Glamorous Only in Retrospect: 25 - 30th November

26, 27, 28, 29 & 30th of November

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Gumare

Steph:

We have been lounging around all week enjoying Jeff's company, a bed, internet, and the village experiences we were hoping to get all along. It's been really nice. Jeff's work day is filled with meetings and endless attempts of getting people involved in the community. He is so optimistic and really works hard to come up with new ways of helping everyone around him. His job description can't be summed up in one sentence. He does everything, from starting up new fundraising for people with disabilities, to helping form and organize a local volunteer group with all of it's meetings and events, to getting people info about starting their own businesses, to working to get grants from the govt to build a theatre to lure people away from the bar every weekend. And it's all out of pure initiative. Nobody tells him what he needs to do or by when. He goes out and finds out what needs to be done and does it. It's really quite inspirational. And it's been fun to be around all of this all week. We sat in on some volunteer meetings and helped make posters. Erik designed a poster for World Aids Day here in Gumare and I designed a logo for the Okavango Sub District. We tagged along to set up for a movie the volunteers set up for children and helped at a BBQ to raise funds for a charity Christmas Dinner. It's been really fun. Especially getting to know the volunteers. Moss, Ratanang, Reuben, OD and TMG are lovely people who are working to better their community. They still need some practice in actually doing everything they talk about and some organizational skills, but the heart is there and that's really all that counts, right? :) So yeah, it's been fun.

Other than that, we really have been just sleeping in, surfing the net, and eating like machines. I'm always hungry. Even more so than before.