Christy in Namibia - Peace Corps

Hi all! Wow, I can't believe it's already January 30th.  The month of January has simultaneously flown by but also many days have felt never-ending! The school year started up mid-January, though the beginning of the school year moves a bit slower than what I’m used to from an American perspective. For example, the first day of school for the learners, it still wasn’t clear what grades I would be teaching. So, I just sat in the staff room (enjoying the air con) and read a book! By the end of the day, it was decided that I would be teaching grades 6 & 7 English. I taught for the remaining two days of week one and was just trying to get my bearings. There may or may not have been two occasions where I walked into the wrong classroom and greeted the class “Good morning 7A!” (or 6B) and they responded by corrected me with “7B. Good morning, miss!” and I then had to make a quick and sly exit to find the right classroom. Oops! The timing was unfortunate, but during the ...

Hello all! As the holiday break comes to a close here, I find myself slightly baffled by how 5 weeks off have passed so quickly! As the saying goes, time flies when you're having fun.  At the beginning of break, I moved to my foster family's house (in the same village where I live). I brought over a few bags of my things and unpacked into my new room on their homestead. I then proceeded to spend about 2.5 weeks here in the village with my foster family and had a fantastic time. There was a family wedding (a cousin) one weekend, so there was a lot going on for that. Many of my host siblings that I hadn't met before who live in different parts of Namibia came home for the wedding. It was fun meeting new family members and taking part in the wedding celebration with them!  My host sister Martha (Mbute) and I at the wedding! I was in traditional Wambo attire.  The wedding wasn't all fun and games, though; in Namibia, weddings aren't catered. Rather, di...