The Dungeon

Yay! I now have a permanent desk and office space, unfortunately nicknamed the Dungeon. It’s one large, rectangular room with desk space on three of the walls, file cabinets and windows on the other. The Dungeon is technically the basement of the LAC building, but since we’re on a hill, we have beautiful windows that let in a lot of natural light and we have plenty of workspace. We even have our own sink and bathroom! Coffee and tea are upstairs, though, but that makes for a good excuse to get outside.

Sharing the basement with me are Viktor and Lucia. Viktor is a paralegal who travels a lot, I’m not sure what exactly he is doing, but I’m pretty sure it involves an HIV education campaign in the Northern part of Namibia. Lucia is a student at University of Namibia also working with the AIDS Law Unit; she is absolutely gorgeous and very sweet. Her English is good, though I feel like a lot of things are lost in translation between us. I love some of her expressions, and she gets a kick out of me too. She thinks it is funny that I’m always “footing” (walking) everywhere, and she uses the expression “is it?” for almost everything, I think where I’d normally say “really?” or “wow!” or “that’s funny” or “you did?” Lucia says “is it.”