Since today is Sunday we decided to check out the local LDS church. First off, Mike said it was "three blocks away". Riiiiiiiight. I don't know what freaky blocks he was referencing but it was a lot further than three blocks.
I can confirm that the church is the same in Namibia. The chapel is a nice little chapel and the members are few, I would say around 200 members. Everyone was so nice to us. There were four sister missionaries, six Elders and a senior missionary couple. I asked how the mission work is going.
They said everyone has been so nice to them. It is a lot different than the people in South Africa. It's hard to make contacts there. So Namibia has been a lot more receptive. She said some of the members feed them. You can tell they are itching to go out and see some of Namibia. I think I made them feel bad when I told them we were going to Swakop and then to Etosha.
One of the girls was from Littleton, CO and the other was from Provo, Utah. They were really happy to here American accents. One girl sort of picked up a weird accent, I wanted to tease her.
So here is my cafeteria update. Every meal has improved. I found some Heinz ketchup here because their "tomato sauce" sucks so bad. Jeremiah accidently left it on the table and the next day the lunch ladies have been placing it on our table for us.
Here's the thing, they set up our table with white table clothes, arranged silverware and the food is on silver platters. Now that the students are back in the dorms because school starts tomorrow, we all feel a little uneasy at the hospitality. We feel like ambassadors or something. We told them that we would eat like the rest of the students and it wasn't necessary. We do tell them how grateful we are and all that. They said they really enjoy doing that for us.
We will be eating on metal trays and eating without the fancy linens tomorrow. We can blend in with the rest of the cafeteria goers. We are going to see if we can't eat with the other students in there too. We like to mingle with the others and get to know everyone. We feel a little exclusive at the other table and we didn't want to look unapproachable to everyone.
All in all things are going smoothly. After some hassle with DHL the equipment arrived today. It was supposed to go from SLC to Chicago to Frankfurt and then Windhoek. Chicago messed it up and it got sent to Luxembourg and they didn't know what to do with it and it ended sitting in Joberg for five days. Ten days late it arrived here.
Well that is the latest from down here. Tomorrow we will start getting assignments to what we will be doing for the next few weeks. Basically doing what our skills and interests are. I hope that doesn't mean I am stuck on database work. I like archiving, but not to be stuck labeling things. We'll see.
Ciao for now.
Em
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