Village life in Namibia

We visited a local school to start our day, a combined school of primary grades 1-7 and junior high 8-10, with about 250 students. Education is complusory from age 6 to 16 with major promotional exams after 7th, 10th, and 12th grades. Only about half the 10th graders to on to high school (in another town). If you do well after 12th grade you can quality for an international university. This schools recently was furnished with solar panels. Interestingly grades 1-3 are taught in the local language, while they study English as a 2nd language, but all the higher grades are taught in English.
We visited the 10th grade, which had a lesson in molecular biology on a flip chart and their books were open to a lesson in banking (how to write checks, establish saving accounts, etc.). The first to third grade were taking their porridge break - porridge is provided by the school.
We then visited a traditional village, where they show cased how life was lived 40-60 years ago. This included a demonstration of catching fish, making cornmeal, their chicken coop and a mouse trap. They also shared the coming of age ceremony for a girl. She is sung into the village after her first cycle and closed up in a hut for a month as the older women teach her the ways of a woman. Interestingly, back then women would marry at about 16, men at 25, always to a woman at least 5 years younger. Today men are getting married younger and women, older. They ended their demonstration with typical dancing.