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Past

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I'm flying back to the states the day after tomorrow.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

wow, so I really am on the other side of the world from California:


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Last week was so unbelievably stressful. I had four ten-page papers due and one of them was literally the WORST paper I have ever written in my life. Fortunately, it's not just me. All of my housemates feel like they've written the shittiest papers here, though I don't know if it's because everything in general is poorly run at UCT, or if we're ( Read more... )

Next week I have two papers due, but somehow I was suckered into going to Hermanus this weekend to go whale watching. Oh well, when in Africa!

I’ve been in Cape Town for about a month and a half now and spring break is already around the corner. Instead of going on safaris and sleeping in tents in Namibia and Mozambique, I’m doing field work in a satellite town, surveying households on urban food access and security. Part of my reason for coming here was to study the development of Cape ( Read more... )

Also, some things that have been going on in the past few months ( Read more... )

I never realized how nice it is to grab a drink after work. After dealing with shitty tourists, there's nothing better than having a Red Bull and Absolut ease your mind, especially in solitude ( Read more... )