Last night we had a baai (cookout/social gathering around our fire) with Hopson and his sister, Dali and his good friend Pandu.Pandu is from Namibia and he was the one that took us around Katutura.Dali cooked traditional porridge and cabbage for us while Hopson cooked some sort of meat and chicken.The porridge was a little weird to me because it looked like mashed potatoes, but it tasted like glue and could roll into a ball like rubber.But, I loved the cabbage…it tasted like cauliflower to me.Lol I couldn't bite into the other meat because it was so tough, but I enjoyed the chicken.I was so exhausted afterwards though that I looked like a zombie while I tried to keep myself up for another 2 hours so I wouldn't wake up at 4 am. J

School was very good this morning.There were three teachers sick so the other teachers were running around trying to cover classes.There are no substitutes unless they volunteer like me. J I had double periods of 9th, 10th, and 11th grades.The 9th graders discovered pi and the formulas for a circle after measuring the circumference and diameter of several circular objects that I had them bring in.The 10th graders reviewed circle geometry and started using it in proofs.Someone stole the dry erase markers out of the pencil bag between yesterday and today. Lol Apparently, the students like the chalk and markers a little too much.JAnd the 11th graders went over adding fractions with variables and finding common denominators and factoring and such.They're a good group of kids.If it gets too loud, they usually quiet themselves down before I even try to quiet them.The 11th graders need to ask more questions though.I can tell that some of them don't understand, but they'd rather suffer in silence than me draw any attention to them.They shake their heads furiously if I try.

There were still questions about America and teaching there and lil' wayne. LolThey wanted to know what happened if the American students were caught with their cell phones.They thought that their school was strict. ;)And they thought it was cool that American students have lockers.They carry everything around with them all day or some of the registration (homeroom) teachers let them keep jackets or extra books in a small corner of their room, but there isn't much space.My 10th grade students are going to try to teach me some Afrikaans and Oshwambo.Should be fun!I think I'll also try to sit in on their Afrikaans class tomorrow.

I basically had my first 6 classes back to back except for the school break.During the first break, they all get these burgers for lunch if they would like.I watched the soccer game again.They are almost vicious.They don't care how hard they kick the ball and they're out of breath from running so much after only about 10 minutes, yet their field is only a small 15ft by 15ft square.One group uses the back corner of the school's campus and the other uses an area where the principal and another teacher park their cars near the front office.I should point out that the only place you find "regular" grass is on official fields where some of the teams play rugby or soccer.The grass that normally grows here is like grasslands grass.If they're just playing around or if they are practicing, they usually play on sand, which is everywhere, or concrete.I tend to get a lot of sand and little rocks in my shoes by the end of the day; it gets annoying.I also noticed during break that there is an African albino student at Combretum.That's not very common especially because most African albinos tend to have a reddish tint to their hair (so I was told) and he had very white, blondish hair.I was done by 11:20am and since I'm a volunteer teacher, I'm allowed to leave when I'm done teaching.So I walked down to the café in town and had a snack while I waited for Hopson to pick me up.

During the afternoon, I just relaxed in the sun and then took a nap. It was a nice day.I will probably start at PAY in the afternoons either tomorrow or Thursday.Mom finalized our trip to Victoria Falls.We will be going the weekend before we come back to America.That way we can fly to Vic Falls and then from there, fly to Jo'burg.Hopefully we will not miss our flight back to the states.The airline we are using to get there will also make us pay an arm and a leg for our luggage, but we don't want to pass up the chance to see Victoria Falls, which is one of the seven natural wonders of the world.I also get to ride on an elephant while I'm there!! I'm super excited! :)

Well I think we're going to head out to dinner tonight.I'm a little tired of meat so I suggested going out, which means I have to pay.LolI will try to stop in an internet café to put the rest of my pictures up either tomorrow or Thursday.I can't upload or download much using our Cell One Wireless at home because we only have 1G for now.I could easily use that up uploading pictures and then I have no internet. :/Oh, and what is going on at home: national and personal. I want updates please. J I heard that Obama's popularity dropped and some other weird things were going on?And someone has to wait for me to come home to watch the Harry Potter movie so I don't look like a creep in the theatre by myself!! lol

I wanted to add real quick that finding a meal of no meat is very hard in Namibia and I had to eat chicken instead.LolAnd they speak French here too…didn't expect to hear that language.Love you and miss you all!

Shannon