4th week of classes!

This week has been a very good one. Every day here brings something new and fun. Saturday we went to see the Bushman's paintings. That involved a two hour drive to one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen, an hour long hike and then a tour of their paintings. The bus ride/hike was so much fun. All of us together probably took over 1000 pictures by the end of the trip. The paintings and all of that weren't that great, but the time we got to spend with one another, and the rocks we got to climb, and waterfalls we got to see were amazing.

Only bummer about that whole trip - I was looking at my camera and I accidentally deleted all of my photos! The ones from the previous week were also deleted because I didn't import them into my computer yet. I tried to figure out how they got deleted so I took another picture and reconfigured the memory card or something rather and it deleted so I figured that's what it was. After that, I Googled how to get them back and they said if it happened don't reconfigure the memory card and don't take any more pictures for the best chance at getting your pictures back. Oops, my bad.

We also had a guys dessert night so all the guys here (13 of us) went out for food/dessert. It was so fun. We went to this little restaurant where we sat outside and two 14-year old girls served us. They were crazy. One of them was running back and forth from the kitchen to our table. She was like the Road Runner and never stopped. It was a good night though and it was fun getting away with just the guys.

Monday we went on a field trip with my Zulu class. We got pen pals when we first started this semester and we have been writing letters back and forth in Zulu to 11th graders that our Zulu teacher also teaches. So today, we got to go to their classroom and meet them. Along with that, they made us different Zulu foods that they eat. Def. not the most appetizing meal ever. I ate some cow tongue, weird yogurt/feta sour cheese thing, and lots of other random foods. It was one of the first times here where I felt like we really got to interact with some of the Zulu people here so it was a ton of fun. They did some dancing for us and we got to talk with our pen pal in person.

This next Saturday we're going on a canopy tour where we get to go on a zip line and what not and I'm super stoked! Only bummer is we have to leave here at 6:45am. There are two groups going at different times, but during sign-ups we were on our Zulu field trip so everyone else took the later time!

One of my favorite things about classes here is every time we go into class they have a water bottle for each of us on our desks and a little bowl of mints! I'm going to miss this when going back to school!