Study time

3 to 4 p.m. is notoriously known at SIAMA as ... STUDY TIME !!! : )

The school system is organized totally different over here. Temperature can easily rise up to 40°C in summer. They try to avoid the hot hours (& equally hot-tempered teachers or pupils ; ) Therefore school starts at 7 a.m. in the morgen and ends at 1 p.m. at noon.

At study time we help the girls with their homework. For the little ones that means basically learning to read or calculate. It's hard to say that some 8 year olds barely know their alphabet, let alone know how to read... The less talented go into the 'special class' for a while which focuses on these basis capacities. Some might easily lack 2-3 years behind on Western children with better education opportunities...

From those who do eventually graduate, only a minority goes to university. The elite doesn't even send its children to the university in Windhoek. They send them to Johannesburg or Kaapstad (regarded as offering the highest education standards in Southern Africa) or Germany (descendants of the former colonists) The ones that acquire a university degree are often offered better jobs abroad - even nurses - and so the "brain drain" continues putting a mortgage on the future of the country...