This past week was a very eventful one. Friday we went to walk in the light, which is a ministry site we might work at. I think i might go with that one, im not sure yet. then had a mall run later that might. seriously, i go to the mall more here than i ever did back home. i guess its just a way to get off campus. then came back and relaxed for the rest of the night because the next day was durban day!!!
Saturday was a good break from school! The art class had to go to a museum in durban, so people who wanted to go to the beach to hang out got to. I did some major tanning. I also got super sunburnt on my stomach. so much for not ever burning. haha. Then when chanel got done with the art museum we
went to the market down the street and did some shopping. Got some things for people and for myself! it was super neat and ran into some interesting people. Then came back to the beach area and went to eat. we had PIZZA! so great. it tasted just like american pizza. i ate a whole mini pizza by myself. it was great!!!! i really miss pizza and ranch dressing...sigh.. haha. Then from there we went to the SHARKS RUGBY GAME!
i know absolutely nothing about the game, but it was really fun to watch! It really seemed like we are at a quid-itch match from harry potter...thats how all the posts and field were set up! haha. I had my sharks shirt and face-painting to really be a fan of something i knew nothing about! Our group of people we were sitting with started the wave too. which is such a great feeling!! then chanel and i got a "hotdog" i forget what you call them, but it was so good! i had a couple of sodas and it was pretty much a baseball game, minus the face painting and lame broadcasters.. haha. We left kinda late..i think we got home at 11pm. when i got back and went to my friends chalet for a bit and then came back to my room i found out I HAD THE CURSE OF THE ELEPHANT! basically all day sunday i could not be sarcastic and if i did say a remark, i would have to do 5 pushups. lame..!!
Sunday i was suppose to go to church, but i was not feeling too hot. so i decided to sleep in
Then after people got back from church, chanel and i went on a walk into hte game reserve. She has never been there before and we wanted to see zeh-bra! (zebra..thats how you say it again.) it was cool to see the zebra on her first time in there!!! then it was study time after that. I had a huge zulu test on monday, so i came back and went into antisocial mode to study enough. that then killed the night with a couple of episodes of the office. so good...haha. and after having the curse all day.... i think i did about... 80 push-ups. not cool, but it was so fun and entertaining to see what i would be if i wasn't sarcastic all day.
Monday was crazy long day of studying. All day i was at my desk going over verbs, phrases, nouns and everything
that had to deal with zulu in my mind. i was still not feeling to hot then, but it to happen. i even skipped dinner to study. what a long day of studying. When i went to take the test, it was so HARD. or so i thought. i ended up getting an A on it. only because i found out the grading scale is different here in SA. an A is 100-80. weird eh? so did really well on the test! then came back and unwinded by watching more office and chilin.
Tuesday was a long day. Woke up and did some emails and hw. then at like 11:45 me chanel and megan decided to go to the mall to eat lunch. it was so nice to get out and eat lunch someplace new. i mean we were at the mall, but it was to eat. i had RICE it was so nice. that rhymed. ha. but yeah i had stir fry and white rice. loved it! then after we walked around the mall and just killed some time before our class. After a long day at the mall, i was sooo pooped for class. im not even sure what we learned. haha then as usual at night came back and watched the office with chanel. good day!
Wed i got to go to the tala-game reserve with the bio class!! whoot whoot for not
anything to do during the days!!! haha. it was so much fun!!! i got to see alot of animals and
sorts of plains and the reserve was just amazing! i think i took about 180 pictures. i know.. camera whore! but it was great! i think i saw about 200 zebra!! so many just roaming around! i also saw a rhino and hippo and warthog. WHO SEES THAT! My roommate and i both went and realized how South Africa it was to be on a safari like car looking at animals, NOW we are in south africa. haha. we got back around 4 ish and i was sooo pooped!! and i had conversational zulu ( a class everyone takes) and then guess speaker Sean Wisedale! i was was excited for Sean to speak
to us. Basically he climbed the 7 tallest summits in the world! and he showed us his expedition of Mount everest! he is such a cool guy! i also bought his dvd. and had him sigh it. YEAH FOR AUTOGRAPHS! then after that had Laura Janes birthday party! so cute and fun!!! we totally suprised her like no other. Then we all went into he lecture room to play actual live mafia!!! so fun but scary!! i only played two rounds because i was just beat! Then watched the office and went to bed!!!
Thursday. i did a lot random hangouts and did some studying. I decided to go to the clinic to get checked out because i am still a bit sick. i have been having coughing attacks every night and thought i was just getting over being sick. turns out i almost had bronchitis. glad i went today instead of trying to fight it out! but the doc was kinda cute, so it made up for it. haha came back... and then basically went to class. long class...but it went by fast. Dinner then class again. only had class for about 40 min after dinner so that was nice.
now just pondering in my thoughts. have another big weekend ahead of me. everyone else's classes are ending this week and next, so it kinda sucks that i still will have class after our community engagement starts next week. but im excited to start serving the community more and actually being in places of need where ever i am placed.
thats all i really got. just trying to get better and figure out the future and what not. but excited for the next week and what it has to offer!
1 comment:
i like how one of the last things you said was that you are going to eat better... yet there's a picture of you holding a bottle of soy sauce! hahaha. HEY, and its the legit asian soy sauce bottle too! weird!
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