So freakin hot...

Wow, so I dont have much to say right now other than it is so uncomfortably warm right now! It reached into the lower 90's today, with the "discomfort index" (i guess the temperature it actually feels?) reaching 100. right now, it is 930 pm and i just checked weather.com and it says that it is still 85 degrees. I can usually deal quite well with heat, but this is damn near unbearable right now. I'm sleepy, but i cant even find any comfortable position on top of my bed right now because the cold side of my pillow disappears in like 2 seconds! Some thunderstorms and rain are supposed to come through tonight, and i can only hope that they come soon so i can get some sleep!

In other news, for valentines day our house is doing a secret valentine exchange. we all put our names in and then drew someones name out of the pile to give gifts to. i decided to go old school, so i made my valentine a good ol' construction paper + glitter + macaroni + puff paint card. i also got her a super-classy single serving can of champagne and some chocolate and a stuffed bear. everyone in the house is going all out on this... people have gotten crazy cards and balloons with presents stuffed in them and flowers delivered and all kinda of amazing stuff. i have put the word out there that whoever my secrent valentine is i would appreciate a puppy or a dog, but somehow i do not think that's happening...

Today we had the first meeting with Isilimela and Bellville together to figure out there buddies and work on a few activities (we met outside in the middle of the afternoon- sooooooooooo hot), and then on Saturday the Roosevelt group arrives. I'm pretty sure i'm going to be busy beyond belief from the 16th of Feb when they arrive to the 29th when they leave! Tomorrow most of our group is going to go up table mountain for sunset for v-day :) Some of the more adventurous in our group are climbing it-- being that more people have died on table mountian than on everest....and being that I am not such an adventurous person, I am taking the cable car up :)

Anyway, i'll leave you guys with a few more pictures from along the trip since i might not be able to update for a while:

Margaret and I at the poetry festival that our whole group went to a few weekends ago at Spier

Wine and cheese tasting two Sundays ago

Georgia (our teacher) and I walking to the beach in Port Elizabeth this past weekend

one of the Kudu that we saw at Addo last weekend

another elephant picture from Addo...i seriously took so many pictures there that i could make a book at this point

bunch of elephants at the watering whole with a warthog in the foreground. seriously...i have so many animal pictures!!! i wish i could put them all up here!
the endangered flightless dung beetle (i'm not making this up!!!) it is illegal to run over these or step on these in the national park

And lastley, (in order) me, our tour guide, Joy, and Ashley in Addo.

Wish me luck on getting sleep now!