A glimpse of Namibia

This was one of the ladies at the open market here in Katatura. She was a sweetie. Emily and Mike from our group bought some grubs from her and ate them for us. Don't know if I will ever get the courage to eat a grub.
This is Nate. We were in Katatura at the market and there was this lady braiding hair. We all talked him into having her do a few braids for him. She was a good sport and did it for him. He made sure to pay her. We all had a good laugh. A lot of the Namibian children thought it was the funniest thing to see a white person with braids.
This is another picture from the market. These men were grilling meat. They would slice off a bite size piece and hand it to us. We would then take th meat, dip it in salt and cayenne pepper and pop it in our mouths. Thank goodness for that typhoid shot, eh? The meat was good and so far so good. ;)


We have now been in Namibia since Saturday. The jetlag seems to be wearing off slowly. Most of us are sleeping through the night now. You will still see some of us taking cat naps as soon as we sit down though. It was a little tough in England. We were on a double decker tour bus and when we were just stopped at traffic lights and nothing really was worth seeing, we were gone.

The weather here is a lot colder than I had expected. When we got off the plane you could see your breath. So at nights and in the morning we are all bundled up. In the afternoons it warms up quite nicely and we shed our layers. Very similar to Wyoming summers.

We have been so spoiled. The people at the Polytechnic school have been so good to us. We have gone out to dinner every night this week. They have a driver for us that will take us anywhere we want to go. We are all staying in this really nice house right across the street from campus. I can't believe this is all in Africa. We are within walking distance to the "mall" and the grocery store. There is probably 300,000 people in Windhoek. A lot of them live in a place called Katatura. This is the poorer side of town. This is where the South African government forced the native people to live during the apartheid. They do have a closed sewage system and running water though. It truly could be a lot worse.