<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Birthday Weekend Adam and Rachel, both of whose schools are closed due to flooding, came into Okahao on Thursday the 12th to visit my school and teach with me on Friday and to celebrate my birthday weekend. Rachel is the volunteer who I have spent the most time with since being stationed in the north. Her school has been closed since just after Valentine's Day and so she ...

<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> March 10-13, 2009 It's been a dry past few days, which has been a nice change. In fact, from what I have seen, water levels seem to be going down all around Okahao. This doesn't mean that we're out of the woods just yet, but it's definitely at step in the right direction. My week has been good to me so far. I collected applications from learners for library assistants and...

Helloooo...I'm sorry that it's been so long since my last post. Things have been busy and crazy here, and to top it off the phone company decided to randomly disconnect my phone and internet and it has been...less than simple..to have it all sorted out. Hopefully I will be able to be in touch with the rest of the world soon! Some of you have been asking for my phone & mailing information, so I've posted it below. Postage and calling to Namibia can be quite pr...

Maybe it was the sunshine, maybe it was the good night's sleep, maybe it was the 5:20 a.m. yoga, maybe it was the Universe cutting me some slack, or maybe it was simply the catharsis of a good online vent, but today was...a complete 180. I let so much off of my shoulders in what was meant to be a wry and honest word expulsion of a blog entry. I realised, from the few concerned comments I received, that my sardonicism may not have translated over the internet. M...

Riding the Curve In our WorldTeach orientation we learned about culture shock-its stages and manifestations and relative timeframes. We talked about the "culture curve", a graphical mapping out of the highs and lows of cultural awareness and culture shock upon being immersed in a new culture for an extended period of time. I'm not going to bore you with the details, but let it be known that I have now set up camp in stage two: Initial Culture Shock...