So it's Friday and I was thinking of a fun fact. This morning in my language lesson I tried to do a simple exercise with my helper. In English its simple not in jo/'hoansi I found out. I found out this language has 5 classes of nouns. So for you English challenged folks like me … Continue reading Nouns

Just realized its been a few weeks since we blogged and time has flown by so fast. We had our unit yearly conference last weekend and was challenged greatly by our guest speaker. Just wanted to let everyone know we are alive and working on a new newsletter to e-mail out early next week. Claudia … Continue reading The front door

This past weekend we have experienced some big steps in relationship building with our neighbors. Thursday we returned home to find Uncle, /ui (Jeremy's language helper), and little Daqm setting poles for a shade area behind our house. It brought us to tears because we did not ask and they asked for nothing in return. … Continue reading Healing Ceremony

G!u is water in Ju/'hoansi.The average American uses 80-100 gallons of water per day. This means a family of 4 uses 400 gallons a day.Water is hard to come by in the Kalahari Desert. Last year Tsumkwe, Namibia only received 39.7cm (14.9in) of rain. This is for the whole year. Back in the U.S. we … Continue reading g!u