Title: Alex MacMillan (
Namibia)
Status: Previous VSO
URL:
http://notesfromnamibia-alexandlinda.blogspot.com/
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Epilogue - 02/Oct/2012 11:01 - 4447 days ago
So, what's happened since we got back?Well, Alex was offered a job at the Japanese Delegation to the OECD in Paris, as their Sen...
Saying Goodbye - 01/Oct/2012 14:05 - 4448 days ago
The time had come to say goodbye. We'd wrapped up our projects and handed them over, arranged our leave and the flights wer...
Kolmanskop - 01/Oct/2012 13:40 - 4448 days ago
The day that Alex finished his work, we packed the hire car and set off for our final trip to the South of Namibia. We were goin...
Selling the car - 19/Aug/2012 18:47 - 4491 days ago
The time had come to sell Trooper. We were really sad about losing our car - we'd driven over 26,000km in it during the year, tr...
Comic Sans - 19/Aug/2012 18:25 - 4491 days ago
Alex popped into the VSO office one day in August 2011 to get a refund on our electricity bill, when the programme manager calle...
European Interlude - 30/Jul/2012 11:40 - 4511 days ago
When we first booked my flights back to Europe for two weeks, we thought that we might be in Namibia until October. Since t...
Advocacy, Lobbying, and the Caregivers' Conference - 30/Jul/2012 10:38 - 4511 days ago
I'd always believed in the proportional representation system until it came to working with Namibian MP's, who say they owe thei...
They Have That Heart and Caring for the Care Providers - 04/Jul/2012 14:00 - 4537 days ago
Since we completed the two rounds of research trips interviewing men involved in home-based care, we've been writing the subsequ...
Advocacy on the Coast - 26/Jun/2012 10:45 - 4545 days ago
We recently spent a week in Walvis Bay, on the western coast of Namibia, training an action group from the Walvis Bay multi-purp...
Anniversary and VSO Rundu event - 17/Jun/2012 15:07 - 4554 days ago
Since most of the volunteers had left in March, and there are no more VSO'ers coming to Namibia until VSO Namibia closes in Marc...
Alex's Birthday Weekend - 17/Jun/2012 13:50 - 4554 days ago
It was Alex's 31st birthday on 2nd June and we decided we needed to celebrate: furthermore, it would be our 2nd wedding annivers...
Windhoek Life - 30/May/2012 14:19 - 4572 days ago
There's a real advantage to being based in Windhoek. Although at times living in the capital can really get you down - security ...
The Namib and the Naukluft - 29/May/2012 16:06 - 4573 days ago
At the beginning of May, Alex and I decided to have a weekend away hiking in the Naukluft mountains in the middle of the Namib d...
Deep Waters - 29/May/2012 11:42 - 4573 days ago
"We believe that divine healing was provided for in the Old and New Testament and is an integral part of the Gospel." So says&nb...
Public opinion in Namibia - 27/May/2012 13:16 - 4575 days ago
It has taken me a few months to get the confidence to draft press releases on current affairs in Namibia, but recently the LAC's...
Cape Town Birthday Trip - 24/Apr/2012 14:49 - 4608 days ago
Alex and I had booked our Easter weekend trip to Cape Town a few months ago, as my 30th birthday would fall on Easter Monday and...
UNAM - 30/Mar/2012 14:53 - 4633 days ago
UNAM - the University of Namibia. Twenty eager faces watching. Lisianna, my Friendly Haven colleague, gave me the nod. I breath...
VSO - 30/Mar/2012 14:11 - 4633 days ago
"What does VSO stand for?""I don't know""Voluntary Suffering Overseas""Good one... Voluntary Servitude Overseas""Very Small Outc...
Research Round 2 - 22/Mar/2012 12:43 - 4641 days ago
Once we'd picked ourselves up from our manic Christmas trip, we realised January was well under way and it was time to hit the r...
White Ghosts: Zimbabwe - 10/Mar/2012 11:06 - 4653 days ago
"Did you know what the woman was saying to me through the window? "The taxi driver asked us, as we sped through the streets of H...
Malawi - 21/Jan/2012 10:30 - 4702 days ago
Perhaps it was coincidence that we were listening to Daddy Yankees' 'Gasolina' as we drove into the border post between Zambia a...
Zambia (and a bit of Zim) - 20/Jan/2012 11:00 - 4703 days ago
The ferry from Botswana to ZambiaTrooper on the ferry - notice there's no ropes holding the car down, or a lip at the back to st...
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Botswana - 17/Jan/2012 06:10 - 4706 days ago
I'd never realised that the 'No.1 Ladies Detective Agency' was based in Botswana, until our first night when we realised how muc...
Grootfontein and the Caregiver's Conference - 14/Jan/2012 08:29 - 4709 days ago
"Malelepo tete""Eeeeh""Nawa""Eeeeh""Malelepo meme""Eeeeh""Nawa""Eeeeh"The women erupted into claps and laughter. It had taken a...
5 months in... - 13/Dec/2011 14:57 - 4741 days ago
Things I love about Namibia:The vast, amazing, various, gorgeous landscapesHiking and camping in the amazing open spaces of the ...
Family holiday in Namibia - 08/Dec/2011 11:19 - 4746 days ago
Mum and Ruth arrived in a whirl of suitcases, Earl Grey tea (hurrah!) and the spare indicator stalk for our car that'd we'd orde...
Keetmanshoop and Fish River Canyon - 14/Nov/2011 07:54 - 4770 days ago
A group of volunteers from Catholic AIDS Action in Keetmanshoop, who do Home-Based Care for the sick in their community. Most o...
Community and Home Based Care - 02/Nov/2011 12:36 - 4782 days ago
We've been on the road a fair bit since Tsumeb - and here I was, thinking that I'd never get to travel with my placement. I'd p...
Amani lodge - 31/Oct/2011 12:35 - 4784 days ago
The view from Amani Lodge, just outside WindhoekA few weeks ago, we decided to have some relaxation time and go and have a weeke...
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