So, I attempted to load my pictures again, on a different computer but I'm still not having any luck. I can view my pictures on the screen but it won't let me upload them to the computer. My camera also is not giving me the option of transfering them manually. So, I don't know when you'll get to see pictures. Maybe when I come home, maybe ( Read more... )

Do you ever feel like you've been punched in the stomach and all the air's been knocked out of you? Yeah, I'm having one of those moments ( Read more... )

Last brief interaction with my internet for a week or so. I'm off for our rural homestay tomorrow. You should all write me happy comments and emails so I can feel special when I come home and have mail ( Read more... )

I'm cold. I was expecting spring into summer... but no. Oh well, at least my fleece is coming in handy ( Read more... )

Ok, so it's been a while since I've had the good old internet. I just had to go pay another R57 so that I could get fast internet again (I used all mine up uploading pictures). This weekend was fairly uneventful. I cooked my Mama dinner (spaghetti with sauteed vegetables and chicken and salad). They seemed to like it alright, although my ( Read more... )

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So, this weekend we took a trip out to Gramstown and Winterberg in the more norhtern parts of the eastern cape. It was really really beautiful, lots of mountains and cows and sheep and fellow deer and monkeys and cacti. The people were a little scary, pretty hardcore Africaaners living in an isolated rural valley. They really aren't working with ( Read more... )

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Hello again! We have wireless in the lodge where we are staying (just for one more night before we go off on our homestays) so I figured I'd post. Things are going well although with 18 girls the drama has started. My days have been really really busy but interesting. I have seen monkeys, elephants, zebras, warthogs, ostriches, kudus, and red ( Read more... )