Revisit Orumana Mission Station, Namibia - 35 years later

So how much did it change?  Or not changed, in 35 years?

I revisited this site on 30 April 2016, 35 years after i have last seen it. Of course it looked different, actually VERY different.  If i did not prepare myself to find the house, and been a bit "over confident" to drive in, talk to the local people, ask permission to go and look, i could not have done this. Even when i found the house i was uncertain, but walking around it i recognised the features and of course, photos don't lie.  Unless it is a photo of yourself! Like on your ID of drivers' license!

The Orumana mission station is now quite populated with many buildings added.  The house we lived in is without residents, the doors are boarded, the windows broken, dirty inside (with faeces on the floor).  See photo below. I wonder why no one lives in it?

I attach a "then and now" pic, the view from the house we lived in.  Except for superficial changes, like fences, vegetation and overhead wires, 'nothing changed'.  Well, this isnt true, but the similarities after 35 years are VERY very obvious. I numbered interesting features in the pics:

1. the mopani tree is thicker (see the fork to identify the tree)
2. this little retaining wall is still intact, with NO improvement or deterioration in 35 years!
3. little outbuilding is still the same, even same colour.
4. the 'sandstone' walls...still 100% the same.
5. look at the branch, at the arrow...is this still the same after 35 years?  Looks like it, amazing!
6. retaining wall, parallel with road, still there.