Good Week
This has been a good week. It is nice to have a good week leading up to your birthday (yes, this is a shameless ploy to get birthday messages from my readership- so for specific acknowledgement my birthday is the 16th, and I will be spending it at Kruger National Park hopefully zebra spotting). So for a quick update:
I’m almost done with cataloguing all the books I currently have for the library. Let me tell you, it’s quite a tedious task to individually label each of the over 600 books the school now has, but I’m proud of myself and excited about almost having a library (except for shelves; still figuring out that hitch).
Things have also been going really well with my host family. I made them spaghetti for dinner one night (which I can’t claim as a completely selfless act, as the electricity had been out for about 20 hours I wanted to use up my beef before it got really sketchy). This particularly pleased my host mom who affectionately refers to me as “my girl” when I do something that makes her happy. Other instances of occasions that I merited her praise: lending Mapula money in Pretoria, baking banana bread, making her a mother’s day card, etc- really I’m a saint. She likes to also thank me by giving me “cold drink” aka 1.5 liters of soda. Hence, because she had rotten bananas last week, I baked a lot of banana bread and with this weeks spaghetti…; anyways I’m very well stocked in the Grape Fanta department. Next time the kids come to play I’ll have to use some up on them (another indication of my saintliness or my only mediocre enjoyment of Grape Fanta).
Oupa has also been particularly nice to me (I think he wants more food and realizes now that I keep all my food in my room where he can’t steal it, and the only way he will be offered any is if he isn’t a pain in my ass.
So yeah… work’s good, family’s good, looking forward to the weekend. Good times, good times…
I’m almost done with cataloguing all the books I currently have for the library. Let me tell you, it’s quite a tedious task to individually label each of the over 600 books the school now has, but I’m proud of myself and excited about almost having a library (except for shelves; still figuring out that hitch).
Things have also been going really well with my host family. I made them spaghetti for dinner one night (which I can’t claim as a completely selfless act, as the electricity had been out for about 20 hours I wanted to use up my beef before it got really sketchy). This particularly pleased my host mom who affectionately refers to me as “my girl” when I do something that makes her happy. Other instances of occasions that I merited her praise: lending Mapula money in Pretoria, baking banana bread, making her a mother’s day card, etc- really I’m a saint. She likes to also thank me by giving me “cold drink” aka 1.5 liters of soda. Hence, because she had rotten bananas last week, I baked a lot of banana bread and with this weeks spaghetti…; anyways I’m very well stocked in the Grape Fanta department. Next time the kids come to play I’ll have to use some up on them (another indication of my saintliness or my only mediocre enjoyment of Grape Fanta).
Oupa has also been particularly nice to me (I think he wants more food and realizes now that I keep all my food in my room where he can’t steal it, and the only way he will be offered any is if he isn’t a pain in my ass.
So yeah… work’s good, family’s good, looking forward to the weekend. Good times, good times…
posted by Cait at 9:07 AM
1 Comments:
Happy Birthday sweetie! I miss you, and I am sorry that I am not there with you guys to spend your birthday. I am glad you are doing well. I will send you a care package, what would you like? I read your blog often, and get sad and happy. I am doing great here! I start Nursing school in the Spring. Take care. Carrie Jacobson
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