Thanksgiving

Today marks my 100^th day in Namibia. How crazy is that!?! It is also Thanksgiving – although it doesn’t feel so much like it. It’s been HOT lately. The temperatures have been in the 90’s pretty consistently lately. And since no one here knows about Thanksgiving, it just seems like another normal day. Except the fact that today was the last day of school for the learners. It was sad seeing them all moving out of the hostel and going home. A lot have said they might not be back to this school next year, and that makes me sad too because I’ve gotten to know a lot of them and will miss them if they don’t return.

I was able to attend a Thanksgiving Day celebration in Keetmanshoop this past weekend with some other volunteers. There was no turkey, but there was chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, butternut squash soup (amazing!), corn pudding (very good), stuffing, corn bread, pumpkin bread, homemade rolls (delicious), pumpkin pie, cherry pie, snicker doodle cookies and watermelon. It was all so very good, and somehow, I didn’t cook anything. But I did help to clean!

School is out until the middle of January which means that I will be traveling throughout the holidays. I’m not sure how much internet time I will find, but I will try to keep posting on my adventures.

I’m very thankful for the opportunity that I have being a Peace Corps Volunteer. I’m thankful to have had a wonderful host family in Okahandja, a nice place to live at site with a very nice family, learners who are fun to be around (even if they drive me crazy sometimes), a wonderful principal and work colleagues, amazing new friends, and time to travel around the country during the holidays. And of course I’m so thankful for all the support I have from my family and friends back home. I feel very blessed.