Things I have learned over the past few days

From the Plane

1) It takes about a half an hour to read a magazine.

2) Never trust airlines to cooperate when it comes to luggage.

3) It's easy to get overwhelmed when everything goes wrong.

4) A sleep schedule of no more than three hours at a time does not necessarily induce insanity....as far as I can tell.

5) My hair does not take well to combs.

6) It's a good idea to go to the bathroom prior to getting on the plane.

7) Monitors showing what the ground looks like outside the plane are AWESOME.

8) Airline food sucks ass.

9) While it's fun to talk to your neighbor on flights, I think I prefer refusing to acknowledge their existence.

10) They give free whiskey sample shots in airport liquor stores.

11) The Other Boleyn Girl is a shitty movie despite all it has going for it.

12) Zyrtec-D easy open tabs are NOT easy open.

13) A broken entertainment system on an eleven hour flight is not necessarily the end of the world.

14) The credit card swipey thing on public phones hates me. In every airport.

15) Airline blankets are surprisingly warm.

Upon Arrival

16) It's winter in Cape Town.

17) In the dark it looks like any other place with grass and trees.

18) Hotel restaurants price gouge.

19) I am considerate to the point of hypothermia.

20) Sleeping in the sun is NICE.

21) Travel converters get very very very hot.

22) Boys are more interesting than girls.

23) I really wish I had succeeded in packing the alarm clock.

24) The Rand is really pretty.

25) Wearing three different shades of blue is three times as depressing as wearing only one.

26) The Western Cape is having a severe water crisis.

27) Hand washing clothes requires soap in order to become properly clean.

28) R50 is equal to about $7.

29) There are weird birds here.

30) Buildings tend not to employ the use of heat.


Points for whoever can correctly guess my first meal here.

The person with the most points by the time I leave will get their my choice of ridiculous gift upon my return to the states.

Tomorrow is the first day of orientation and I have no idea what to expect. Hopefully my luggage. Unlikely though.

It's freezing here. I have no warm clothes. Kill me now.

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