VIRGO

"Your passions are slow to heat up but take forever to cool down" -Card about Virgos at the Voortrekker Monument Gift Store

1/28 and 1/29
So Many shacks, so much space: why do people think we can "own" land? It's SO vast and has SO many rules of its own (Hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc) Why can't we just live? Why do we divide things? "You think you own whatever land you land on..." I mean, I know it's corny, but it's SO true; especially here!

1/28/10

So we arrived in Windhoek yesterday and they promptly made us aware of all the billions of safety concerns we can have while we're here.

Saying Goodbye was hard. Right at the end of Jo'Burg I had a discussion with one of our drivers that made me fall in Love with the city even more than I already had. He explained that, in his experience, the husband builds the house but it's the wife/mom who really makes it a Home. Without his wife, he said, he doesn't feel the same. He can make himself food or watch some T.V., but it's not the same without her there. It was in this conversation I had mentiuoned I knew how much the homestay meant to the families and if the mom had been present during our stay, it might have been different.

Ugh.

I can't describe in words what the conversation was like, it just - it was like a bonding experience. We both just 'got'each other.

These words aren't right...it's really hard to explain how I felt in Jo'Burg. It was like Home. It was like I was meant to be there.

I just don't feel the same here in Namibia. I've only been here a day, but something feels so much different. Maybe I'm homesick, mabe I'm tired, maybe I'm dehydrated...it could be anything but I just don't feel as "at home" as I did in Jo'Burg, especially towards the people taking SO very good care of us.

(P.S. after about 2 weeks of being here now, I'm feeling much better. We're SO busy! I've met some AMAZING people here too, so don't you worry! Besides, I'll get to see a few people from Jo'Burg in Capetown, so YAY!)