http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Nil2500/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Nil2500 en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:25:00 +0000 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:25:00 +0000 Itrsquos not easy being a heathenhellipespecially in a country as evangelical as Namibia. Religion well specifically Christianity is often a topic of conversation. Overall people are tolerant of different religions but just very curious about what denomination you are most Namibians are Lutheran thanks to German colonization. My face usually wrinkles up when people as me that question an http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Windhoek/blog-350220.html Itrsquos been long known that working is for chumps. Irsquove always struggled with the idea of being a coffeeaddicted worker zombie who proclaims Wednesdays to be lsquohump daysrsquo or whose reply to lsquohow was your longweekendrdquo is ldquonot long enough hahayukyukstick that rusty tack in my eye pleaseyukrdquo. In my head coming to Namibia was to be a 6month holiday http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Windhoek/blog-345828.html Irsquom having a really good time in Namibia. I met another Canadian intern and we were talking about how lucky we are to be in Windhoek. A lot of interns have been sent to small remote towns and villages while the two of us are sitting pretty in a big city shopping hitting up restaurants cafs and concerts. I really am not for want here. Everything I need I can find in terms of shopping. A http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Windhoek/blog-339245.html I was invited to the opening ceremonies of the A Gams ya go head and pronounce that Arts and Cultural Festival. The Prime Minister of Namibia was there to open the festival and he said something I quite liked With culture we are all equal. It was a pretty fun time with all of Namibia's ethnic groups represented in song and dance. Even German colonial culture was celebrated. There wer http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Windhoek/blog-327856.html So Irsquom living in a homestay in Windhoek. The family is really nice. The mother whom I call Aunty takes pretty good care of me making sure Irsquom fed and clean and such. Itrsquos quite the pampering I must admit. I have all the luxuries of home except for one thing no showerhead and itrsquos killing me Bathing is gross. I have yet to figure out how to properly clean yourself i http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Windhoek/blog-327346.html It has been a week since I arrived in Windhoek Namibia. The journey from Toronto via Washington DC via Johannesburg via Narnia was tiresome to say the least. Huddled in my cramped seat I pondered various medieval torture techniques and how they held up against a 16hour plane ride in coach. As I wiggled my toes relentlessly trying to stop the onset of deep vein thrombosis there werenrsquot http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Windhoek/blog-326192.html