It's been a minute 

I could not let February go by without a blog post.  School has been very time-consuming, now that we are all focussed on our "Master Tracks", in my case, Urban Planning and Policy.  My group has been busy with a case study of a small town in Namibia called Oshakati.  I have interviewed the finance director of the town and talked to him about problems and concerns in the city, in particular, the issue of housing. Here's Damian Hamunyela - 

And here is my student team talking to Damian and other 'stakeholders' in Oshakati, during a conference call, during which we talked about housing, infrastructure, flooding:

After reading about Oshakati and talking to the people there, I have made a proposal to focus my thesis on Namibia with the prospect of going there to study their housing situation and to collect data - yes, Africa!  So who knows - that may be my next stop.   Nothing settled yet but I would love to do it.

In the meantime, spring is here in Rotterdam - the days are longer, the sun is out, though still cold and windy.  But the flowers are blooming....

 

Enjoy -