I am now officially ...

An Omega community member and a resident in the Bwabwata Game Reserve. The village is located within the reserve's boundaries. It is two-thirty on a beautiful Saturday afternoon and I am sitting in back of the house, in the shade, eating boiled peanuts with a neighbor and the lady of that house in with which I will be staying in. The generator is off until 5 p.m. as is usual. That means there is no radio reception. By being in a remote location it is neccessary to have a dish that receives the radio waves then re-transmits them throughout the community. So it is left to actually making conversation (novel idea, huh?) amongst ourselves. That is a challenge at the moment seeing as I am learning Thimbukushu and they are speaking in that language and Rukungali, Oshiwambo, Khoidam, Damarra, and god knows what other language, because I don't. I just sit there smiling and shaking my head yes when I think I'm supposed to respond. Again only god knows how dumb I must look by just smiling and nodding yes all the time. So that was what day one is about, here, somewhere in the middle of the Bwabwata Game Reserve.