Today just before the 10:40a break, several Namibian police officers came to the school. During the break they sounded the bell, which sounds like an air raid siren, to gather all of learners and showed everyone two pictures of escaped prisoners. Apparently they escaped from Eenhana, about 40km away the previous night and were thought to be in the area. One was arrested for house breaking. The other was arrested for stealing solar panels.
After school, Aoife and I decided to take a walk to explore the area surrounding our homesteads. We walked along the sand road until we got to what is called the pipeline. Apparently, it is a gravel road that follows the same route as a water pipeline. There are public spigots along the pipeline for homesteads without running water to get their water supply. Most homesteads do not have running water – Nghimtina’s and Hangala’s homesteads are exceptions.
As we were walking, we kept getting passed by bakki’s full of policemen. We figured that they had been out looking for the prison escapees. On the way back to our homesteads, a man yelled Aoife’s name from the doorway of a bottle store and we walked over to say hello. The Tate remember her from when she was here as a volunteer. He did not speak English, so the wife was translating a bit before the daughter, who is in grade 10 at my school showed up. We decided to sit and have a cool drink before heading home. The mother wanted both mine and Aoife’s phone numbers and suggested that I stay longer in Edundja to help the learners practice their English.
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