Angola Mission Accomplished

By 5am, we just decided to get up, get in the car and turn on the heat. We also decided that we would drive to chase the sunrise and then go find the Angolan marker that we couldn’t find the day before. Kimberlee was also up and came with us. After driving around and taking various pictures of sunrise in action, we headed back to the Falls and decided to explore to the right of where we had parked the day before. We very quickly found the marker – mission accomplished. By 7:30a we were back at camp, packed up and on the road. On the way back to Ondangwa, we picked up three more hitchhikers – and again, nothing eventful happened. Before dropping Brian and Colleen at the hike point for a combi back to Omaruru, we stopped at KFC for breakfast again. It turns out that about 6 PCVs on their way back to their respective villages had the same idea. Eric, one of the summer volunteers that is in Swakop had initially been planning to come to Ruacana with us, but decided to go with a PCV acquantaince to a PCV party in Omuthiya, which is where Cat lives. Apparently, the PCV that had the party had over 40 people show up at her homestead for the weekend. She was already not on good terms with the owners of the homestead and they gave her until the end of the month to move out. She’s only got 6 months left of her service, but I don’t think that it is going to be easy for her to find another place to live.

Since it was still early in the day, Cat offered to drive me all the way to Edundja – so we took a detour through Oshikango, Odipo and then Edundja on the way to my homestead. Cat lives in teacher housing and doesn’t really like being there anymore than necessary. She shares a house with a teacher that barely talks to her. The next day at school, Johanna, one of the teachers at my school, asked if I drove by Omatala (the open air market in Oshikango) the day before. I’m telling you – I’m easy to spot and always being watched, wherever I go.