Hello! Being a part of Peace Corps has been my dream for over 10 years already and the time has finally come! I am serving in Namibia Africa from 2015-2017. For my two years of service I will be in the beautiful Kavango (West) Region as a Junior Secondary Education English Teacher for grades 9 and 10. I will also be teaching Arts to various grades, along with "Secondary Projects".
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Showing posts with label #sundayfundaypics. Show all posts
BIG NEWS I forgot to tell you. 2 of my learners applied to Camp GLOW (Girls and Guys Leading Our World) a special camp held by Peace Corps Volunteer in many serving countries. The attended the week long camp in August and absolutely LOVED it!!
Every blue moon volunteers get to escape to the coast to get fancy and find fun crystals, stones, feathers and shells.
(Another PCV taught me how to make dream catchers!)
My latest collage. Reflection time/Down time is always good for the corazon.
While I was on Med Evac an old friend gave me a new tattoo. Now I have learners drawing their own tatts as well. he he he :)
Broke into the hot cheetos stash!!!! OH YEAH!!!!
I just want to throw it out there that I'm almost out;
Christmas is soon,
and
for the most part I was a good girl this year.
My host niece is such a little cutie. Its never too soon to introduce them to books.
To continue on with the May holiday adventures after Erindi
Game Park my friend and I returned to the Kavango region and stayed in my
village for a bit so that I can show her that village life style. I’m glad she
got to experience it, but there was one MAJOR perk she got to enjoy which NEVER
happens, we had Taco Tuesday!!! As a
birthday gift my family sent my friend Bea with some corn tortillas for me ;) a
few friends were over so to kick off my Namixcan BirthMay celebrations we had
margaritas and tacos!! It was awesome!!
After a few days in the village a group of fellow
volunteers, Bea, and myself decided to jump some boarders and venture off to
Zambia, just east of Namibia. This time we were riding in style and used
Intercape Bus. It wasn’t anything fancy, but it was 3,792,735 times better than
Kumbis. Kumbis really do make me nervous. Also, Intercape offered an overnight
bus which was a nice option so that we could just sleep for the 11 hour ride and
arrive in the morning so the adventures could begin right away. Early in the
morning we saw some wild elephants and giraffes on the side of the road. This
made me kind of giggle to my friend. Back home the animals I saw the most often
were cattle and horses. Now I rarely see horses but giraffes and baboons are
pretty regular thing; when I return to the states it’s going to be funny to see
horses again.
Back to the fun stuff though, Zambia!! Zambia was awesome.
We stayed in a pretty touristy area, Livingston so I didn’t get to see too much
of the country by any means, but what I did see, I loved. We were there about 3
and half days and got to do lots of fun stuff. The first day was a bit more
relaxed and we basically just walked around Livingston which was a cute town.
People seemed friendly and it had a nice safe feel to it. The second day was
action packed. We got to go see one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World,
Victoria Falls. If you are not familiar with it Victoria Falls is the largest
waterfall in the world and it is absolutely beautiful!! It costed $20USD and
was completely worth it. There are many walking trails on top and on the bottom
of the falls. There’s also a bridge about mid level of the falls directly in
front of them where you can walk and get soaked. The mist from the falls is so
strong it creates a rainforest and garden of rainbows, it was surreal to see.
The other exciting point was bungee jumping!! Yes bungee jumping!!!! Ahh it was
so scary yet a blast all at once. A bridge a bit down from the falls offers a
thing called the Big Air package, this included bungee jumping, the bungee
swing (which was similar to bungee jumping with out as much air time and you
fall feet first rather than head first), and zip lining. Check out the
following blog to see the video of the bungee swing and bungee jumping. Man,
that was a rush. I think bungee jumping was even scarier than sky diving!
The next day we purchased a package from the hostel we
stayed at (JollyBoys backpackers) which started our day with a 2 hour canoe
ride where we got to see a few elephants, followed by elephant interaction
where we got to feed and hang out with the elephants. You even get to sit with
them and tell them about how pretty they are. Well you don’t have to tell them
that but theyre beautiful so I wanted to. After the interaction we went on a
small safari drive followed by lunch. After lunch we were able to relax for bit
before going on a sunset cruise where dinner was provided. On the boat we met a
super sweet pair of parents who were in Zambia because their son just completed
his 27 month service with Peace Corps and was now marrying someone he met
during service. Those Peace Corps love
stories get me every time!
Over all the trip (though brief) was one of a life time. I
had great company and an amazing time. Tons of pictures were taken so I decided
to collaborate them all into this fun little video. (Told you I’d make up for
the missed Sunday Funday pictures.) So for your Sunday Funday there are tons of
pictures between then three blog posts!
So if you read my last post, I had a bit of a rough couple weeks. This past Thursday I woke up a bit on the wrong side of the bed so I instantly popped in my headphones for the walk to school. The moment I arrived to school I'm greeted with a crowed of grade 0 (kindergarten) learners adorable as can be just wanting to say hi and give high 5's. That's all it took to turn my frown upside down and bring my day to a brighter start. I mean look at them. How can you not smile back at these cuties?
FLASHBACK!!!!!!
Some of you may have seen in my post a few months ago that my host family surprised me with a puppy. At the time of the post I thought Hafa was a girl. Turns out Hafa is a boy. He's healthy, happy, and has an unending amount of puppy energy. I would compare his to one of those spastic cartoon squirrels. We're working on breaking his jumping and food stealing habit. He's a very faithful walking buddy. He drives me nuts, but I do love him never the less
With exams = marking alllllllllllllllll day. Sometimes learners say some funny things though
Question: Write down a word that has the opposite meaning of the word threaten?
Answer: Rhinoceroses
Question: Find a word in the text that has more or less the same meaning as "a set of laws about something"
This past week 4 other volunteers and myself were chosen to have dinner with the US Ambassador of Namibia, his wife, and a special RPVC (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer) who is now serving with the Center of Disease Control. It was an amazing opportunity and a delicious meal. Thank you so much for the invitation!!
What life has brought me to:
Sunrises kissing the siloquet of my homestead
And
Watching the sunset on the Okavango River
In case you guys can't tell, I can't get enough of the skies here
Basically what a "bus stop" looks like. There's no public bus system, no jumping on the "L" like in Chicago, no subways.... Just the side of a road and a hand to wave to catch someone to pick you up.
My definition of "Free range animals" has completely changed since beginning serice in Namibia. Animals literally are free range here. The whole village is their limit.
Nothing like relaxing under a tree with your friends.
This week was my sister and grandmas birthday, so since I'm an English and Arts teacher we decided we should all celebrate them by turning our arts project into making a Happy Birthday video. Lol they kept trading papers with each other and changes Amy's name to "Aym"
