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Happy Easter everyone!!! Easter was different this year… no eggs to dye, no new spring dress to wear, no massive feast at my Aunts house, but it was a good holiday. I got up went to church for 4 ½ hours , came home and ate lunch with my family. It will be the last weekend I have here. Next week I move to my permanent site and I will officially start my two years of service. We have our swearing in ceremony on Friday where I will not only have to read a thank you letter in Rukwangali but also the oath thing will be in our target language. It’s a good thing I am now a master in my language and I am tested at an intermediate low. I am just hoping that my language skills do not go down over the next two years.

I will miss my host family here so much…they let me help cook and clean really I just get up and help otherwise I think they would wait on me hand and foot. Today I got home from school and my mom was still feeling sick so I offered to help so she could go sit down. I cut an onion WITH OUT crying and I peeled a potato with a knife. These may seem small to you but they are huge for me.

Every night we watch this show called Camila. It is a dubbed Spanish soap opera. Its absolutely horrible but so good at the same time. I will not lie I think I have gotten addicted. Here are the highlights… Camila is a widowed fiancé. Two men made a bet that one of them would take her virginity they bet half a million dollars. Then you meet Alejandro who is the love of her life and they fall madly in love, but because of this loser guy who has the bet about her the two love birds never seem to make it work out… hopefully soon they will get together and it will all be happy!! They keep getting close but there is always something that happens. It is totally a Chinese movie where the peoples lips don’t match with the words.

I have found that some people in Namibia, our trainers, like to play jokes on people. It was completely fine on April Fools Day when one of them sent me and Anika to Spar looking for our TM and then we waited for about ten minutes before someone told us it was April 1st. However today I was sucked into believing that they extended training for a week!! Do you know how horrible that would be, I mean I love the other volunteers and I will miss them SO much, but to have to wait another week to be sworn in … horrible!! So now I will have to question almost everything they tell us.

I have met some great people and hopefully I will not lose touch with them when I move away, but I am excited to work. It seems there are so many people in the community who want to help the youth here. I don’t think it will be easy but it is reassuring to know that there are people out there who will do a lot to help the kids.

We went to church on Sunday and I took my camera so I could video tape the childrens choir and the adult choir. They sound so great I only hope that my camera captured them the way I hear it. Everyone here is so talented musically because they can just hear the songs. I am hoping that I will pick up some of that talent and bring it home!

There is a commercial that comes on TV that has a catchy beat and a woman singing in it. Everyone you ask has seen this commercial. The funny thing is my year old sister, no matter where she is will come waddling into the room and start dancing to the beat of this commercial. Tonight she was sleeping in my dads arms and she heard the commercial, woke up and cried to be put down so she could dance and sing to the music. After it was over she walked back to my dad and fell back asleep… it was really cute and I am not doing it justice right now!

Happy Easter Everyone!!