Life's a Beach

heeeelllllllooooooo internet,

i have yet to tell anyone about this blog, so right now it is almost masturbatory. that might not be the correct usage of the word, but my english skills have been fading. kind of funny (not funny ha-ha) how fast you can lose something you don't really use. people can't understand proper english, so i don't speak proper english...and it just becomes natural. luckily, my num-chuck skills are still well preserved.

i have been on holiday for almost a month now. i like holiday, i like holiday a lot. i've started to get attached to my learners and am starting to almost-enjoy my site....but nothing beats traveling. getting out and seeing a different namibia is great. and it really is like traveling to another country.

i'll outline more of holiday later (maybe) but for now, it will be my trip to swapokmund. when you've been in hot dry ovamboland for the past couple of months, swakopmund is refreshing in sooo many ways. first off, it is cold! i wore a fleece most of the time. there is the ocean, there are these incredible sand dunes, and good food. walking along the beach never gets old.

seeing so many white people and so many tourists was a little odd. in a way it was nice not to stand out so much, but it was also a little disconcerting. mostly, because i didn't like being grouped as an uninterested tourist who isn't very nice, doesn't really see or experience anything past the cute shops and unoriginal knock-off american food. i hope i'm not becoming a snob...maybe i am.

anyways, time to grab some food. while in windhoek, get like an american :) hope life in grand!

-abby