Packages are wonderful.

I got my first package from my birthday this weekend, from my parents! Did anyone else send packages? if so... I will eventually get them, PC just takes forever to got them to me. For now...I have to figure out my P.O. Box situation in Omuthiya. I had a box from the previous vol, but then, she had left all these fines on it and I thought I could just open up a new one on Feb 1st, but then there was a delay and now its March 1st. I hope that date doesn't change... if it does, i'll just give you the schools P.O. Box, b/c my friend whose box i was thinking about using actually has a bocx in Ongwediva, which is a bit far. I mean not really, but I dont wanna go up there every weekend to check my mail.

Anyways, so the last week or so has been kind of eventful... I started my peer health education program. Think kids staring at me blindly while most likely having no idea what I'm talking about. It was ok though, i think i will warm them up soon enough. We played this game where you spell your names with your hips b/c they really weren't talking. I think the next time I will have to be enthusiastic enough for all of us...they willllll talk to me! Next week, i'm going to do what some of the education volunteers did with their PE classes... play duck duck goose. ALthough, there is a fine line between enthusiastic and scary that I might cross if I'm not careful... I dont know why I feel like games will make them open up, but it seems like a good icebreaker, which we clearly needed. I also think I was aiming my curriculum for town kids... kids in Tsumeb were far more responsive to the types of activities I came up with, maybe just because they were able to express themselves better in english. Plus they've been through workshops and stuff before. Maybe it will be good... i can work out a curriculum that can be used universally for village kids. or maybe its just the fact that I dont know any Oshiwambo. AHHHHHH!.

Also, I went up to Ongwediva with Amon from the LAC on Monday, and on Tuesday we spend a couple hours going over what they want me to do, and it seems pretty exciting! They want me to hold these legal clinics where i just do intake for them... which worries me a little bit, but they said they would get someone to help me with the oshiwambo for a while so that will be nice, and I dont really have to dish out any legal advice. Although they have all these trainings they want to give to people, and I went to this meeting for community AIDS volunteers and it seems like they would be really open to it. Everyone basically wants to figure out how to make money, so information on grants and income generating projects seems like the best way to go and the LAC has some trainings on that! I mean, they need lots of things, but I can understand why their primary concern is finding employment...People have information, they just need a reason to put it into action...aka a real life with food on the table.

Well, we'll see... Gis might actually come up this weekend... a combination of things from parents meetings to broken water pipes in omuthiya have kept it from happening, but we are determined! Or at least I am. haha... ok that is all for now. Commentt pleaseee, it makes me feel good to know that ppl are still reading my blog, plus I wanna know what you think.