Aus, a small place in Namibia. There were less than 50 people in the village. But it had an unsmall location mark on Namibia's map, which deserved some place as big as Dan-shie on Taiwan's map.
Unable to get to our destination named Luderitz, so we might as well to stay in the little village for one night. There was still several hours of sunlight. After finding a lodge to stay, we went out to take a wander. Surprisingly I realized that there was a family living in the first house. Well, I didn't know if we could call it a house. There were just walls, no roof, which made me think it was deserted. The kids and the dog were running around happily. But seeing us approaching, the dog stopped playing and started to bark at us, just like any other dog which was very determined to protect his host family. The whole family members all walked out. Nick smiled and explained that we had no bad intention, we were from Taiwan, he is American and I am Taiwanese, and we wanted to take some pictures of them. We would send them the pictures after developing them.
As we could see they didn't speak English at all. But after using body languages to communicate, eventually they understood us. As soon as we raised our cameras, the vicious dog put away his mean attitude and started to posture. It seemed that he didn't want to look bad in the pictures. Funny, wasn't it? I looked at the family and it reminded me of a Chinese idiom “Jia-tu-si-bi”, which means the family is so poor that the only thing they have is four pieces of walls. As I looked over, there was only a bedquilt, not even a bed. Their smiles made me feel sad. This might be their only chance to take pictures in their lives.
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