Just a reminder to those of you who were keeping up with my blog in 2009 that I have been blogging on a different site this year. You can keep up with my Namibian adventures and misadventures at: http://jeninnamibia.blogspot.com/ Thanks for all of your support! Lots of love, Jen

Hi All! I want to thank you for reading and responding so positively to my blog from these past 11 months! I also want to apologize for falling off these past few months - this has been due to the madness that is the third term of the school year, hectic school and end-of-the-year schedule, laziness, and also the fact that most occurrences here have become so common-day to me that I forget how blogworthy much of my life here is. I am looking into a new and more ...

This past weekend I attended "Copperfest"- an annual festival held in Tsumeb, a desert oasis town in central/northern Namibia that I knew very little about aside from the fact that it celebrates the copper industry in Tsumeb, Namibian culture(s) and is an all-around good time. To make the 400km trip, I rented a car with four other volunteers (which turned out to be only marginally more expensive than hiking there and back-and a lot less exasperat...

The days have been upsettingly cold lately. When I was told pre-departure that it gets cool in the winter months of June-August I thought maybe a light jersey would do or a long-sleeved shirt. No. It is cold. Granted, I have always been cold-intolerant, but the mornings are uncomfortable. Since housing is not heated or insulated the temperature inside my house is invariably the temperature outside of my house..and as soon as the sun starts to go down, until mid-d...

Happy Canada Day! I felt very patriotic this morning, donning red and white with a Canadian flag sticker on my cheek, as I stepped out of my house at 6:30 to cross the field to school. The morning sun was dressed in his holiday best as well, burning a fiery red low on the horizon and tingeing the hazy morning sky a soft pink. The winter mornings here have a soft, pastel colouring. Not clear, but not cloudy, it's like the cool of the night is lingering in the a...