You Can't Take the Sky From Me
hello sistersister and hikmet and anyone else reading,
how are things? i hope you are enjoying the end of summer. get in all those park runs, picnics and swimming you can.
it is getting hot here. so, i am enjoying all the cool nights and relatively sweat-free days i can. life here has been good. i want to say the term ended up well. and i guess it has. exams kind of sucked the life from me. exams and staff meetings. why we need to have a concensus and discuss (for an hour and a half?!) about the psychology of chickens, is beyond me. i don't know how chickens behave or think, and when it comes down to it, i don't really care.
we have our school reunion this holiday. that is why all the meeting and chicken debates. and debates on how we should serve food, debates on where we should sit, debates on if the letters are okay, debates on what should cover the table, detabes on....well, everything.
sitting through daily staff meeting and watching learners write exams would suck some life out of just about anyone. you want to debate that? fine, i'll say you win. i am on holiday, and no more debating for me :)
i am looking forward to a few days in windhoek and really, really, really looking forward to durban. after holiday, it is back to term three. i have a few things i want to accomplish this term, so it is going to be a "hit the ground running" start. let's hope everything works out. my little volunteer heart will be a little sad if they don't. i want to take a relay team to the swakopmund marathon, continue with my club (continue and improve upon), try and get some computers for school (crossing my fingers on that one) and get as many learners to understand as possible. semi-ambitious and very hopeful, i know. just got to keep trucking.
time for me to hand over the computer. i hope life is grand.
take care!
-abby
p.s. the title is from the opening song of a show i've watched. when i have bad days and when i have good days, the sunsets here always give me something to smile about. evening is becoming my favorite time of day. it is when i run and so peaceful....a great time to think
how are things? i hope you are enjoying the end of summer. get in all those park runs, picnics and swimming you can.
it is getting hot here. so, i am enjoying all the cool nights and relatively sweat-free days i can. life here has been good. i want to say the term ended up well. and i guess it has. exams kind of sucked the life from me. exams and staff meetings. why we need to have a concensus and discuss (for an hour and a half?!) about the psychology of chickens, is beyond me. i don't know how chickens behave or think, and when it comes down to it, i don't really care.
we have our school reunion this holiday. that is why all the meeting and chicken debates. and debates on how we should serve food, debates on where we should sit, debates on if the letters are okay, debates on what should cover the table, detabes on....well, everything.
sitting through daily staff meeting and watching learners write exams would suck some life out of just about anyone. you want to debate that? fine, i'll say you win. i am on holiday, and no more debating for me :)
i am looking forward to a few days in windhoek and really, really, really looking forward to durban. after holiday, it is back to term three. i have a few things i want to accomplish this term, so it is going to be a "hit the ground running" start. let's hope everything works out. my little volunteer heart will be a little sad if they don't. i want to take a relay team to the swakopmund marathon, continue with my club (continue and improve upon), try and get some computers for school (crossing my fingers on that one) and get as many learners to understand as possible. semi-ambitious and very hopeful, i know. just got to keep trucking.
time for me to hand over the computer. i hope life is grand.
take care!
-abby
p.s. the title is from the opening song of a show i've watched. when i have bad days and when i have good days, the sunsets here always give me something to smile about. evening is becoming my favorite time of day. it is when i run and so peaceful....a great time to think
posted by abby at 7:09 AM
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