With Helen working on-call this weekend, I was invited to go on a "walk" with some of the VSO crowd in town - mainly Jorrit and Jesse, who are both from Holland.
I was expecting this "walk" to be of the Sunday afternoon sort, particularly when the heat is in the high 30's / low 40's, but apparently this is a 10 mile walk (we checked with the GPS) up to the nearest plateau so they can look back over the town.
Exhaustion is too mild a word - I had to stand in a cold shower for ten minutes afterwards just to try and get my body temperature down.
If you look in the photo, Opuwo is the town below the hill - in the distance!
PS, Helen sms'ed me while I was on the "walk" to say that she had helped to deliver baby that was stuck. And she managed to do it without vacuum or forceps - purely by hand. I'm not sure what that means, but I have a picture in my head of her covering the woman's nostrils, and blowing into her mouth!
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