My Week's Schedule

Accommodations:
I am currently living in a German Hostel just outside of Windhoek. There are about 8 people here including the German couple that owns the house. The people here can speak English but usually don’t (who could blame them they don’t need to!). I work with two very nice German girls: Claire and Kataria. The couple that owns the place is…unique. The woman is a very kind, chain smoking, eccentric with bright red hair and a tunic. The husband is a big built man with bleach blond dread locks for hair and every day, with out fail, he wears a khaki colored long sleeve button down shirt with brown leather hide shorts that could be mistaken as a speedo…and hiking boots. But they are very kind and sincere and you have to admire the type of people that march to the beat of their own drum. So I like them very much. (Plus they gave me a great deal on the price!) And the things I was greeted with at this German Hostel? 20 snakes (it is also a snake farm) 100 snake eggs, 3 violent and aggressive geese that quack at all hours of the day and night and will attack you if you get too close, 1 needy black cat that I am allergic to, 1 room in the garage because they were out if space in their house, 1 bucket to use for the bathroom at night, 1 bucket to heat my water in for the shower in the morning (don't get those two buckets confused!), 1 bed and mosquito net, 1 oil lamp, 1 lock box to put all my stuff in, and 1 pillow and blanket.
Monday:
6:00 am: wake up and fill a bucket of water from a well that I will then boil outside and use for my shower. Then get dressed and ready. Breakfast? Hot Tea and Toast
7:00 am: leave or work at the soup kitchen in Okahandja Park.
8 am – 1pm: working with kids in a playgroup/daycare. Ages 2-8
1 pm – 2 pm: Lunch (either toast soup or pap with hot tea)
2 pm - 5pm: Homework group and rape, HIV/AIDS, and family counseling
5 pm – bed: Keep myself occupied with a book or I go into the city. Dark at 6:00 pm and must be indoors.
Tuesday:
6:00 am: wake up and fill a bucket of water from a well that I will then boil outside and use for my shower. Then get dressed and ready. Breakfast? Hot Tea and Toast
7:00 am: Leave for work at the Bridging school.
8 am-10:30 am: Teach classes in English and math at a third and fourth grade level.
10:30 am – 11:30 am: Serve/eat lunch. Hot tea and toast
11:30 am-1:30: teach at the Bridging school. Sports. Gardening.
1:30pm – 5:30: Keep myself occupied with a book or I go into the city. Dark at 6:00 pm and must be indoors
6 pm – 7:30: Kickboxing classes at this random German mans backyard who apparently was a world champion.
8 pm – Bed: Keep myself occupied with a book or something.
Wednesday:
Same as Monday
Thursday:
Same as Tuesday
Friday:
Same as Tuesday and Thursday but without the kickboxing.
Saturday and Sunday:
Work at the soup kitchen at 2 pm but otherwise on my own.
Monday:
Start again