacher." It was hilarious.
Yesterday I saw some grade 1 girls just running aimlessly and laughing. Sights like these warm my heart. They looked soooo cute. I wuv kids!
On a side note "sugar-daddy" is a pretty popular word here.
Its interesting living in a country that got its independence so recently. Namibians seem to also have a lot of African pride as well.
I also saw the PM Angula who spoke at the ceremony yesterday after being 2.5 hours fashionably late. Politicains everywhere seem to love the sound of their voice.
By the ceremony I mean that we went to a pretty big netball stadium yesterday and many schools were there. Some of them performed as well. Basically an event for the day.It was so easy to tell which were the German schools and the former white schools. As I said earlier segregation though unofficial is still visible.
So one really cute thing happened yesterday. So there is this boy Joseph in grade 4 who is one of the naughtiest kids on the planet. As the function was in a stadium, it meant that we were sitting in the sun. I was covering one side of my face with a paper and then I felt a shade. When I turned around I saw that Joseph was holding up a poster for me so the sun won't shine on my face. Ain't that so cute? Before that he was also playing with my hair. After a little while his friends starting laughing at him and starting saying, "Teacher he likes you teacher." It was hilarious.
Yesterday I saw some grade 1 girls just running aimlessly and laughing. Sights like these warm my heart. They looked soooo cute. I wuv kids!
On a side note "sugar-daddy" is a pretty popular word here.
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