10 days till i leave, 11 till i'm home

Alright, so as usual it has been forever since i updated last! i'll just have to do a quick day-by-day at this point.

Tuesday the 26th: All piled in minibuses to go downtown and see Woza Albert. Unfortunitely, it had sold out in the 1 days since we last checked ticket availability. Trekked back home to Obs and went out to the sushi restaurant in the neighborhood.

Wed the 27th: Sat around and did a lot of nothing. Did some laundry. Read a book. Sometimes its really nice just to sit at home

Thurs the 28th: Went to class, ran last-minute errands for the HFB community celebration. Went to Isilimela after school and set up the photographs and collages in the room and worked on piecing together the final performance with all 3 schools. Awesome final performance, then all of the CHID students booked it out of there because we had to go to dinner for Joy's birthday. We piled 23 people plus a driver into our kombi (minibus). Illegal? yes. Hilarious? yes.

I sat on the floor between the driver and front passenger seet with several peoples' feet all over me :) Everyone was either sitting on top of someone else or had someone else on top of them or some combination of the two. We all dressed up and then went out to dinner at this fun performance-dinner place where all the service staff are performers and did songs, skits, dances throughout it. Then, our whole house managed to get in a fight- I retreated and went home.

Fri the 29th- Went to class, then thanked the god that I dont believe in that Roosevelt students/teachers are leaving town and I have far less things to do now. Bummed around Obs some more. Took the cable car up table mountain with my roommate, Rebecca, and another girl in the house Katie (her full name is Kathryn spelled just like mine!) to watch the sunset. it was amazing!!!

And all the clouds starting to come over the top of the mountain were beautiful! (they're known as the table cloth) I think i took about 60 pictures of them alone Went to the sushi place in our neighborhood again (vegetarian sushi is so refreshing! given all the oily pastas and pizzas around here, i've been craving sushi a lot lately) and had a great dinner with the 3 of us.

Saturday the 1st: Woke up fairly early, read some, worked on my journal/scrapbook some, waited for most everyone else to wake up (they went out the night before....) and then we piled ourselves into a taxi and headed down to cape town's pride parade! it was quite lovely, although smaller than seattle's. (and from what i hear i dont think anything could ever compare to san fran's) We ended up joining the parade, and then after having lunch we went to the carnival afterwards and enjoyed some music and wine before heading home.

Sunday the 2nd: Woke up really really really early to be out of the house by 630 am to go canyoning. (walking/abseiling down a canyon with waterfalls in it) it was scary as hell, and, me being me, i managed to hurt my knee fairly badly. i got half carried down, half forced down the mountain. i think the best pep-talk i ever had was when i was sitting at the bottom of one of the waterfalls crying in pain and they told me there was no other way down. there's no cell service, and they cant do helicopter rescues. thus, i made it down. however, i did have to be lowered down the last waterfall because i couldnt even get myself down. and people took turns giving me piggy-back rides back to the cars

Monday the 3rd: No class (yay!) I got escorted by two of the girls in our house to the doctors office. He said that one of the tendons in my knee was extremely inflamed and might have a small tear in it. Also, my knee cap was really gritty feeling, and got irritated, but was probably just acting up due to previous injury. He prescribed me seriously strong anti-inflammatory medication and told me to stay of my feet for a few days, and if it didnt start feeling significantly better i had to go see the orthopedic doctor. Bummed around the house all day being bored while everyone else was at the beach mostly. :(

Tuesday the 4th: Swelling in the knee went considerably down, and I could even put a little weight on that leg again! Still, no class. Still, I had to stay home. Also quite unfortunate: the main side effects of the anti-inflammatories made me sick as a dog. I had quite a rough night on Tuesday.

Wednesday the 5th: Knee looked considerably better, could put a substantial amount of weight on it. Gave up on taking the prescribed anti-inflammatory because I did not need to feel that sick ever again. Switched to tylenol/ibuprofen. Recovered from the sever illness the night before with lots of bread and energade (gatorade). Cleaned my room and did laundry. Highlight of my trip: one of the friends we have met here,Maggie, is origionally from seattle, but lives here now---WITH HER DOG!!!!!!!!!! We went to the dog park yesterday with Naartjie (the dog), who is part pitbull part mutt of questionable descent. Naartjie also has a thing for ears like Louisa, so i got TONS of kisses and ear nibbles. After that, I went to sushi (yet again- haha) with my roommate. Also, it was sooooo warm!!! It hit about 32 degrees (90), but there was no wind to go along with it.

Thursday the 6th (today!): I got woken up lastnight at about 330 am by 1/2 of our house coming home drunk as usual, being loud, and banging around making food in the kitchen. I seriously cannot wait to go home to my nice beautiful bed and only the sound of dog noises to wake me up! Dog noises at least come with fun dogs, these noises just come with annoying drunk people. We have class at 10 this morning, and then those of us who worked with hfb are headed to Isilimela to have a quick debrief with them and pick up some film.

I dont know about our plans for tonight or friday, but on saturday i'm going out to see more animals!!! 3 of us are headed out to do another safari-thing. i just cannot get enough of seeing animals! On Sunday our whole group is headed to boulders beach to start our end of the quarter retreat, and then we are getting back on tuesday afternoon. the time is flying by so quickely now!

Anyway, after that long, long wrap-up, I hope you guys are still awake!!! Hope all is well, and I'll be seeing a lot of you soon......