Farm school fun day...

On Saturday we went to the farm school where Catherine, another AIMer from the UK, is teaching. It was a 45 minute drive and most of that was on sand/gravel roads. It was just like you sometimes you see on TV - the car speeding down this dirt track leaving a huge cloud of dust behind! The rural part of Namibia is much more like the Africa you imagine with small ramshackle buildings often made out of corrugated iron. The school has about 70 children and is literally in the middle of nowhere serving a number of local children and about 20 that live in a hostel next to the school. The views from the classrooms were spectacular. The school was holding a fun day to try to raise money complete with bouncy castle and horse rides: and of course the mandatory braai!

Around 2pm we were taken to see the school emblem a tree that grows out of a rock.

We climbed up to see it and to get inspiring views of the countryside.

Ruth said it reminded her of the verse about the shadow of a great rock in a weary land as we looked down on the dry river bed which will apparently run with water once the rains come.

We went from there to another rock where the local children had a natural slide - made from a very smooth and steep rock. The school secretary, who was quite a character, gave us a demonstration by sitting on a piece of plastic and sliding down - much to our consternation! From there we called in on a girl who had given birth just a few days earlier. During the week she had been taken, whilst in labour, to Rehoboth with Catherine and the other teachers, at the end of the school day!