My Namibian Odyssey : Site Visit: Check

So I just got back from my site visit to Kamanjab! It was great to see where I will be living for the next two years. My new village is small and peaceful…yet also rowdy. Like the sign that says "Welcome to Kamanjab is larger than Kamanjab. I think that it will be a unique experience to live and work at a clinic in a very small village. The clinic compound is BEAUTIFUL. It’s the coolest looking clinic I have seen yet (even cooler than the hospital in nearby Outjo). My favorite thing to do is sit outside on the Clinic deck and just watch the life and scenes of Kamanjab (I’ll post a photo of my sitting spot in another blog). Is that too mushy? In a rural village you have more than enough time to think and contemplate the greater things in life, so I have a feeling that ya’ll will get a softer more thought out view of the world as I see it.

My flat is GINORMOUS!! It’s a two bedroom with a large seating area and kitchen. It also comes with a large back patio, which I have decided to equip with chairs of some kind. I have created a sofa with the two extra mattresses from the spare bedroom in order to fill my apartment with something so it isn’t so empty that it echoes! I have included photos so that ya’ll can see and I’ll post a video once I get settled and it doesn’t look like I’m a squatter in someone else’s home!

I think I’m going to like living the small village life, and it will save me LOADS of money. There are only two “convenience stores” and no ATM so I couldn’t even get money if I wanted to! I’m so happy that Crystal lives so close to me and also lives in my shopping town. I have to go to her town to do any kind of food shopping (and shopping in general) and, of course, eat at really delicious restaurants! The other bright side is that with rare access to food and money and having more than enough time I should be able to get my workout on and get ripped with Tony Horton in P90X.

For now I am happy to be home in Okahandja with my PC family. It’s funny cause they described PC as taking PCV’s away from family and friends, giving us a new PC family and then they take us away from each other to different areas of the country. I am not sure what I am going to do when my PC family and I separate. Hopefully they’ll visit me and I will visit them in return.