My name is Lannie Nolito Uwu-khaeb a 20-year-old, 3rd-year Computer Science student at the University of Namibia.

Grew up in a small harbor town west of Namibia with my pet lion in the desert. His name is Simba. I got it as a present for my 10th birthday. 

All jokes aside, I grew up as a normal kid in Namibia running around without much care in the world. Now I’m all grown up trying my best to keep up with this “adulting” thing and don’t get me started on covid. 

The love for technology and robotics runs strong in my blood, that’s why I am currently studying computer science. I fell in love with computers when my dad bought his first computer when I was about the age of 11 and I wasn’t allowed to touch it, that led me to be curious about everything that I could do or create using this machine. Now I am a student that thinks that the universities are doing too much especially with the overload of tests and long lectures, but I guess that’s every student’s experience everywhere in the world.

Besides being a student, thanks to prof. Erkki Sutinen, who saw a great promise to appoint me as the intern for the Future Technology Lab. It is a University of Turku overseas’s plugin campus in Windhoek Namibia(ftlab.utu.fi). I help in the maintenance of the website, teaching robotics to high school and primary school kids (once even university students), and many other small things to help keep the campus up and running at its optimal best. 

I have made a lot of friends in Finland over the past year and I have to say that they are some of the kindest, honest, encouraging, etc people I have met in my life. Unfortunately, I have only met a handful of them in person because of covid. Hopefully, covid won’t stop me from traveling to Finland for this Christmas and New Year. So experience some snow and test if the saunas are better over there.