And time marches on

 So, as per usual it's been quite the few days since my last correspondence. Sunday was very relaxed, we had a picnic lunch/house meeting in a beautiful park, and then some of the guys went to go try to find somewehre to watch the Liverpool soccer game--Sam is a huge fan. It was a bit of an adventure, but along the way we met an awesome cab driver who came into a place to check out if it was safe to watch in there, and then took us to somewehre else for free when it seemed a little shady. So now we've got a guy to call when we need rides. Made another friend later at the bar, Maggie and I talked to a guy who runs some Safari programs--he was really cool. 
Monday was the first day of my internship, and I was really nervous. But it turned out I just had to go in the afternoon, instead of all day, like i usually will on Mondays. So I got there and got shown around by the boss, Mary, an American perpetual volunteer.  She's spent the last 13 years running programs in different parts of the world, which is pretty cool. Most of the time, though, I just spent hanging out with the kids, mostly playing four-square, which was fun. They usually have class time in the afternoons, to try to get the kids a little extra help, but they're on school break right now, so they just played all afternoon. Next week, when school starts again, I am going to be teaching 4th graders English and math, which should be interesting--an experience to say the least. The kids are mostly poor and not doing very well in school, but they're at least a little motivated, because they have to choose to go to the program. It's tough, though, some of the kids have been through a lot. So yeah, that's my internship, more or less.  I went back Wednesday morning (I'll usually be going on wednesday afternoons, but the schedule was a little different yesterday) and did a little grunt work stapling and stuff, and then tutored a tenth grade girl in math and science. She was really nice, and clearly bright but hadn't been given much opportunity to learn.
Most of Tuesday we were at a team building retreat at a farm in the desert on the outskirts of town. It was really pretty out there. The program was a lot better than I had been expecting. It was cool to hear people's stories, and it was interesting because the program is (at least partially) about recognizing our privilege as a group, but that reminded me of my privilege within the group, which was an interesting realization. But yeah it was a fun time. We came back and just chilled, and then watched a movie for the third time in four nights. This time it was Matilda, which was fun, if not a little dorky.
So yesterday morning I went to my internship, as I described above, and learned that I'd be teaching, which is a little nerve-racking, but exciting. Then we came back and learned about our home-stay families and more about our expectations for them, and such. Then I did some reading for History class, which was this morning, and Development, which is tomorrow, and then a few of us went to the bar to celebrate out last night together for a little while. And that was really fun.
This morning was class. Which was long, even though we went to a museum for an hour in the middle. It was a museum about native peoples, and was kinda bad, clearly underfunded. It reminded me a little of the Mitchell Indian Museum in Evanston. Then we went back and talked more about different groups and general history of Namibia. It was interesting, but I was a little tired.
So, my homestay parents are coming in like 20 minutes to pick me up, which is kinda terrifying but also exciting. They live in Katatura and are a family of five, a 17 year old son, and two younger daughters (12 and 15, I believe). So that should be cool. It's ten days. It's a little weird that this is starting right as the normal schedule is also starting up.  But s'all good. It will be good to see another part of life--how different people live. I don't think we're going to have much time to get settled at any time. Every couple weeks we're doing something different. That's pretty cool, although I wouldn't mind a little more structure. Well, that's all ofr now, I need to finish getting all packed up for this homestay. I'll try to post at some point in the next few days, but don't know what my internet situation will be.
Thanks to everyone for reading!
--Jimmy