Random thought..

Well we are now on our way to South Africa! Namibia was awesome, I had so much fun there. And now I’m really excited for South Africa. An interesting thing I thought I’d write a little blurb about tonight is something I was emailing with my mom about, and I just finished writing a paper for one of my classes about. My tour guide for my sea and sand dunes trip was, as you can see from my pictures, a white guy. But he wasy saying that he was born and raised in Namibia. So really, he’s a white African. Not something you usually think about, right? I wondered then how far back he can trace his family history in Africa. Probably only a couple generations at most, but he considers himself African. I also asked him about the languages he speaks and he said that fluently he speaks Afrikaans, English, German, and a local native language. I asked which ones he learned in school and he said in school he was only taught in English and Afrikaans. I think Afrikaans is his first language, when he spoke English he had quite a thick accent. But there are many German speakers in Namibia because of the original colonization of the area by the Germans. Anyways there’s your little tidbit of history and culture for the day! Haha.

I hope all is well with everyone! Keep those emails coming so I have something to read :-)

*peace*