3.1.09

My birthday is in less than a week, I can’t wait to receive packages from all of you! Oh man, I’m excited…I’ll really feel loved! In advance, thanks for all the presents and the such, I’ll let you know whose is my favorite.
Anyway, yesterday we had yet another field trip. This one was to tour “the battlefields” of the Anglo-Zulu war (essentially the war between the native Zulu people and the invading British people way back when). Anyway, we drove for a solid 4+ hours before we got to our first battlefield, and boy was it something. A huge open valley, with almost nothing but a little hill in the middle of it. 4+ hours totally worth it haha! Then we headed to our 2nd and final destination which was a little house that the British fought off the Zulus from when they were way outnumbered. Again, waking up at 500 am was totally worth it to see this. It was something else. Then, we headed back into the bus and drove 4+ hours back home. In all seriousness though, the ride was pretty fun. I really didn’t mind it at all.
Upon arriving back at AE, we at dinner. Now while we were eating, some girls decided to prank us back from the night before. They got us so good that by the time I got back to the chalet, I had no idea anything had even happened. No harm done, but to make a point, when the 2 instigators left for a bite later in the night, all 9 of us guys went over to their rooms (in two different chalets let me inform you) and switched every-single-thing from each others rooms. We’re talking pictures on the walls, all their clothes, mattresses, etc. Everything. That made for an eventful next few hours.
Theeeen, even later on I went on a night run through the reserve with my friends Dave and Megan, and every zebra in the entire reserve (6 of them I think haha) came to see us. We were runnin’ wild with the zebras! It was so cool.
So the night was wrappin up late, and I wasn’t feeling like going to church, but my wise friend Paige reminded me that church is not about what I can get from it, but what I can give to it. With that said, I went to church, and I’m really tired now, but I’m glad I went. Got some studying to do today and tomorrow, and a test on Tuesday in Bio.
I’m off folks, thanks for joining me on another adventure of Alex’s semester in South Africa! Oh, and if you didn’t catch it, that first paragraph was a joke. Later!