Life at Ponhofi
I decided to take a Sunday stroll and take pictures of the flooding that was happening north of Ohangwena. By chance it turned out to be a very fortuitous day to have a camera. That was the day the helicopters came to Ponhofi. Most of these pictures are from that day.
This is a long shot of the front gate of Ponhofi There's actually a number of buildings on the right-hand side, including a shebeen (bar) but you can't see them for the trees.
One of the blocks of classrooms. These ones are slightly smaller than the ones I teach in.
Class 11F -- > Each of my classes made a newspaper this term, some of the students did meticulous work, others, well... but only class 11F posted their finished newspaper on the wall.
The school is completely surrounded by a barbed wire fence. Most of the barbed wire is on the inside, suggesting that it's there to keep people in, not out. The soccer field is outside the barbed wire, with a locked gate.
The best place to watch a soccer match is from the tree, and there's always a group of boys up there.
Any sunny day can turn into laundry day, but it's usually on the weekends that you see the fences bloom in colour.
The basketball court is inside the main barbed wire fence, but only the volleyball court is inside the fenced-in student hostel compound. All of the teachers' houses are between the hostel and the basketball court. I don't understand the logic of it.
Some random photos of students, some I know some I don't.
On
the left is Jerobeam, on the right is Ndeshi. I
don't know the two in the middle.
Abner
and Tangeni doing chores for a teacher.
Mercy
and Pombili posing on a teacher's car.
My original housemate, Osamu Sakurai, who completed two years of volunteering at Ponhofi and is off to grad school.
And let's end with a beautiful sunset
— SGP
