School’s Almost Out for Summer!

By tomorrow, the last finals will have been taken in Polytechnic of Namibia’s Engineering classes. The students (and most professors!) will be out for the summer and will not return to university classes until mid-January.

The professor has just about finished all of his finals grading

 and is as ready as the students are for a break.


However, with garlands of decorated pine boughs hung throughout the malls and stores full of Christmas displays and gift selections, it certainly doesn’t seem like it should be summer, though the temperatures in the 90’s say otherwise.

We’ll have to get used to it though, because as the store windows tell us, ‘tis the season and Christmas is: