Leaving Okahontja for Windhoek
Good day, February 2nd. Well, it’s again time to leave Yenneke and Byron’s home in Okahontja and get on my way to Windhoek. And the first thing to do is to apply for a new passport, and Yenneke was helpful in getting me the papers that I needed to fill out and everything else.
Passport Application Adventures
So I get to Windhoek and find the honorary consul’s office in Imurgo Consulting. They consult all through Africa in regards to marketing and presence on the internet and everywhere else for many organizations. So I was able to put in my application and that was sent off before the end of the day after a few wranglings from The Hague after they received it. They had a few more questions like where were the visas that I obtained all through Africa. Oh, oh, I guess they were in my old passport. That’s the one that got stolen. Minor detail. Anyway, the last thing they wanted was to have proof of payment. So I scooted to their office before 5 o’clock and was able to arrange the payment.
Kate’s Nest House and Real Estate Studies
So then it was time to get to Kate’s Nest House, and then the rest of the week I really wanted to focus on getting my clock hours done. Yeah, even though you go away, clock hours for selling real estate, they keep going. So that means every 2 years you need to do classes that basically consists of 30 clock hours. A lot of repetition, things you kind of already certainly supposed to know, but such again, such it is. So Kate’s Nest House was a nice little place in Windhoek, not very expensive, and I found some interesting people there as well.
Meeting Fellow Travelers
I guess there’s interesting people everywhere. 2 guys were selling with Urban Timber, that was the name of the company, but they are selling play structures for little kids all through Namibia. Very, very much fun. And one of them is, uh, basically was living in Thailand for 7 years but ran out of money, so he needed to go do something. So he took over his dad’s building thing and is now training another relative to take over the business so, so he can go back to Thailand. I guess it sounds pretty good.
Chris from South Africa and Road Construction
And then a person named Chris who is from South Africa and has been building roads and other structures and things in South Africa but basically got out of it about 2 years ago, and now he’s wanting to get everything going in Namibia so he can uproot the systems that are in place there, which makes it pretty expensive for the country and benefits only a few people. Anyway, I learned a bit more about road construction and so many, many, many more things. He also is very much into a braai. Well, a braai is the Dutch word for charcoal for basically cooking food on a charcoal fire or wood fire. That’s a South African thing. So he helped us get some taste of that.
Hostel Life Reflections
I do enjoy staying in hostels just because, and everybody was very nice and appreciative and wasn’t too expensive. So it all worked out. That was all the way through Thursday, the 4th of February. Thank you for coming along.
