Sept 10th
Ahh it’s been a long day…. It started off at 3am, when I woke up and couldn’t get back to sleep. My internal clock hasn’t caught up with the rest of me, but at least I was able to talk to people in the US. Anyway I caught a cat nap for few minutes before I finally got up to get ready for work. My roommate and I try to arrive at PMH by 7:30am so that we can get a parking space. Otherwise you have to park on the street, which is less secure. Unfortunately I had to turn right back around and return home because I forgot my laptop “sigh”. Of course on the way I got totally lost and went the wrong direction on the combi, but at least I’ve discovered the that the Tlokweng 4, which takes me to and from home, goes over to the main mall and to the area where immigration and the British embassy is. Good to know. Anyway I arrived back at BHP and then went directly to the NNU. I haven’t started my data collection yet, hopefully, I will start by the end of the week. Currently, I’ve been going to the NNU to figure out what data sources are available. This helped with writing my data collection form, which I just finished and sent off to my mentor to have him check. Hopefully he won’t have too many changes, so that I can get started. I definitely want to keep busy here. If I have too much time on my hands I think I will start to miss home a lot. For the first time since I got here I started to miss home. The ease of getting around, my family and friends, TJ’s. I actually made rice pudding today just to have a little familiarity, and it came out really well. Also its’ great that the gym is nearby. I decided to try a workout step class today after work. I’d done one before at fitcorp, and figured it would be easy to adapt to this one. However that wasn’t the case. I essentially was falling all over the place as I tried to keep up, and I looked liked I had absolutely no rhythm. There was this shimmy step, which almost everybody else in the room glided through with ease, while I twitched about like a disjointed robot. I’m definitely going back next week!
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I knew you were missing home when you did not want to get off the phone, didn,t I tell you last week to talk to me more ha!ha!ha!. but really dont feel so bad. remember the time will go by fast. you are in Africa things move at a slower pace but really time is moving fast . experience Africa, if you find that you have extra time, ask that auntie to teach you to cook some african food, take setswan class, volunteer in the hospital, organize a small clinic for little kids. most of have fun and get some rest. I am proud of you. keep up that gym thing, at least I know you are eating. mom
Ade says hi.
Hey Boom shakalaka!!! Step class woo-hoo (do an extra 10 minutes for me!!!) Enjoy a little down time while you can, but really try and live in the moment..you're going to have an awesome year!!! Miss you masses, but extremely excited that you get to experience all of this!! (Rice pudding in Bots!!! How cool is that!) Love ya xoxo
Love you tons. Miss you much. Try not to get any more tickets on the road!!
kHey Boom..glad we got a chance to talk!!! No more tickest or they'll think you drive like me!!!! Love ya, have an AWESOME day today!!!
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