So we had a few visitors here in
Omungwelume from Sunday until today. A few days back a volunteer
texted me and asked if a couple of German tourists who he had hitched
a ride with could stay at my house for a night or two, I said sure.
Believe it or not we don't get many
tourists in northern-central Namibia past Etosha. Mainly because
unless you're interested in seeing a lot of livestock cross the road
there really isn't a whole lot to draw people to the area. None the
less these two girls showed up in Ongwediva on Sunday in a little VW
polo. An hour and very bumpy ride later, we were in Omungwelume.
Eva and Lena are studying special
education in Bavaria and are on holiday for a few weeks. They were
interested in seeing Bret's and mine school. We had the chance to
have a quick question/answer session with one of my English classes,
who were really interested to meet people from Europe who have also
studied English as a second language. The girls even sang a song!
They also walked around the village on their own during the day,
meeting people including three girls from the primary school who they
taught tic-tac-toe.
It's not like we never get visitors,
typically it's other volunteers living around here. But these two had
only been in the country for a week and seemed like they were
instantly comfortable...which certainly isn't easy. And they made
pretty good crepes.
I'm at the very end of term 2 now. In a
week I have 10 days off and I plan to go to the southern part of the
country. Should be uber cool!
Slaterz
Slaterz
