i'm here!

current weather:
78 degrees, cloudy with thunderstorms

i made it in one piece!

so i flew out friday morning from boston at around 7 and landed in JFK at around 8:30. when i first checked in my luggage, the jet blue staff told me that my suitcase was 11 pounds over the domestic flight limit... i obviously packed for an international flight, so of course i had a little more baggage. so i had to open my bag and stuff like 15 pounds of shoes and shirts into a small duffel bag that i also packed. good thing i bought that bag, or it's like a $50 fine.

when i got to JFK, i wandered around and got lost a little bit, then finally met up with janine, john, and brittany at our gate. we also ran into peter, boya, and george as the plane was boarding. we then took a 15 hour flight to johannesburg at 10:30, which maybe took forever (but they had free wine!). i don't remember much except waking up and trying to sleep every hour or so, and the little kids next to me being loud. my neck's also sore for not getting comfortable. ohh well.

our final flight was from johannesburg to windhoek, and it looked a little something like this.

they're squinting to make me feel a little more at home.

i think it was around this point that i finally realized that i was in AFRICA. just looking at all the shrubbery and plains, it's hard to confuse that with any other place! it was exciting for sure :)

there's probably a giraffe in this picture somewhere.

after landing in namibia, we drove about 40 minutes back to the bed and breakfast. the road back was basically a two-lane highway with endless trees and shrubbery on either side. oh, did i mention they drive on the left side?

and this is a picture of our luggage... safe, i know haha.

it would probably suck a lot if it started raining... oh wait. it did.

finally we arrived at our bed and breakfast. i'm living with three other dudes in a relatively small pad. it pretty much only supports four beds, one small cabinet, and one small table. turns out the bathrooms and showers are outside - there's two bathrooms and one shower room for the entire complex. so this will probably make things interesting.

my room with four single beds. this is as big as our room gets.

breakfast area / indoor lounge

small courtyard outside of our room

outdoor patio (and hammocks in the back!)

this is the pool where plan to train at.

also, internet here is really really slooooowwww. plus, it's not free so we have to pay for it by minute. i happened to only buy the 120 minute card, so i guess i don't really have a lot of time to spend on my computer today. it sucks that most of my minutes are spent waiting for a website to load, but whatever. hopefully i don't go broke from internet services. i apologize in advance for these spotty posts, i'm trying to write as fast as i can haha.

anyway, it's looking pretty good so far. tomorrow's our first official day here, so we'll be touring the city and things like that. so hopefully there'll be more posts and pictures to come!