Namibian men love their bucket hats

...At first I thought it was just our driver, Passat, but nope. It's all of them. In fact, if I had thought of it earlier, I would have started a photography book on hat wear in Namibia. I started my homestay Thursday (more on that later), and when we went to church I felt uncomfortable because I was the only woman without a hat. But then I realized I was the only non-black person there, so whatever attention I was going to draw to myself was not going to be because of my lack of headgear.
So it has been homestay since Thursday, which I am enjoying even though it is very different from our Soweto experience. I love that Lizzie is up the street, and we have been able to go to the gym a couple times as well. I love having host siblings my age, Saturday we went to a football match (Swaziland vs Namibia's Brave Warriors), which ended 1-all. Saturday night we had a family braai (bbq) which was a ton of fun, and Sunday was church and a 2 hour nap. I think that CGE students (or at least our group!) are nortorious for falling asleep everywhere, on sofas, in cars, going to bed at 8pm. It is only a matter of time before the jetlag/time change excuse is no longer applicable...
This week is also our first full week of classes, so we come back to the center in the morning and Lizzie and I take a taxi back at night. It means we've been pretty busy, today we had political science and our internship class. Tomorrow I have religion class for the first time, and we have to do a creative project/presentation on how we feel about religion and social change. It was actually a very interesting project to do (I still haven't decided what I'm going to say though...) because both topics are very relevant to me. Hopefully the class is equally interesting...
As for my internship, I have been getting more of a background to the organization the last couple of times I've been, and hopefully tomorrow I will be able to nail down what my specific project will be. It's a learning process, definitely!
Hopefully I will be able to update more coherently when I am in one place for a longer period of time....I am feeling very scattered!