Gobabeb, again...

Wednesday, 24 January 2007

I want to start off by finishing my Gobabeb stories. After I finished writing Monday night, we had a great dinner and then all sat together by the fire to watch the sun set—comet still in view. Then some of our group busted out a guitar and started a little sing-a-long, complete with traditional Namibian songs. Two of the girls, Alexis and Pam, have fantastic voices, which made it all the more enjoyable to lie down on a big rock and look at the stars while they were singing. The Southern Cross came out for the first time since I arrived, so now I know what the Kiwi and Aussie flags are all about. After the fire started to dwindle and most everyone went to bed, Lexy, Reggie and I stayed up playing around on the guitar, making up songs and taking turns trying to play whatever. I think I might have to give learning the guitar another go, based on the quality of my playing (or lack thereof).

The ride home went better than I expected with our combi not really overheating too much. We also got to see a little wildlife along the way. A few ostriches were running parallel to our dirt road, so we ended up in a little race with them… we won. Alexis, Casey and I are aching to see some real African animals. There are quite a few springbok wandering around in the areas near Swakop, so they’ve kind of lost their novelty. We’ve got a trip to the Etosha Game Park planned with the Grade 6 students in August, so if I haven’t seen anything too exciting by then I’ll be more excited than the kids to see elephants, zebras, rhinos, lions, etc.

It looks like this is going to be a short entry, so feel free to take a minute and leave a comment (hint, hint). Hope things are going well wherever you are. Miss everyone lots.

Beau


“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
Glenn Clark