Life in Namibia
I am finally beginning to settle in to Namibian life now after a brief panic period not knowing at all what I was doing! I arrived into CCF the day after the previous ecologist had left, so I have had no one to mentor me whilst here, which is a bit of a scary prospect. I have also been pulled between two tasks whilst here: going to lectures for my course on human-wildlife conflict and learning about the tasks required of me as the ecologist. However, as 90% of my time has been spent in the course, I’ve barely had time to figure out what I’m meant to be doing elsewhere here. I keep having the students and interns I’m meant to be supervising coming up to me to ask for advice, although I have no idea what their projects are on or how I can be of assistance. I keep feeling that I’m slightly out of my depth here, but I hope things will get easier as the days go on. Fortunately yesterday I was able to spend the majority of the day in my office figuring out...