Weekend update

This weekend I didn't actually do a Hell of a lot. Thabang came over on Friday, at which point he tried to teach me some Sotho songs. It was fun, but I've already forgotten how most of them go. I mean, I remember parts of them, but not the whole thing. Saturday we went to Welverdiend and just walked around, visited his family (who loves me) and some of his friends. I tried chips and fat kook for the first time together, and they were good. Saturday evening we went back to campus for the Earth Hour event (darkness, speech, toasting marshmallows), which I helped plan and also had to be there to document. It was actually a rather nice time, despite my complete freak-out over ants crawling on me in the dark and biting me. Thabang slept over again and on Sunday he helped me take out my braids. This was nearly as big a project as getting them put in. My hair was quite poofy afterwards, but that didn't last long (and no, there aren't any pictures).

Monday was back to work again, and I more or less just did the same things so far that I did last week, although in varying stages of progress.

The FGASA (Field Guide Association of South Africa) students had their big, final test today and only 2 out of 9 passed the written portion and can go on to their practical portion tomorrow. Either way, they'll all be gone by the end of the week, which makes me sad. I really liked that group. They were different than all the other short-course students in that they were nice, mature enough, fun, and easy-going. They weren't clique-ish or creepy or annoying, which was really refreshing.

This upcoming weekend is Easter weekend, which is a 4-day weekend here in South Africa (we get both Friday and Monday off). I haven't quite figured out what I'm going to do, although there are vague plans to go someplace with Thabang's family and drink home-made marula beer. In any case, I'll keep you posted.