Getting Started

Well this week was full of excitement. We got to meet the students we will be working with and what a neat group! On Wednesday we gave a Braai party for the Namibian students and teachers involved with the DNA program. We had a ton of meat and yummy desserts. The students really enjoyed the food and we all got together and played UNO, which they loved as well... I have to say some of those Namibians know how to cheat their way through a game haha.

We have lunch every day at the Hotel School which is a culinary arts school and on friday I ate Oryx! which is Americas equivalent to a Caribou mixed with a gazelle type animal...It was VERY good!

I was able to get started figuring out what format to put the images under. We are struggling with data space though Mike and Rodayne were able to give the archive program 8 terabytes that still isn't enough for what we have... I taught on Monday about some of the formats I thought would be a good option to save the Archives under and the rest of the week was research. I have seen some incredible photos and some have been in the archives for so long only 1% of the Namibian population has seen it. We scanned in some glass plates which dated back in the 40's and deteriorating very badly some were broken and already coming a part. I saw pictures of the old Bushman tribes and Nazi planes and so much history that no one has been able to take part in until now.

Its really exciting to see the life in the students when they scan in these photos. Some students recognize the tribes and some they have no clue on. So its a learning process for all of us how great a project.. a much needed one!