Ten Days Later...

I still have a ton of work to be doing. I have a paper due each day this week. One is done, one is halfway, and one is NOT STARTED. *dies*

But come Wednesday afternoon, I'm free except for studying for finals!
It's incredibly exciting.

Food has been really annoying though. I have about ten recipes that I rotate through; usually on a very unusual schedule. For example, I plan to make the same soup I made earlier this week again tonight because I can't think of what else to make. It's rather annoying that I can't think of very many ideas that don't involve cheese. Suggestions?

It's cool that I can start planning for the end of the semester though. With any luck I'll be accomplished enough that I can cook traditional African foods for Thanksgiving. :_D Exciting. I also found a good recipe for brownies.

Okay, I'm going to go back and work on this paper. I'm just worried about getting poor grades, which I can't afford if I want to do masters and PhD....
Plus two of my finals are on the 4th and 6th of next month. DX bad timing

So now I'm going to pretend to work until I fall asleep at 4am and end up missing my 9am tut (THE LAST ONE EVER)
I'm also listening to the 500 rock songs of all time, and it's awesome.
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Now playing: Kiss - Shout it out Loud
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by the way guys, I'm out of postcards for the time being, so I apologize for those who have not received one......er....let me know if you really want one so I don't feel bad

I've been here a month

Let's see, so what's been going on in the past week? Good question.

My classes are definitely going to kill me with work. I am definitely going to have to dip into my savings. We will probably not have to use Portuguese during our three day trip to Mozambique. In any case, I know enough Spanish that I could get by in Portuguese.
Things close really early on Sunday. But the unofficial shop vendors sell the coolest stuff. But they are very pushy and you have to be good at walking away if you really don't intend to buy the item.
Ethiopian food is FANTASTIC. So is being able to order a bottle of wine for the table. Oh how I'll miss that when I come back (my wallet sure won't).
Everyone is obsessed with safety here. So no worries.
In terms of plans for the four weeks after the semester ends, there's a huge trip up to the equator and back down, but I still need to find out about that. Otherwise I can travel with my roommates and their friends. Yay!
We found another person to go with us on spring break. The plan is essentially to fly up to Durban, spend two days there, then go to Kruger for a two day safari, then take a bus to Maputo (capital of Mozambique) and stay there for three days and do all sorts of fun beach stuff. Then we'll take a bus back down to Johannesburg and spend a day there, then fly back to Cape Town. And have a ton of deadlines waiting for us. But yeah, it'll be awesome and way too expensive. Oh well.
My only worry is if I can get my assignments done in time for it. I'm not used to having strict deadlines like this.
I'll post some pictures once people put them online.

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Now playing: Backstreet Boys - Not For Me
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Tampons are tiny here

I have been sitting inside this weekend and working on stuff/watching LOTR b/c it's awesome.

The second roommate got back yesterday. His name is Mapamba and he's also Zimbabwean.

CLASSES TOMORROW!!!! *jumps up and down like a stupid fangirl*

I am such a geek

I registered for classes today, got my ID card, password for the school system, and found out where my classes are. All in all a pretty successful day.

5 - 12:00 to 12:45 - South African Political Thought and Traditions - four lectures, one double period tutorial per week
6 - 14:00 to 14:45 - Third World Politics - three lectures, one tutorial per week
7 - 15:00 to 15:45 - Urban Politics and Administration - three lectures, one tutorial per week
8 - 16:00 to 17:00 - Anthropology of Power and Wealth - three lectures, one tutorial per week

At 13:00 is Meridian, which is essentially lunch.

Each week is called a lecture series. The tutorials are essentially supplements to class (but required) where they split up the class into smaller groups of about 20.

They overrode the class limit on Third World Politics and I'm so excited that I get to take it now.

I can't wait for Monday.

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Whatever Senele is playing loudly while Smiley does the dishes.

Then he killed the crocodile...

I've been having weird dreams ever since I got here.

First night: Creepy alien person staring at me

Second night: (I apologize in advance for any emotional distress revealing this may cause) I woke up crying because I had dreamed that Carrie had died but my main thought was, oh, now I have reason to get a tattoo. Also had to do with driving on the wrong side of the street.

Third night: Definitely had some kind of Peter Pan dream that probably had to do with peanut butter and I know there was a van in there somewhere and we were in a parking lot and there was also a thief....but then there was a waterfall with a little cavern and there was a crocodile and we killed it with a knife after scaring away the bad guys so they'd never come back....and it was a gymnastics building parking lot.....

All in all it was a VERY strange dream.

Since then I've just been waking up at 7 or 8am every morning, which is strange enough.

I finally found a fifty cent piece!

The way the internet works is this:

There are three routers on each side of the dorm (apparently). We connect via the wifi and have to buy credits in order to access the internet. It's calculated by megabyte, essentially equaling out to R.30 per megabyte. It feels like I've been using a lot of credits, but I paid $77 for internet as it's discounted the more you buy, and I've only spent a couple dollars of the credit. Kinda nice. Facebook eats up megs, as does looking at pictures. Video is out of the question.

I miss Family Guy and regret not downloading all the seasons. Poor judgement.

I'm currently charging my camera battery so I can take pictures of the flat.

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Now playing: Darren Hayes - The Sun Is Always Blinding Me
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