It was definitely an unusual birthday. We started celebrating on
Thursday when Allison and Kelly (two other Tsumeb volunteers)
surprised me with a carrot cake (organized by Dylan)! The cake was
delicious. Then on Friday, Dylan surprised me with a traditional
birthday treasure hunt leading to a sweet African wall hanging I'd
been wanting for our room (we immediately put it up, which involved
some sewing and finding a stick in our yard). Then on Saturday I was
treated to breakfast in bed (scrambled eggs and toast) and we had
apple crisp in the evening (along with lots of other good food, we
were trying to clean our fridge out). On Sunday (my actual birthday
now) we had oatmeal pancakes before we left to hike (hitchhike) to
Windhoek. We started hiking at 8:00 and arrived in Windhoek around
2:30...seemed like a pretty long trip. On the plus side, we then
joined the rest of our group at the Peace Corps office and got lots of
hugs and Happy Birthday's from them, as well as two packages my
parents had sent a while back! Then we were all driven to the
conference center where we'll be this week for training, and it is a
beautiful place! We're a little ways outside the city on top of a
mountain, so we have awesome views and it's very peaceful. Dylan and I
have our own room, which has its own bathroom, which has HOT water in
the shower! Fantastic. Also, free internet, as evidenced by this
email. We're pretty happy to be here!
So, good first birthday in Namibia. =)
Thursday when Allison and Kelly (two other Tsumeb volunteers)
surprised me with a carrot cake (organized by Dylan)! The cake was
delicious. Then on Friday, Dylan surprised me with a traditional
birthday treasure hunt leading to a sweet African wall hanging I'd
been wanting for our room (we immediately put it up, which involved
some sewing and finding a stick in our yard). Then on Saturday I was
treated to breakfast in bed (scrambled eggs and toast) and we had
apple crisp in the evening (along with lots of other good food, we
were trying to clean our fridge out). On Sunday (my actual birthday
now) we had oatmeal pancakes before we left to hike (hitchhike) to
Windhoek. We started hiking at 8:00 and arrived in Windhoek around
2:30...seemed like a pretty long trip. On the plus side, we then
joined the rest of our group at the Peace Corps office and got lots of
hugs and Happy Birthday's from them, as well as two packages my
parents had sent a while back! Then we were all driven to the
conference center where we'll be this week for training, and it is a
beautiful place! We're a little ways outside the city on top of a
mountain, so we have awesome views and it's very peaceful. Dylan and I
have our own room, which has its own bathroom, which has HOT water in
the shower! Fantastic. Also, free internet, as evidenced by this
email. We're pretty happy to be here!
So, good first birthday in Namibia. =)