Windhoek, Namibia

Last day in Windhoek!
July 16, 2008 - Windhoek, Namibia
Today is our last day in Windhoek.  On Monday, we had an excellent dinner with Claire, a friend of a Kellogg friend who works at the Center for Disease Control.  It was fun to get her take on the country, the progress it has made and how she likes living here.  Plus, it was great to have another girl in the group! :)  On Tuesday, Jordan and...
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Why is a stoplight called a robot?
July 10, 2008 - Windhoek, Namibia
Blog entry for Thursday, July 10 Although the Namibians seem to think we have an accent, we’ve experienced some vocabulary challenges with them as well.  Who knew that a stop light was referred to as “robot”? We’ve had some great meetings.  On Tuesday, we met with PEPFAR, a US-based agency that provides much of the HIV/AIDS funding in...
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First Meeting!
July 8, 2008 - Windhoek, Namibia
Six days after leaving Evanston, we finally did the first “service” part of our trip yesterday.  Our meeting with the National Institute of Pathology was a good first step.  NIP operates 36 lab sites across Namibia, and their system for testing infants is better than in many African countries.  About half of the infants who need to be...
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Socially Unacceptable: Jogging
July 5, 2008 - Windhoek, Namibia
Socially Unacceptable: Jogging So far, we haven't gotten a really good feel for Namibia because Windhoek is so different. Of the 2 million Namibians, over 1.5 million of them live in Windhoek, and 5% of the people would be considered wealthy by any standards.  Erin thinks the neighborhood our hostel is in looks like a Phoenix suburb.  Peter is...
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Seems a bit more like Africa... In Namibia
July 4, 2008 - Windhoek, Namibia
We arrived in Namibia this morning.  (A two-hour flight north of Capetown... Jordan wants me to type that I've slept about 90% of the time in planes or taxis.  I call it a defense mechanism against motion sickness... but he might think I'm lazy.)  The airport is 40 minutes away from the City, so we got to see a lot of the landscape, which...
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