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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Words you likely don't know...

It has been brought to my attention that I use vocabulary people are not used to. Therefore this is a pinned post that will explain everything I will ever say that someone does not understand. And slang. Because slang is fun.

res- residence hall
Jammie- big blue buses that run to campus every fifteen minutes from the res and other locations
flat- apartment
oh my word- hilarious expression people here say all the time
chode- do I really need to explain this?
just now- expression of time; roughly equivalent to any word regarding time that you can think of

to be updated at a later date...

Updates:

tut- tutorial, kinda like having a discussion based class in addition to lectures

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Why so serious?

'Lo
I've been too lazy to bring up this link and tell you guys about what's going on. When was my last post?

Friday
Went to Cavendish and got more warm stuff. Now all I have to do is start checking the goddamn weather before I leave in the morning (it rained today :( ). Then I watched some movie in the afternoon and went to bed....probably...

Saturday
Went with a group of people from various residences down to Fish Hook, a beach on the....I dunno what side of Cape Town...ocean side. We had lunch and took funny pictures. It was fun.

Sunday
Woke up late and read/took notes all day. I probably watched a movie or something, but I can't remember.

Monday
Had class 9am to 5pm. Five hours. Was late (<5minutes) for every tutorial. So fun. Attempted to cook with meat for dinner.

Tuesday
Had class noon to 5pm. Walked down from campus to Pick and Pay, went grocery shopping, walked to Alma Road house and met up with Dawn (from Pomona), Ruth (she goes to Oxy), and Ken, the SOLmate who lives in the house with them. We walked to Cavendish to see Batman at around 8pm. BATMAN RULES THE WORLD. Then took a taxi back.

Today (Wednesday, for those of you keeping track)
Class from 9am to 5pm. Three hours. Alarm didn't go off, was almost late for tutorial because I didn't know where it was. Rain. Took Jammie back for shower b/c omg shower. People came to fumigate the beds. Wtf mate. Went back to campus for second class. Talked to Dawn and Evan (Arizona State) about spring break plans. Tried to rope Sally (also Pomona) into it. Think it worked. Felt sick from sandwich while doing reading for last class. Went to last class. Took Jammie back. Found out milk is spoiled. Am out of milk. Made peanut butter sandwich and banana on the side. Turned on computer...

And thus the week drew to a close. Tomorrow I only have two hours of class (after 2) but I do have a big assignment that I need to get started on. I have SO MUCH WORK this semester.

Oh well.

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