Busy, busy, busy!

So its been a while so lets see if we can catch up on the last few weeks!

School has been going good but was a little hectic the last two weeks. Ive had two tests and a big paper due. I passed my Afrikaans test just fine and it was really easy. My marketing test went really well also and I passed it with a 70% which is actually pretty good apparently cause alot of people in the class failed it. I had a test in my Tourism Destination class as well and I think it went okay...and I had a paper due in that class on ecotourism and sustainable development and it went good I hope. The way they do papers here is kindof strange. I had to have a table of contents and rather than make the paper nice and flowy, I had to seperate it into 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, and so on and it was just really REALLY weird to write like that. Now I have a good two week stretch of nothing being due besides a paper on April 1st which ought to be really fun because I think I have to go to a car rental agency here and interview a worker there on some stuff.

Me and Matt have been hanging out alot with Renae from St. Ben's in MN. Shes a cool girl and shes the only person from St. Bens/St. John's here that I actually can stand so far. Shes not snooty or any think like all the others I've met and shes pretty much a permanant fixture in our flat now...she even has a bunch of stuff in our fridge! She's also reignited me and matt's love for that maverick Sarah Palin haha.

This past weeknd Matt, Abby, Khrystyna, Bitsy, and I rented a BMW (and it was actually an automatic! they only drive stupid maunals here) and we had a lovely long weekend since monday was a holiday. We drove out to Grahamstown on saturday, which is like an hour or so inland from P.E. It's a cute little city with alot of steepled churches in a valley and the views from above the city were really beautiful. The funnest part of that whole day was just being able to drive again for the first time in two months, and it actually wasnt that hard to drive on the other side of the road and car! On sunday we went out to Sardinia Bay which is the gorgous beach surrounded by sand dunes just west of P.E., and then we headed over to Jeffreys Bay again to go horseback riding---that didn't go quite as well. My horse was a mean little thing that would NOT stop running even when I pulled back on the thinggys and yelled whoa and stop. Long story short my feet fell out of the sterrups on the beach and I got kicked off the horse and left completely behind by my horse and the guides and was forced to walk an hour down this empty beach, over rolling sand dunes, and through the woods back to the horse place. My body HURTS. I think I might just have to go back and kill that stupid animal. Needless to say I needed a drink after that ordeal so I went out to Oyster Catcher that night with the gang till 3AM! Monday we went out to Kragga Kamma Animal Reserve where we saw Sprinkbok, Zeebras, Giraffes, and I got to pet a Cheetah! It was soooooo amazing seeing all those animals out in the wild and being just a cars length away from them. We still have the car until tonight so we all are driving to school which is much better than walking 20+ minutes each way!

Our Cape Town trip is coming up in two weeks and I cant wait! Renae, Matt, and I are flying with a discount airline from P.E. to there on the 4th and coming back the 8th, AND we booked ourselves a room at the Holiday Inn Express City Center and we're just steps from all the museums and waterfront! We're hopefully going to Table Mountain and Cape Point to see penguins and then we'll pry go to the water front and the shops and maybe just walk about the city. I think i'm down to around 80 days left here and I cant belive it. Its just flying by so quick. Its gonna be so tough to leave because Annie's Cove and P.E. just seem so much like home to me now, especially now that i've got so many friends here and we're all going to split up.

Not a ton else big has happened here. Just been going about the day to day regular life---classes, movie nights on wednesdays, going out on the weekend, and thats about it! I think we're going Bungee jumping in a few weeks when Natalie's boyfriend comes to visit from England. We're going off the Bloukrans Bridge ---the highest commercial bungee in the world! Its totally safe though do dont worry people! And cheap too for what you get! I'll get a dvd of the entire jump that I can show you all when I get home. When I watched some other peoples dvds it just gave me such an adrenaline rush and I decided I had to do it, because when else in my life will I have this oppertunity!? Its going to be such a blast! Well off to drive some more people to school so till then! Cheers!