People keep asking about my map....

Today I woke up at 7am to Skype with Clintone and consequently get bombarded by IMs asking why I'm awake so early. I asked myself the same question.
Didn't get up to campus until around 10am when I proceeded to the library to do research for my impending doom paper. While I'm inside picking out books it starts raining outside. Great. I'm wearing just a wool sweater, which I would prefer not to get wet. So I pick out some books and sit down to do research.

....there's not really a story here so I'll skip ahead.....

Around 4pm, Sally (other Pomona kid I mentioned in another post) wanders into the library where we had previously decided to meet. It's not raining now apparently, so it's a good time to go to the grocery store. Woolworths is a higher-end store kinda like Whole Foods or any of those frou-frou places. It's too expensive so I just pick out a bunch of fruit, etc and go to pay. I ended up with 2 kilos of potatoes, at least a kilo of bananas, a kilo of oranges, 500 grams of carrots, and four ears of bicolored corn (hee) and it comes out to R55.70. That's roughly $7. DUDE.

It was totally not fun walking back with that because I was also carrying my bag with my laptop and cables and four books from the library (for those who are conversion-virginal, a kilo is roughly 2.5 pounds). I just about DIED. Not really. Because then we went shopping again because the place was just too expensive and I needed pasta. So we stopped at the res then walked up to Shoprite, which is just like Winn-dixie or Stater-bros or something low-end like that. So I get waaay too much food and now my back hurts a lot. Stupid.

Another point. The library closes at 6pm on Friday, then is open 10am to 2pm on Saturday, and not at all on Sunday. We have been told that we ought to print earlier rather than later because of technical problems being commonplace. So I have this paper due in my tutorial at 9am on Monday, but the print shop area opens at 8am. Problem much?

Apparently Smiley is going to let me into one of the computer labs in another faculty (I think he does computer science or something) on Sunday. Woo! But no more procrastination. Boo.

Tomorrow is wine-tasting so I had to turn down my roommates (who are going out to bars in Claremont) in favor of finishing this paper (which is totally not close to done and I need to go to bed soon...) and not having a hangover in time for drinking tomorrow morning.
This trip is actually organized by CIEE (the program organizers) so there is no direct fee. Awesome. At least they know to feed us first. But it's all the way in Stellenbosch, which is an hour away.

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