help me one dollar

hello blog fans! a special hello to sister and holly's boy!!!

how are things on your side of the web? i hope all is well. these past few weeks have been great and these past few weeks sucked. i feel like i am really connecting and making a difference to some learners. if i don't teach them anything, at least i am a postive and steady factor in their lives. that is enough to keep me smiling everyday. i also silenced an entire class several times this past week with one stern reprimand. i can't tell you how empowering that felt to little quiet me. :)

at times, it is tough being a woman here. especially a small woman. most times, i just deal with the proposals and attention and demeaning comments/attitudes, but it gets trying. this past week i've had a lot of namibian men moments. it is enough to make a girl avoid all contact with men here. but i don't. i keep things very vanilla boys here and it works with the guys with are "friends". friends is in quotes because women and men don't really become friends like they do it the states. it just doesn't happen.

ending the blog on a happy note. one month from now i will be sunning myself on the beaches of durban :). i'm really looking forward to everything about this trip. i'm visiting evan. i've got a great traveling group (a bit big, but meh...it will make the 2 day bus ride more interesting). curry. sand. and vacation. what could be better?!

take care blog fans

-abby

p.s. "help me one dollar" is the standard i see a white person, white people give us stuff, calling i hear at least 10 times a week. sometimes more.