Wednesday, May 2, 2007

I can't believe it is May already!! Time here is going entirely too fast! I finished classes on May 25th and then have a final on June 1, 5, and 14 before I leave for my trip on the 17th. I'm trying to plan another smaller trip between the 5th and 14th too, possibly to Lesotho! I'm anxious to get out and do something because I spent a lot of the long weekend at home watching movies, playing cards, and baking banana bread with my roommates. The weather was cold and rainy, which really took away a lot of our motivation for doing anything, plus a lot of things were closed because of the public holidays. But even though I don't think the temperature got below 50, it feels a lot colder here because the houses are not built for cold weather and it's the same temperature inside as outside! It's not too bad, but it was very appealing to stay home with blankets and hot chocolate this weekend. I did do some shopping in the city though, and we made it to a rugby game, which was really fun and our team won! The stadium is literally right down the road from us, so it's always really noisy and crazy when there is a game. In other news, our internet has been out for the last week and, according to telekom, the super inefficient phone company that has a monopoly in the country, they have no record of us ever having an internet line and think they can't fix it for at least two more weeks. It's not that big of a deal, but it would be nice for school because we all have research papers to write as the semester winds down, but oh well. I am learning to live without internet :) But I apologize if I'm slower with answering emails, but they school internet is usually fine, although painfully slow. Enough complaining! Despite the bad weather (it got back up into the 70s yesterday though! woo!) and lack of internet, everything else is great! It's going to be very hard to leave, but I'll be happy to see everyone!

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