Sunday marked the end of Week #5 of our Pre-Service Training (PST) – and time for a day of rest at Gross Barmen, a new resort & conference center 25km out of Okahandja.
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Should you hire a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer?
Here’s an interesting article, worth reading to learn more about how we’re being trained and what we’re expected to do.
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Images of Life in Namibia
Breaking News: I’ll be living in Arandis
The first of two consecutive days of breaking news
The latest step in Peace Corps-Namibia’s “dance of the veils” occurred this afternoon. We all learned where we will shadow a current volunteer for a few days next week.
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We just passed a milestone!
It just dawned on me that yesterday marked one month since I left home. It seems so much longer.
May is Peace Corps’ Older American Month
I just learned in this article that May is “Older Americans Month” at the Peace Corps. I wonder if they’ll bake a cake.
Listen to this!
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, we begin our PST sessions with a number of songs to get the blood flowing. Starting with the national anthems (where you’ll hear the low energy in this audio clip), they get more and more rambunctious and end with stamping, swaying, dancing, clapping, finger-snapping and lots of laughing. It certainly wakes us up!
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Images of Life in Namibia
Some random photos from this past week…
