Alryty then , hav u eva noticed how i like to blog after particularly awesom nyts out ? well now i hav , and i guess u now notice ? maybe? well anyway, tonight was awesome.
to start the evening a few friends and i went to the baylor version of the hss cultural show which was pretty cool, but ours is better. had this awesome fat potatoe samoosa, sooooo good.The isss (baylor version of hss= indian subcontinent students association) then had this after party at a club in waco. well i'd never been out in waco n was like ok yes, lets do it. good idea, very good idea. it was so much fun.
recently God has been telling me how i'm called to party ministry which sometimes involves prayer , or dancing or cleaning up vomit . and 2nyt was a dance nyt so i shook my biscuit, keeping it as modest as i could, thinking of my relationship with Christ. and sumtyms it didnt work out so good and other tyms it did. But the reason tonyt was so good was because 4 the first time when some1 said u dance really well i turned around and told them that i danced for Jesus, that i was ther to let them kno that Jesus loves people who party too.
it was great. The Lord has been so faithful thus far in my exchange , taking me from strength to strength through his awesomeness, its amazing.
i love you , goodnight
xoxoxo
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Spring Break
Righty oh , im bad at this , this has been established , but this is a sorta summary of my super awesome Spring Break. I went on this Baylor sponsored Civil Rights tour and its was super cool , this is the blog i posted on the trips blog and if you want to read the rest of trips participants accounts you can check it out on baylorcivilrightstour.blogspot.com
Wow, ok. So it's over and I'm in shock and experiencing signs of withdrawal, I miss all of you guys. Um, this is a sort of summary of my trip and how I felt along the way
Day1
Today we visited Little Rock High School and I didn't feel anything. I didn't feel any major sorrow, any shock or surprise, I just didn't feel anything. I was like shame (which means I'm sorry in South African English), spit, but then it was like eh, oh well. I guess I'm desensitized, having grown up in South Africa, in a time quite similar to the era just after the Civil Rights movement. So it isn't to strange for me to have been the first black family in an area, or for stones to be thrown at me because I'm black.
When we went to the Dunbar museum, what struck me then was that most of these people looked white and I was like, Oh.
Another product of South Africa is that because people were graded on how close to white they were, I find it difficult to accept that people who are almost white and people who are black can be treated the same way.
Day 2
Worship at the historically black church was such a culture shock to me, though I'm black , because I'm South African , I'd never experienced something like that before. Lunch in Memphis was pretty good; I ate catfish for the first time and discovered that it tastes much better when you eat it with your hands.
The National Civil Rights museum was pretty legit and I really enjoyed our awesome tour guide. For me, it was the first time I'd heard a lot of the information and I thought it was exciting and new.
My favourite part about Memphis though, has to be Beale Street. We had an absolute ball there when we were given free time and I feel it really allowed me to start connecting with the people I was travelling with. We danced and sang karaoke at what must have been the most talented karaoke night in America; the people who sang were phenomenal. We also had some of our own singing notes I never thought I'd hear.
Day3
We were in Oxford and wow, it was intense. This was where our group (group 3) experienced The Heated Debate, it was intense, but that one has its own blog. The rest of Oxford wasn't as intense though and it’s a beautiful little town with ridiculously overpriced clothing stores and a really fun bookshop chain thing. It was great. They also had this really cool diner called Ajax where I deep fried eggplant which was pretty cool.
On the way out of Mississippi we stopped at this gas station and I had a conversation with the attendant and when I asked about racism, she said it was still very prevalent and that people often refused to be served by her and that in fact someone had lied to her manager that very day because she was black. When I said we were going to Alabama she said she was sorry, as it was worse there...
Day 4
Birmingham, Alabama was amazing the Civil Rights Institute was my favourite of all the museums we went to, and we went to quite a few. The other cool part of Birmingham was free time when we walked all over the city, it was amazing. We had this really awesome group with Syntche, Rachana, Chey, Lei, Lauren and I. We walked down the historical black district into these cool barbershops and just talked to people. We walked into this one ghetto fabulous store selling everything from fake hair to grillz, it was awesome. I met this guy at the store and asked him about the race situation in Alabama and he told me, how he felt his race had affected the quality of his education, how he'd felt entering the army was his only way to escape becoming a lay about at home, how at one point in time he'd worked 16hours a day to make $900 a week and how he was moving to Tennessee to escape because maybe change would come faster then.
Day 5
Selma was so cool, oh my gosh, we did this tour of Selma and walked across the bridge, it was great. The best part however, was when we went on this slavery simulation. It was phenomenal. It was one of the first times I really connected with the struggle of America's African American population. It just changed my perspective. It made me realize that we need to start racial reconciliation in South Africa now, because if we don't in forty years we'll have what America has. Where most of the majority are totally disconnected from the situation and its affects are something the minority groups feel daily.
Day 6
Montgomery was a lot intense. We went to four museums in one day, it was crazy. However, the first museum, the Southern Poverty Law Center was a real eye opener to the kind of discrimination going on today and to the forgotten heroes of the Civil Rights movement. Their wall of tolerance however, was what really challenged me because I didn't know whether to sign it or not. As someone who has faced a lot of discrimination, it's one of my main goals in life to learn to value people regardless of their age, race, gender or sexual orientation. But I was afraid to sign the wall because I was afraid people would take it to mean that I was in support of things I don't agree with. I believe that people should be allowed to do what they would like as long as it doesn't harm anyone else, but that doesn't mean I will support it or be in favour of it. So I didn't sign the wall and I'm still not sure whether that was the right choice or not.
Day 7
Was a rather interesting day, we had a bus accident (someone scrapped the bus whilst trying to change lanes) so our panel discussion for that day was cancelled. But we did get to have an awesome night in New Orleans eating benets and celebrating as bears when Baylor won their basketball games.
Day 9
This was a real eye opener because I didn't believe this could happen in America. I couldn't believe that 3years after Katrina, people could be living in a hollowed out shell of a house and that the poorer areas could be left relatively unchanged since the disaster.
It was awesome to be able to do a little something, but it made me feel sad to leave when there was still so much left to do.
On a brighter note though NO was fun for so many other reasons. I got to eat an amazing Oyster po'boy which is basically a deep fried oyster sandwich, one word = Awesome. Our planned night out in NO went a little pear shaped though, because it was pouring and we sort of ended up walking for a mile and a half going to a place we didn't even end up going. But then we danced in the rain, had benets and coffee for dinner and danced on Bourbon St. picking up beads and roses in true NO style. It was a good night.
Day 9
The last day of our trip was where I realised just how awesome it had had been and just how much I didn’t want to leave, but hey. The highlights of the day where when we stopped at Rachana's parents Shipley's and they gave us free reign of the doughnut shop allowing us to get whatever we wanted. Thank you so much Mr. & Mrs. Chhin. As well as this really awesome contemplative worship session that C Mac led us in.
The most awesome parts of the trip though were things like playing catchphrase til the early hours of the morning and having awesome conversations with people I would never have met any other way. This trip changed my life, it’s been amazing and taught me so much about myself and others, changing my world view . . .
Wow, ok. So it's over and I'm in shock and experiencing signs of withdrawal, I miss all of you guys. Um, this is a sort of summary of my trip and how I felt along the way
Day1
Today we visited Little Rock High School and I didn't feel anything. I didn't feel any major sorrow, any shock or surprise, I just didn't feel anything. I was like shame (which means I'm sorry in South African English), spit, but then it was like eh, oh well. I guess I'm desensitized, having grown up in South Africa, in a time quite similar to the era just after the Civil Rights movement. So it isn't to strange for me to have been the first black family in an area, or for stones to be thrown at me because I'm black.
When we went to the Dunbar museum, what struck me then was that most of these people looked white and I was like, Oh.
Another product of South Africa is that because people were graded on how close to white they were, I find it difficult to accept that people who are almost white and people who are black can be treated the same way.
Day 2
Worship at the historically black church was such a culture shock to me, though I'm black , because I'm South African , I'd never experienced something like that before. Lunch in Memphis was pretty good; I ate catfish for the first time and discovered that it tastes much better when you eat it with your hands.
The National Civil Rights museum was pretty legit and I really enjoyed our awesome tour guide. For me, it was the first time I'd heard a lot of the information and I thought it was exciting and new.
My favourite part about Memphis though, has to be Beale Street. We had an absolute ball there when we were given free time and I feel it really allowed me to start connecting with the people I was travelling with. We danced and sang karaoke at what must have been the most talented karaoke night in America; the people who sang were phenomenal. We also had some of our own singing notes I never thought I'd hear.
Day3
We were in Oxford and wow, it was intense. This was where our group (group 3) experienced The Heated Debate, it was intense, but that one has its own blog. The rest of Oxford wasn't as intense though and it’s a beautiful little town with ridiculously overpriced clothing stores and a really fun bookshop chain thing. It was great. They also had this really cool diner called Ajax where I deep fried eggplant which was pretty cool.
On the way out of Mississippi we stopped at this gas station and I had a conversation with the attendant and when I asked about racism, she said it was still very prevalent and that people often refused to be served by her and that in fact someone had lied to her manager that very day because she was black. When I said we were going to Alabama she said she was sorry, as it was worse there...
Day 4
Birmingham, Alabama was amazing the Civil Rights Institute was my favourite of all the museums we went to, and we went to quite a few. The other cool part of Birmingham was free time when we walked all over the city, it was amazing. We had this really awesome group with Syntche, Rachana, Chey, Lei, Lauren and I. We walked down the historical black district into these cool barbershops and just talked to people. We walked into this one ghetto fabulous store selling everything from fake hair to grillz, it was awesome. I met this guy at the store and asked him about the race situation in Alabama and he told me, how he felt his race had affected the quality of his education, how he'd felt entering the army was his only way to escape becoming a lay about at home, how at one point in time he'd worked 16hours a day to make $900 a week and how he was moving to Tennessee to escape because maybe change would come faster then.
Day 5
Selma was so cool, oh my gosh, we did this tour of Selma and walked across the bridge, it was great. The best part however, was when we went on this slavery simulation. It was phenomenal. It was one of the first times I really connected with the struggle of America's African American population. It just changed my perspective. It made me realize that we need to start racial reconciliation in South Africa now, because if we don't in forty years we'll have what America has. Where most of the majority are totally disconnected from the situation and its affects are something the minority groups feel daily.
Day 6
Montgomery was a lot intense. We went to four museums in one day, it was crazy. However, the first museum, the Southern Poverty Law Center was a real eye opener to the kind of discrimination going on today and to the forgotten heroes of the Civil Rights movement. Their wall of tolerance however, was what really challenged me because I didn't know whether to sign it or not. As someone who has faced a lot of discrimination, it's one of my main goals in life to learn to value people regardless of their age, race, gender or sexual orientation. But I was afraid to sign the wall because I was afraid people would take it to mean that I was in support of things I don't agree with. I believe that people should be allowed to do what they would like as long as it doesn't harm anyone else, but that doesn't mean I will support it or be in favour of it. So I didn't sign the wall and I'm still not sure whether that was the right choice or not.
Day 7
Was a rather interesting day, we had a bus accident (someone scrapped the bus whilst trying to change lanes) so our panel discussion for that day was cancelled. But we did get to have an awesome night in New Orleans eating benets and celebrating as bears when Baylor won their basketball games.
Day 9
This was a real eye opener because I didn't believe this could happen in America. I couldn't believe that 3years after Katrina, people could be living in a hollowed out shell of a house and that the poorer areas could be left relatively unchanged since the disaster.
It was awesome to be able to do a little something, but it made me feel sad to leave when there was still so much left to do.
On a brighter note though NO was fun for so many other reasons. I got to eat an amazing Oyster po'boy which is basically a deep fried oyster sandwich, one word = Awesome. Our planned night out in NO went a little pear shaped though, because it was pouring and we sort of ended up walking for a mile and a half going to a place we didn't even end up going. But then we danced in the rain, had benets and coffee for dinner and danced on Bourbon St. picking up beads and roses in true NO style. It was a good night.
Day 9
The last day of our trip was where I realised just how awesome it had had been and just how much I didn’t want to leave, but hey. The highlights of the day where when we stopped at Rachana's parents Shipley's and they gave us free reign of the doughnut shop allowing us to get whatever we wanted. Thank you so much Mr. & Mrs. Chhin. As well as this really awesome contemplative worship session that C Mac led us in.
The most awesome parts of the trip though were things like playing catchphrase til the early hours of the morning and having awesome conversations with people I would never have met any other way. This trip changed my life, it’s been amazing and taught me so much about myself and others, changing my world view . . .
Sunday, March 1, 2009
the last 2 weeks
Ok so my friends say I have very negative American views ,but that's just not true-ish. I sorta like America and I AM havin this AWESOME time with my American friends.
Apart from that I've also been a pretty bad blogger ,but I will say that the work is crazy cos i have like a crazy work schedule with atleast 14hours of homework which i think is ridiculous , but hey
The highlights of the last 2 weeks
last week i went to this brazillian students party at school and i learnt capoeira and the brazilian electric slide ( uh uh ).
Um then this weekend we went to Houston , hello H-town, very very cool . We stayed with my friend Lolly and her mum so cool. we had this amazin cheese and wine at home and then we made pannekoeke dat ons het geeet met cinnamon , suur-lemoen en suiker ( uh uh?) vry cool.
We also went to the zoo and awesome vintage shoppie places . i realised however, that i don't really like zoo's because the animal's look so sad.
i think the thing that will probably have the most impact on me was that I went to Joel Osteen's church and it was so sad because it was like a whole lotta of counterfeit christianity and like 10000 people believing in it.
but ya
i love you guys and i miss u
xoxoxo
Apart from that I've also been a pretty bad blogger ,but I will say that the work is crazy cos i have like a crazy work schedule with atleast 14hours of homework which i think is ridiculous , but hey
The highlights of the last 2 weeks
last week i went to this brazillian students party at school and i learnt capoeira and the brazilian electric slide ( uh uh ).
Um then this weekend we went to Houston , hello H-town, very very cool . We stayed with my friend Lolly and her mum so cool. we had this amazin cheese and wine at home and then we made pannekoeke dat ons het geeet met cinnamon , suur-lemoen en suiker ( uh uh?) vry cool.
We also went to the zoo and awesome vintage shoppie places . i realised however, that i don't really like zoo's because the animal's look so sad.
i think the thing that will probably have the most impact on me was that I went to Joel Osteen's church and it was so sad because it was like a whole lotta of counterfeit christianity and like 10000 people believing in it.
but ya
i love you guys and i miss u
xoxoxo
Sunday, February 15, 2009
random things
ok well this is the day after , where my neck is stiff and a lil tired 4rm my "wild " ways, lol.
um ok , the past 2 weeks have been pretty uneventful and ive been super busy with work so please 4give me. due to the recent increase in all of those "25 things about me lists" ive been inspired to write a 15 Random/not so random things aobut baylor/texas
1. they really do say 'dubya' for w
2. girls at baylor think its appropriate to go to class in gym gear ( it's not)
3. apparently the choice in the mornings is between a shower and breakfast after a sweaty workout
4 . school is actually hard
5. people here are overachievers and a friend of mine said don't worry u'll do better wen i got 64% for a math test i'd heard about only 2days b4 i wrote it.
6. george dubya is a friend of the coach of the women's basketball team
7 . he has come to a baylor basketball game
8. he wants to teach a course at baylor soon
9. people get married at like 12 here , ok maybe its 21 but thats the same thing
10. baylor has a ring before spring tradition where juniors (3rd years ) r supposed to be engaged before spring break and in honour of that the school newspaper has a wedding sipplement.
11.being liberal is not normal
12. a lot of people dnt know that south africa is a country
13. the scriptwriter from silence of the lambs went to baylor.
14. angela from 'the office' is from baylor
15. only doctor pepper product drinks are sold on campus and on tuesdays you get a free doctor pepper float
um ok , the past 2 weeks have been pretty uneventful and ive been super busy with work so please 4give me. due to the recent increase in all of those "25 things about me lists" ive been inspired to write a 15 Random/not so random things aobut baylor/texas
1. they really do say 'dubya' for w
2. girls at baylor think its appropriate to go to class in gym gear ( it's not)
3. apparently the choice in the mornings is between a shower and breakfast after a sweaty workout
4 . school is actually hard
5. people here are overachievers and a friend of mine said don't worry u'll do better wen i got 64% for a math test i'd heard about only 2days b4 i wrote it.
6. george dubya is a friend of the coach of the women's basketball team
7 . he has come to a baylor basketball game
8. he wants to teach a course at baylor soon
9. people get married at like 12 here , ok maybe its 21 but thats the same thing
10. baylor has a ring before spring tradition where juniors (3rd years ) r supposed to be engaged before spring break and in honour of that the school newspaper has a wedding sipplement.
11.being liberal is not normal
12. a lot of people dnt know that south africa is a country
13. the scriptwriter from silence of the lambs went to baylor.
14. angela from 'the office' is from baylor
15. only doctor pepper product drinks are sold on campus and on tuesdays you get a free doctor pepper float
best vday ever
um ryt so its about 3.30 am and i just gt bak 4rm my most amazing valentines day ever. so fun , so i thought id share it with you before my memories drifted off into sleep.
um i started the day thinkin it would b warm and sunny , only to discover it was 40F outside , which is somewhere in the low single digits celcius. I had a preplanned math date , so i sorta had to go do that at like 9am, nt so fun but a great way to start the day.
after that i went to commongrounds, this really cool coffee place where this org that i support , falling whistles was having an awareness day ( google falling whistles , its intense) . So i sorta landed there and happened to stay there most of the day listenin to awesome music , painting stuff and buying fairtrade goods, i loved it.
later on i had this really dramatic and intense story about this huge poster , way to log to tell here bt ask me if u hav questions.
After that some friends and I rocked the pretty and ate dinner at a mexican restuarant , i ate fried ice - cream , nt as cool as i thought it'd be , bt hey , c'est la vie.
now for the cool part , this awesome dance party , also at commongrounds with this super cool dj who happened to be a breakdancer and kul jazz guitarist , off the chain kinda good. after that a few friends n i rocked this party in the car park , amazin , super cool , the spice girls wer involved . after that , headed to this kareoke bar to link up wit people to after party with , sorta didnt happen , but that was ok n a few friends and i went back to an apartment to chill n talk about nothing .
vday was great cos its the 1sty one where ive eva been able to enjoy the happiness of others and i loved it , it also helps that lots of people said i looked beautiful ( in a non-threatening super genuine way). my day was phenomenal and God's been amazin in helpin my hav the best vday ever.
i love you xoxoxoxo
p.s . i'll post pics wen its nt half past 3 in the mornin n i hav church the next day
um i started the day thinkin it would b warm and sunny , only to discover it was 40F outside , which is somewhere in the low single digits celcius. I had a preplanned math date , so i sorta had to go do that at like 9am, nt so fun but a great way to start the day.
after that i went to commongrounds, this really cool coffee place where this org that i support , falling whistles was having an awareness day ( google falling whistles , its intense) . So i sorta landed there and happened to stay there most of the day listenin to awesome music , painting stuff and buying fairtrade goods, i loved it.
later on i had this really dramatic and intense story about this huge poster , way to log to tell here bt ask me if u hav questions.
After that some friends and I rocked the pretty and ate dinner at a mexican restuarant , i ate fried ice - cream , nt as cool as i thought it'd be , bt hey , c'est la vie.
now for the cool part , this awesome dance party , also at commongrounds with this super cool dj who happened to be a breakdancer and kul jazz guitarist , off the chain kinda good. after that a few friends n i rocked this party in the car park , amazin , super cool , the spice girls wer involved . after that , headed to this kareoke bar to link up wit people to after party with , sorta didnt happen , but that was ok n a few friends and i went back to an apartment to chill n talk about nothing .
vday was great cos its the 1sty one where ive eva been able to enjoy the happiness of others and i loved it , it also helps that lots of people said i looked beautiful ( in a non-threatening super genuine way). my day was phenomenal and God's been amazin in helpin my hav the best vday ever.
i love you xoxoxoxo
p.s . i'll post pics wen its nt half past 3 in the mornin n i hav church the next day
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Welcome to the Party
Now this is a lil soon ,but last night was so intense that i just had to tell you.
So i was invited to my first American House party and i was like kool , yeah , but i was also lazy to go cos i'd jus failed my first quiz (not fun ) {very dif style of testing}. but any way, the intos(internationals / exchange students) wer like chipo u have to come n i was like ok fine even tho i didnt kno the girl whose party it was.
so we get there n we're like whoo hoo, party party n every1's like , do u want a drink n im like no , no drinks 4 me n people r like no u sure and im like ya. bt they're like ok , this 1s a lil wierd.
N lo n behold , who should stop by the party, but the PoPo (Police) n they're there to bust underage drinking, it was so exciting , like an american movie. They had uniforms and everything
So i had to take a breathelyzer test and um ya it came up 0.00 for alcohol which is cool. I kinda feel a lil bit vindicated 4 my no alky stance now cos wen the cops came i had nothing to fear cos i knew i hadnt done anything bad. some people gt tickets and hav to appear in court n a friend was fined $200 and this other guy 's gonna hav a warrant 4 his arrest because he lied to the popo.
Um so ya , this is one those cool days when the benefits of followin the bible are visible to every1 " you shall obey the laws of the land in which you live ". Cos imagine wat would have hapened if i'd been drinkin n i had to tell my rentals , i now hav an American criminal record ( not fun).
Party people
so yayness im happy n havin fun in America and these are some pics of the party.
Me before I took the test
Us intos and the police man
Friday, January 30, 2009
Week 3/4 - Sorry
Hey all, sorry this is delayed , but life has been crazy and God's been doing amazing things in my life.
One of the most amazing, was last week I went to a conference called World Mandate , where God shared with me His purpose for my life. It's amazing , because I finally have some direction as to what exactly I'm to do with myself and that is to help be a mother to lost children and to make world changing Godly policy by working with UNICEF, its amazing.
but in the process of God revealing His plan for me , He's started to call me out on the issues i have in my life that will hold me back and one big 1 is Pride. Those of u who know me can probably agree that this is true , so friends i'm humbling myself and asking you to pray for me that i may be truely humbled , i'm asking you to call me out when i'm prideful or selfish. Because that is the only way we can grow as a family in Christ is by being completely honest with each other.
this is a lil scary and disarming 4 me , but obviously God has a plan.
Another cool thing that has happened , is that an opportunity has arisen 4 me go to India in the summer on an all expenses paid mission trip. By all expenses paid I mean that God has plan to pay and I'm not quite sure what it is yet. so would you please pray 4 me, that God would make a way if it's His will.
Onto other cool things, on tuesday in class this guy was just like "Hi is there any1 who would like to know about the love that Jesus has for them please talk to me after class." that was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cool cos i was like wow, that would never ever happen at Rhodes
Baylor does however hav this wierd closed minded culture its strange like i heard someone say " i suspect he's a liberal, i have my suspicions ". Oh n guess wat , George Bush was at the women's basketball game ,but i didn't get to see him cos i was at church , c'est tres interessant non? He also might be coming to give a class at baylor.
My stove also burst into flames the other day when i was cooking, not so fun but interesting.
And grahamstonians, if u think our weather is bad , if has nothing on Texas , the other day the min was 3 C and the max was 27 C , that's just crazy. and i had my first half ice day, wer class was delayed till 10 cos of icy roads , unfortunately my first class was 11 so i didnt really get the benefit of it. bt ya
ok i hav a quiz that i need to study for. so bubye
lovies
One of the most amazing, was last week I went to a conference called World Mandate , where God shared with me His purpose for my life. It's amazing , because I finally have some direction as to what exactly I'm to do with myself and that is to help be a mother to lost children and to make world changing Godly policy by working with UNICEF, its amazing.
but in the process of God revealing His plan for me , He's started to call me out on the issues i have in my life that will hold me back and one big 1 is Pride. Those of u who know me can probably agree that this is true , so friends i'm humbling myself and asking you to pray for me that i may be truely humbled , i'm asking you to call me out when i'm prideful or selfish. Because that is the only way we can grow as a family in Christ is by being completely honest with each other.
this is a lil scary and disarming 4 me , but obviously God has a plan.
Another cool thing that has happened , is that an opportunity has arisen 4 me go to India in the summer on an all expenses paid mission trip. By all expenses paid I mean that God has plan to pay and I'm not quite sure what it is yet. so would you please pray 4 me, that God would make a way if it's His will.
Onto other cool things, on tuesday in class this guy was just like "Hi is there any1 who would like to know about the love that Jesus has for them please talk to me after class." that was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cool cos i was like wow, that would never ever happen at Rhodes
Baylor does however hav this wierd closed minded culture its strange like i heard someone say " i suspect he's a liberal, i have my suspicions ". Oh n guess wat , George Bush was at the women's basketball game ,but i didn't get to see him cos i was at church , c'est tres interessant non? He also might be coming to give a class at baylor.
My stove also burst into flames the other day when i was cooking, not so fun but interesting.
And grahamstonians, if u think our weather is bad , if has nothing on Texas , the other day the min was 3 C and the max was 27 C , that's just crazy. and i had my first half ice day, wer class was delayed till 10 cos of icy roads , unfortunately my first class was 11 so i didnt really get the benefit of it. bt ya
ok i hav a quiz that i need to study for. so bubye
lovies
Monday, January 19, 2009
Week 2 with pictures
Me in a Sombrero
Ok so this was my first official week of school ( uni) with classes and everything, waaaay intense and fun. first off i have this really cool schedule so i've only got 1 class on a monday wednesday friday. the downside of this is that i have 8 o clock classes on tuesday and thursday , not super fun.
this semester i'm takin pol problems in developing countries, differential equations, calculus 3 , intermediate macro economics and international economics . my classes r pretty fun and my fav for the mo is international ecos , but its got a lot of work . pol is a lil annoying because the american r bein so AMERICAN about it and almost completely obnoxious.
um one of the highlights of the trip so far was wen i told someone i was from south africa and they asked which country , i nearly died of laughter( inside of course) the sad thing was that she was a uni student.
coolness of this week was wen my roomie mayra made me mexican food , waaaaaaaaaaaaay good. omg the food here is crazy , the dinning hall is a super duper all you can eat buffet with amazin variety , vry vry cool
american boys are also very polite, they always hold the door open for you and stuff even if ur a long way off , so that's nice and texans are jus supa dupa friendly.
I realised that i have yet to introduce to u the main characters of my exchange thus far so here they are
The internationals
Katrina: crazy fun austrailian who just turned 21
Kat, Angelica, Gerda and Rachel at the brunchAngelica : cool swede who just spent 6 months in india so she has the cutest english accent.
Gerda: chilled dutch girl from utrecht
Gerda: chilled dutch girl from utrecht
The Americans :
Me, Lauren and KatAmanda( Tantour): fun loving christian irish girl witha killer voice and a passion for india
Amanda: intensely smart but way cool girl from DC/Arkansas
Amanda: intensely smart but way cool girl from DC/Arkansas
Tarryn : quiet but cool artsy girl from colorado
Lauren ; pixie cute quiet and fun girl
Abby: super sporty fun texan girl
Rachel: Katrina's roomie also way fun philipino/american girl
Mayra: my coolness mexican american housemate
Tiffany : my taekwando -doing , japan loving, anime addicted slightly tom-boyish roomie
Samantha: my 21 year old housemate
oh wait random american fact, they don't bath/shower everyday , only when they feel like it. ( wierd, i kno)
um so ya the bestest part of week 2 was my super fun crazy weekend in San Antonio. because it was Kat's 21st and a long wkend a couple of us(9) decided to have a road trip to san Antonio , a town about 3 hours away 4rm us. It was crazy, 5 of us drove down on friday night ( me, rachel,gerda, kat, angelica,) and had an amazing dinner at this super cool jazz bar/ italian restaurant with a belly dancer, very random very cool and the best lasagna ever.
on saturday mornin angelica and i went galavanting, she cut her hair and i bought sum pink hair which will make an appearance soon. We then went back to the hotel ( a super cheap , slightly dodgy in a not so safe side of town bt near enough to the hub hotel) got the other girls and did more galavanting , i've been to the Alamo ( google it). And we waited for the other girls to arrive, they came and we headed off for a crazy fun night of partying. unfortunately howeva since the legal drinking age is 21 in the US most places are over 21 and only 3 of us including Kat wer ova, so we ended up in this random mexican club called Medusa , but we had a good time and I believe it was God's way of keepin me out of trouble without me bein a stick in the mud. the cool thing bout the night though was that the ova 21s got to got to the Coyote Ugly bar and had an awesome time.
next day was pretty awesome too and we woke up at around 9 so that we could have a birthday brunch for kat at the hyaty , it was ridiculously expensive bt we got our money's worth and sat for about 2hours and 45 minutes stuffing our faces with gud food, it was great. Then sum of us went and did more galavanting and in the night we had dinner at this cool mexican resturant. afterword we went walking down the riverwalk and sang random songs and dodged guys who tried to wish us happy collective birthdays, it was great.
Monday was the day we came home and i atea texas shaped waffle.
by the way just to let u kno wen we complain about bein lazy to go to the dinnin hall, i now hav a 10 to 15 min walk to my nearest 1 , its great.
well asta la vista baby
mwa xoxox
mwa xoxox
Saturday, January 10, 2009
rhodent or bear
ok ryt , this is 1st post from the land of the bull, (sigh) my first week was intense.
so i arrived to Waco (pronounced Wayco), on tuesday and the weather was waaay awesome around about 20 degrees celcius. I got to the bearpit ( central meeting place where they keep actual live bears ( waay stoopid and mean)) and there was no one there to meet me cause i arrived early so i was like ok let me walk to my handler's office so there i am trekking acros baylor with my 27kg suitcase, my 10kg hand luggage and my laptop bag. long story short i fell flat on my face got rescued by a neuroscientist and trekked round baylor for no good reason
day 2
met other up with other into's (international kids) and had a crazy fun expensive in rands trip to walmart , good stuff.
day 3
had the longest orientation , BUT they gav us free food and i won a t-shirt (oh yea).
day 4
omg omg omg , we went to the bank and wer there for like 3 and a half hours, not at all fun in any way. But as a sort of redemtion we got to go to the mall and i went shoppin ( life is good). Um we also just chilled and had a blast later on we went to this coffee shop called common ground all the rhodents will get its similarity to home ground and seriosly , its pretty much the same.
day 5
we wer supposed to do this walk thing with all the other into girls bt it suddenly became freezin , it was so cold that i gt brain freeze from the outsyd, nt fun and there wer crazy g-town style winds. howeva the scene was rescued wen we went to starbucks,it was so intense havin americans tryin to correct my pronounciation of rooibos , grrrr
later on we went to my first basketball game and i will say this , i HATE the american way of playin sports , u hav so many breaks that a 15 min quarter turns in2 an hour
essentially all i hav to say 4 the mo is that i'd rather be a rhodent than a bear
so i arrived to Waco (pronounced Wayco), on tuesday and the weather was waaay awesome around about 20 degrees celcius. I got to the bearpit ( central meeting place where they keep actual live bears ( waay stoopid and mean)) and there was no one there to meet me cause i arrived early so i was like ok let me walk to my handler's office so there i am trekking acros baylor with my 27kg suitcase, my 10kg hand luggage and my laptop bag. long story short i fell flat on my face got rescued by a neuroscientist and trekked round baylor for no good reason
day 2
met other up with other into's (international kids) and had a crazy fun expensive in rands trip to walmart , good stuff.
day 3
had the longest orientation , BUT they gav us free food and i won a t-shirt (oh yea).
day 4
omg omg omg , we went to the bank and wer there for like 3 and a half hours, not at all fun in any way. But as a sort of redemtion we got to go to the mall and i went shoppin ( life is good). Um we also just chilled and had a blast later on we went to this coffee shop called common ground all the rhodents will get its similarity to home ground and seriosly , its pretty much the same.
day 5
we wer supposed to do this walk thing with all the other into girls bt it suddenly became freezin , it was so cold that i gt brain freeze from the outsyd, nt fun and there wer crazy g-town style winds. howeva the scene was rescued wen we went to starbucks,it was so intense havin americans tryin to correct my pronounciation of rooibos , grrrr
later on we went to my first basketball game and i will say this , i HATE the american way of playin sports , u hav so many breaks that a 15 min quarter turns in2 an hour
essentially all i hav to say 4 the mo is that i'd rather be a rhodent than a bear
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