Some Random Thoughts After 1 Year:

• You can eat too much peanut butter
• Mosquitoes annoy me
• Stepping on a glass bottle is not that big of a deal
• Water is crucial to one's health
• Diarrhea is part of life in Namibia
• The standard size of a beer bottle should be 750ml
• People are people, no matter where you go
• Teaching is not easy
• Teaching in Namibia is really not easy
• Africa is a huge continent
• Kids too often fail once and instantly give up. The possibility of them failing another time is just too much to bear... It is a huge moment in one's life when s/he realizes that the possibility of succeeding once is worth so much more than the possibility of failing twice
• "Thought is free"
• There is a remarkable sense of African unity
• Everyone changes the world, whether they like it or not
• Time doesn't move forward or backward, fast or slow, it just is
• Dogs are edible
• We are works in progress
• Beware: do not eat a loaf of brown bread within 12 hours
• Uniqueness is engrained in each of us, but creativity is not; people sometimes need a kick-start in the art of harnessing uniqueness in order to use it constructively
• A really low population density yields a collection of attention-deprived people
• "Teach a man to fish..."
• Sitting in the back of a pickup truck going 80 mph is not as scary as you might think... It's actually pretty comfortable if you have a few bags to lay on
• Too much sand is a bad thing
• "People are just about as happy as they make their minds up to be"
• Africans like Justin Bieber more than Americans
• Hitch-hiking is kinda fun
• Speaking another language is difficult… I can't hate on those kids who cannot tell the difference between an 'l' and an 'r'
• A bull is worth as much as N$ 100 000 and it's also a collector's item!
• Ketchup + some Italian seasons ≈ tomato sauce
• Radio > TV
• I probably have numerous parasites currently living inside me and that fact doesn't really bother me
• "Oshifima makes you strong"
• ...but it makes you shit bricks
• It's cool knowing that every one of my elders in northern Namibia is either my father or mother (tate or meme)
• 90 degrees is not hot