Homestay in Gabs. I felt more comforatble the first night in my family's house here than I ever did in Kumakwane. And there's it's a weird sort of comfort that the house smells like the old houses built in the fifties in Savannah -- the kind that maybe have craking plaster walls and still have the footed tub in the bathroom ( Read more... )

Your Setswana fortune for the week:

Botlhale ba phala bo tswa phalaneng.The wisdom of the trumpet comes from the whistle ( Read more... )

Dumelang borra le bomma ( Read more... )

Blah blah, informative post, blah.

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A couple of students from the class have been sending around emails trying to discern whether anyone else is interested in travelling around South Africa for a few weeks after our semester over there officially ends. No biggie. In fact, an excellent idea ( Read more... )

Wisdom teeth out. Two hunks of bright red sopping wet gauze out. Two RIDICULOUS phonecalls while coming down off of the knockout stuff they put me on. It is really hard to eat or talk when you can't feel your face, especially your lips and tongue. If ound that really funny and told my cat all about it ( Read more... )

Well. I wanted to update to let you all know I am in fact still alive. Despite my recent and persistent fear that my candle will be snuffed, that I'll kick the bucket, pass away, enter the big sleep, bite the dust, feed the fish, cash in my chips, pay the piper, meet my maker, become oxygen challenged, push up some daisies, go toes up, expire in a ( Read more... )

Um...


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"Wait. Which wheat was it? ...Wow!"
Weston wonders, "What?!"
"Which wheat was it Weston wanted?"
"Woah."
"Wee-ird."
"Oui."

Yay W's!

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Also guys, just because I'm curious: Sloths. Absolutely Precious or Not?Right now the vote is 3-2: absolutely precious ( Read more... )

Thanks for all the kind thoughts when I was feeling particularly frustrated. I'm slowly but surely convincing myself that it's a tiny insignificant detail in the grand scheme of things. I really ought to know better than to cry over spilt milk. (It's just so satisfying sometimes ( Read more... )