A New Week

It is a new week in Botswana. The cockroach kill count is up to 4 and I have started carrying a heaving book with me into the kitchen so it is easy to squash them. Classes actually begin because professors show up and I scrible ambiguous notes that really mean nothing to me until I go back and reorganize them because Professors do not lecture in a way that facilitates learning. The weekend was nice and relaxing after last weeks hell. I went to the Game City mall for the first time and bought myself a cheese grater. Even just thinking of it now makes me smile because now I have six ways for grating and have only lost a few large flakes of skin trying to figure out how to do it most efficiently. On Sunday I went climbing at this place near the airport. It was great fun, however I do not believe I have ever had more burrs, thorns, and seeds stuck to my body at any given time. When I showered at the end of the day I counted over one hundred little scratchs, scrapes, and punctures from the number flora I encountered on the small walk up the hill. However it was all worth it because the view was spectactular and I was able to sit and enjoy the silence so hard to find on campus. Monday was exciting, I learned nothing in my classes and they changed the Geology timetable again (Go UB!). I did however cook myself three delicious meals and go for an enjoyable run that did not involve a track (I discovered that you can run for over 30min on campus and not pass the same place). Yesterday I went to a movie with my two Deutch roomates. They are wonderful people and it was nice to sit in the cinema because number 1, it was an excuse to by candy, number 2 the candy there cost the same as the candy at the grocery store, number 3 i like listening to people speak in English I can understand. It has been a little chilly here the last few days and overcast. If we were in Oregon I would think it was about to rain, just due to how the air smelled. But I am not in Oregon, I am in Botswana and we will be luck if it rains by the end of September. I didn't think I would miss it but I do, the rain that is. Botswana is starting to become familiar and it is hard to believe I have already been here for three weeks. It feels like more, and sometimes less time. I am sorry I have nothing too exciting to say, but I thought everyone would like an update. I love you all and miss you. Feel free to send me an email or if you love me a lot, a letter or package. My mailing address is now posted on the sidebar of my blog. Love always,
Celene