Hello, all! I hope everyone reading this had a very pleasant Valentine’s Day. My South African friends don’t seem very taken with the holiday. I tend to think that you like the day when you’re dating someone, but if you aren’t the silliness of the day tends to make you feel more alone. Nobody wants to watch everyone else be gushy and in love when they themselves are not, right? And while it’s nice to get flowers and chocolates from your lover boy, it is important to remember that he should be treating you great all year long- not just on February 14th. Despite my mixed feelings on the subject, Diane, Elsha, Nathan, Diane’s flatmate Phom, and I went out for dinner. We went down to the V & A Waterfront and ate at Quay Four. I am still amazed by how cheap it is to go out to dinner- and this was a pretty fancy place. I had Calamari and a Chenin Blanc wine and spent 130 rand, which equals about $19. Amazing, right?
In other news there is a lot of drama going on with the AU kids here in CT. No one at our school has their poop in a group. In short, the school doesn’t know how many credits we should be taking or how they will transfer back home. This seems like something they should have known before we ever arrived, right? We thought so too. So basically all of us will need to change our class schedules by either adding or dropping a class. We all have to do this by Friday… Apparently AU is “working on it.” What’s worse is that we discovered all of this by accident. We would never have known if one person hadn’t had a very simple question… and then we would have been screwed!
I’m going to drop by 8 am class Poverty, Development, and Globalization regardless of what happens with the credit debacle. I know it sounds bad, but it’s so early in the morning (I’ve been waking up at 6:45) and it’s a lot of work. Hopefully I will be able to get into a class called Sex, Love, and Taboo and if not I will be taking Advanced South African Politics. I’m really enjoying my class on Genocide. Right now we’re just defining it and doing all the boring stuff, but I think it will end up being one of my most favorite classes. I’m also taking Religion, Conflict, and Violence and the professor is hilarious. He’s from California so I’m having no trouble understanding his accent. Also, I’m quite sure that he’s smoked a fair amount of dope in his lifetime. To each his own.
The next few weeks are going to be crazy! I start yoga next week and will be doing that each Tuesday and Thursday evening. The Wine and Culture club also begins next Friday. I’m very excited for these clubs! This Sunday is a soccer game at UCT that we will be going to. The weekend after that we will be going to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 26 years. And by then I’ll be deep into my classes. Good news: Diane went to the hospital again yesterday and got her leg unwrapped and the lump is gone! They ended up draining more than 100 mL of blood out of the poor girl…
Doing all of this fun stuff makes me think of home pretty often. Especially the other day at Groote Constantia- I really wished I could shared that experience with my mommy. It was so beautiful. I did talk on the phone with Jenna the other day (I’m sure everyone reading this knows who I’m talking about when I say her name). The distance factor is definitely strange. When I’m in DC I know that I’m just a quick plane ride away if I need to get home for any particular reason, but here… that’s not going to happen. Which makes me pretty sad sometimes. By the way, check out the pictures I picniked of Jenna and I!
Well I will let you all go for now. I’m sure there are multiple emails awaiting my attention- damn this blasted credit conversion debacle!!
“Love who you love with all that you have and don’t waste the time that flies so fast.”
Britt.
PS- You’ll be happy to know that I haven’t swiped any dead cockroaches off of the kitchen counter in the past few days.
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