Our First Free Weekend at Home

Thursday night, came around… our last night with Mitchell before he and the professors and Chelsea leave back for home :( So for our last night, then entire group when out to Dylan’s which is a karaoke bar! We had so much fun singing and dancing. It was the first night this entire trip that we really got to go out for fun. Friday night was our first night by ourselves, just the eight of us. We went out to dinner at some tourist like restaurant. It was decorated like a restaurant in Disneyland – African safari themed. There were lots of things on the wall to look at. It was actually pretty cool but definitely a tourist restaurant. It was a nice night out with just the eight of us, but Saturday night was the most fun. We went to a bar/club called Vibe. At first we were the only people there… it was already 10 pm and no one was there! So we had made great friends with the bar tenders. Finally, it started to pick up and more people came in. We met some people who were so nice (and not creepy!) and talked with them throughout the night. It was actually really interesting because Megan was talking to a guy who is Namibian who went to a school in the nice town of Swakapmund. Megan was telling him about how hard it is to teach sometimes because we have to see so much corporal punishment.  He was shocked and appalled! He had no idea that this happened in public schools in Namibia. Corporal punishment is illegal in Namibia but it happens a lot in the schools that we teach in. His reaction was just so interesting because we just thought because it happens in our schools that it happens all throughout Namibia but it doesn’t and that’s actually a relief to us. Anyways, our Saturday night was so fun and turned out to be pretty insightful haha!