It is always the people that I meet that capture my heart when I travel and eembaxu was no different. While we could not readily communicate, many people did not speak english and I spoke no Ovambo, so conversations were short to say the least. But words are not necessary. Smiles translate well and quite often women would, by gestures, show me what I needed to do or what they wanted from me. One of my favorite "interactions" was when I was trying to get the address of 2 women from the women's conference. They had an exercise in friendship and I was given one woman's name and another was given my name. We were to pray for that woman and hold her in our heart. My being from the US presented a challenge. I gestured for them to write their address in my book but they wrote their cell numbers. They wanted me to give them my cell number. I was finally able to communicate that what good would phone numbers do us? We couldn't talk very long not knowing the other's language. At least a note can be translated. When the understood what I was saying we all shared a big laugh. Below are photographs of some of the beautiful people I came to know in Eembaxu.
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