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A Chair in the Shade
I came back to Namibia and on day two of my visit, I found a bright orange and black striped centipede on the pavement. My eyes filled with tears. Not out of fear. Not out of worry. Not because this very venomous insect was right below my open-toed sandals. But out of sentiment. I cried…
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Signing Off: A Final Reflection
Two years can feel as brief as a Namibian rolling stop at a busy 4-way, and as long as the 700 km drive from Windhoek to Fish River Canyon in a car that breaks down every 30 minutes. It’s short enough to remember the feeling of leaving like it was yesterday, yet long enough to…
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My Holy Ground – A Trip to the Motherland
They say distance makes the heart grow fonder, but it has my heart split across the globe. Not in the way that it is broken, just in the way that some of it is here in Namibia, some at home in the States, and some in the motherland of India. All are beating, but none…
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Fat Is Not a Bad Word
“What is one thing about Namibia you used to hate, that now you love?” Billy, one of our Peace Corps language teachers asked me, Todd, and Colin to ponder and respond to this question. It got me thinking, and I landed on this… Fat Is Not a Bad Word Growing up in the States, the…
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FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD AGAIN…
Namaste, kaume kange n’ofamili yange! (Hello, my friends and family!) My greetings here at site have come full circle and my memes (aunties) have switched from greeting me in their mother tongue of Oshiwambo to greeting me instead in my family’s mother tongue of Hindi. Months and months have gone by, and I think weekly…
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Living My Best Life
Metisa (Damara Greeting)! I know it has been a while since my last blog post. I get asked frequently when I’ll post next, and to be completely honest, I have struggled with this latest piece. In part the delay is due to being busy in my day to day life. But in large, the delay…
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Let’s Talk Business
One month of service down, twenty-three to go. The time has been flying in this paradise, called Tokerwa, where I reside and work. For safety reasons, I will be referring to my place of work as Tokerwa. This is not the real name of my organization, but for this blog, we will pretend it is.…
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The Start of Something New
Tashi ende ookaume kange! (How’s it going my friends). I’ve been operating on Africa time lately, so apologies on the delay in posting this update. As of November 17, it is officially official! We are Peace Corps Volunteers and done with training! This means my cohort has left the training camp in Okahandja and dispersed…
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We are All in This Together
And so it begins…the vulnerability cycle of a Peace Corps volunteer. It was Saturday October 1, the day all 16 Peace Corps volunteers in my cohort were leaving training in Okahandja for the week. We were on our way to visit our individual permanent sites that we will each be living in once we are…
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The Honeymoon Phase
Oshi li ongaipi! (Informal greeting, Oshikwanyama) Life has been good here in Peace Corps Training Namibia. They call the first couple of months the Honeymoon phase and I can certainly understand why. I’ll jump right into the content here, I hope you’re ready for some light updates, adorable pictures, and insightful learnings. UPDATES LANGUAGE PLACEMENT…
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