Quick Update!

We have been in Pietermaritzburg for approximately two weeks, and I have loved every minute of it. We have been in school, so it hasn't been extremely eventful. Actually, I take that back... a monkey walked into our chapel service last Monday morning, and Jess and I are now 'pro' at synchronizing our laptops to play songs at the same time... we need speakers.

On Sunday I attended God's Family Life Centre and I fell in love. ☺ Music was in English and Zulu. I have never gotten so many hugs in my life, and we there for about 3 and a half hours. I can’t wait to go back this next weekend. ☺

The weather has been rainy and that’s a little annoying when you live in paradise and want to explore your new home.

At about 9:30pm every night I look at my watch, gasp, and say, “Well, it’s about time I head off to bed”. I feel like an old person. However, you would want to go to bed too if you knew you got to ‘pillow-talk’ with my cute roommate.

We are extremely spoiled here… laundry done for us twice a week, tea and coffee set out five times a day, rooms cleaned weekly, water and candy set out before every class, yummy food, and lots of love from the staff. I’m already dreading the day I have to leave.

Yesterday I looked outside and saw about eight monkeys in the tree right outside my window… not cute. These monkeys attack my friends. These monkeys send their babies through our bedroom windows to steal our things. These monkeys stalk us. Most girls literally carry around large sticks of wood or pepper spray to defend themselves.


They were even closer when we first looked out our window... it's war.


My friends let me cut their hair... I've done about 4 heads so far (including my own). :)

Oh yeah, and this is one of the giraffes I saw during my Bio lab.