Just when you thought you were done with me... I'm in Senegal now. Awa is at school, the teachers here have been on strike for a month, so I'm not really sure what she does there, and me and Mama have already had about 7 circular conversations revolving around Ca va? and Oui Ca va. So in an effort to keep myself amused and out of the house I'm at the internet. I'm not going to lie, that I was less than excited about coming here at first. I seriously considered just staying on the plane, but knew there would be no hope of me ever seeing my luggage again. Saying goodbye to a bunch of sleepy people at 2:30 in the morning in the aisle of an airplane wasn't fun, but I pretty much had ... read more

I know two days in a row is a lot to handle, but I'm feeling slightly Thanksgiving inspired and and highly against the paper I have to write on Thanksgiving. Here's a poem by Maya Angelou that Rob, one of the other students also from UNC shared as a toast during our Thanksgiving. The title is also a quote from his mom, which was so fitting for our hodge podge family this Thanksgiving. Human Family I note the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us are serious, some thrive on comedy. Some declare their lives are lived as true profundity, and others claim they really live the real reality. The variety of our skin tones can confuse, bemuse, delight, brown and pink and beige and purple, tan and blue and white. I've sailed upon ... read more

So the developments of this week include a recent unhealthy love of eggs and meat. Atkins anyone? I really never used to like eggs...but while most people have internships or class Wednesday morning me and two other girls have open mornings since I go to my internship in the afternoon. We pretty much spend the entire week planning where we will eat breakfast on Wednesday mornings and how we will order our eggs. I'm in love with Wednesday mornings...we're gradually hitting all the best breakfast places in Windhoek, and I now know I like my eggs fried hard with toast. mmm. And the meat...somehow meat has become a perfectly acceptable snack. Come back really late at night, what do we do, fight for the left over processed chicken patties in the fridge. Go to a ... read more

So I'm finally getting around to finishing with the October escapades... Considering we were fully expecting to spend 9 hours at a gas station on the edge of a highway waiting for our bus to Zambia- the bunch of us going to Victoria Falls really lucked out. Three of the girls in our group were staying a night in the town we got dropped off in, so we were able to dump our stuff at their B&B and spend the afternoon checking email, relaxing and getting a nice big dinner before getting on a bus for 17 hours- which wasn't actually that bad- it was a double decker occassionally air conditioned bus, and they even had Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants playing which fulfilled my desire to completely veg out. So in your visual map of ... read more

There are nowhere near enough adjectives to describe the past three weeks... by now a lot of it has already started to blur together, but when class consists of climbing the 2nd tallest dune in the world, milking cows, going on safari and rafting the zambezi...how can you expect me to keep the adventures apart? It's been incredible...hands down the best 3 weeks of the semester. Most days were spent laughing that we get grades for this and thinking about what we'd be doing if we actually had to go to real classes back home. so for your attention span and mine as well i'm going to give it a shot to split these up, and read at your leisure. Swakopmund Rural Homestay Etosha Victoria Falls So we started our adventure several weeks ago at Swakopmund ... read more