I didn’t sleep well last night. We had a
crazy rainstorm, and metal roofs make for really loud rainfall. I was also
really warm, so my sleep was pretty disrupted. It probably didn’t help that
people I know (luckily not the people closest to me) were dying quite often in
my dreams last night. Either way, I didn’t wake up in the best mood. It’s too
bad, because I was hoping to shake last night’s funk since I’ve been in such a
great mood the whole trip so far.
The day started off with a class where Paul
gave us some feedback on our assignments. I’ve been pretty nervous about these
assignments because they’re both vague and very specific. I got anxious today
about my mark in the class potentially affecting my future (if I’d gotten into
med school by now I wouldn’t worry, but with each day that passes, it’s seeming
more likely that I won’t be getting in this year. I’m trying to keep chipper
about it, but it’s also reality). It turned out that tomorrow was the last day
to drop the course without it showing up on my transcript, so I dropped the
course today. It’s a bit bizarre, since I’ll still be doing all the work and
going to all the classes. I guess it’s like I’m auditing the course. To me,
this makes a lot of sense since I don’t need the course for my degree, and I
came here for the experience and learning rather than the grade anyway, so I’ll
be able to focus more on those if I’m not stressing about my grade. I told Paul
that I dropped the course and he seemed okay with it, though he’s not a
particularly expressive person, so it’s hard to tell. He said it shouldn’t
cause any problems.
The weather wasn’t good enough to go to the
beach in the end; apparently the beach we were supposed to go to is in a
rainforest-y area, so it’d be very wet after last night’s storm. I wasn’t too
upset about that since I wasn’t super energetic. After class, most of us
wandered into town to the internet café again. They have really yummy samosas!
Natalee and I started doing research on the logistics of doing a safari next
weekend before we leave. Paul’s been trying to work on a safari for us, but
most places that we’re likely to see anything exciting, we’d need to travel far
enough that we’d have to stay overnight. So Natalee and I are looking into
going off on our own to see some wildlife! That might be the highlight of my
trip if it works out; I love animals and Natalee and I get along really well,
so it’d be interesting and fun to travel just the two of us.
This afternoon/ evening, we've all just
hung out at the Oasis. Paul organized another BBQ, so we’ve been eating,
drinking (Paul restocked our beer fridge. Natalee joked that it was the end of
prohibition, since after last weekend he said he wouldn't be restocking it for
awhile), playing games, and hanging out. Now that I’m feeling a bit better,
Kelsey and I resumed our workouts (joined by Laura!), though I noticed how the
sickness of the past few days took a toll on my fitness.
Since I’m tired, I’m sitting in bed writing
this at 8:30PM…Livin’ it up, really. Tonight’s going to be an early night for
me. That’s all I’ve got to say about today J
Added later: I forgot to include a fun
anecdote from earlier today! We were walking to town, which includes a walk
past a school. As usual, our presence prompted a chant of “Azungu! Azungu!” I
think Azungu and Mazungu are interchangeable, but I’m not sure. However, this
time, the chorus of shouts went, “Azungu, Azungu, Azungu China!” The reason why
this was funny was because Pat was with us; Pat is half Thai and half Irish…not
at all Chinese. But we just thought it was funny that Pat got special mention.
-Jen
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