1.28.09

It has officially been pouring for 24 hours, and it’s awesome! I love rain, but I am beginning to realize that I’ve begun to take the beauty of it for granted. Experiencing the rain in this new environment is refreshing, and renewing. And even though it’s raining, it doesn’t hold the monkey back. I don’t think I’ve explained yet, we have about 30 monkey that live on our campus. Before we came here, we were brainwashed into thinking the monkeys were miniature versions of the devil…and now that I’m here I see that they are. They break into the rooms and steal food, they get into every garbage can within a mile of this place, and they torture the girls (which is rather funny I must say). We were told me must establish our dominance, so that’s exactly what we’ve been doing. At any chance me and my fellow 8 men chase the monkey, it’s super juvenile, but so fun. It’s also really fascinating, I love it.
I guess the reason I’m here is for school. After all without the study, there wouldn’t be a study abroad. So about my classes. I have four of them right now. A South African history class that’s only once a week. A Zulu class that’s only once a week. And my two largest classes right now are bio and Life and Teachings of Jesus. I have yet to take my Life and Teachings class, but my Bio class is started. It’s only Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but the class goes from 830am to 400pm, it’s insane! The sweet part is that every Wednesday is a field trip, yes just like we’re in 3rd grade. Today, because of the rain we were in the classroom again so next Tuesday and Wednesday we now have field trips, I’m stoked!
Oh, and another bit of excitement. Last night my buddy David was giving me the usual haircut with a pair of beard clippers. It was moving slow because the trimmer is for beards, but we were making progress. Then Chad walked into the bathroom, David lost focus, the end of the clippers came off, and Dave took a clean swipe at my head…I then had to shave my head. It’s awful. And I’m going to stop telling the story before I start crying. Life goes on I guess…
That’s it for now. Life’s good, and God’s even better. Thanks to those who’ve been contacting me, I love hearing from everyone. Talk to you soon!