Adventures of a Jellybean

The main event of this week was the long-anticipated visit home accompanied by Dana and Liesje. Having spent the best part of a month counting down to this weekend, I was very excited. There was just one snag to our carefully constructed plan, Dana had forgotten that she would be on door monitoring duty for res that Friday night and was finding it difficult to swap out with someone. So until around three hours before the time, there was a good chance it would just be Liesje and I having adventures in Cape Town.  Before I continue writing about the wonderful weekend with my two favourite people, let me mention a couple of other things that happened in this week. Firstly, I spent some time with Inge from my Bible study. We chose a day after class to meet up and got iced milo shakes from DCM and then walked along the Eerste Rivier until we found a good bench. It was very soothing sitting there in the late afternoon sun just chatting. While we were sat there, we saw a kitten come crawl...

On the first evening of the official start to the second term (and my last ever second term in Stellies-- eek time is moving too quickly!) I had supper with Dana. I was placed in charge of making the flapjacks while she made choc-mint muffins. Not altogether the most nutritious supper (although we do make flapjacks using banana as a substitute for eggs) but very student-friendly and Dana's current two staples I discovered. We got rather distracted looking at old photos on Dana's laptop (one of which I managed to send to myself but then she deleted it-- I think she did not want me to have the blackmail). We found some from the student formal at the church back in my first year when we first met. She commented that back then I was just "The random girl ruining the photo with her friends". That may seem harsh, but it is partly true, I had only really spoken to Nienke and Kayla. I think Dana and I only had our first proper conversation on the evening of the formal itself....

I have fallen so terribly behind in blogging that I fear I will never catch up! As I begin to write this, I am listening to the Paso Doble music coming from the hall while I wait for my own class to start after the open class. Liesje is inside and doing splendidly although I can tell her partner is a little lost and behind the others.  All this is to say that I am finally in a space where I have no academic work with me so I shall have to do something to keep myself occupied for the next 32 minutes-- why not blog?! [Author's note inserted here to say that I did not in fact get very far when I began writing this during the dance rehearsal, in fact I only finished it in June! I got until the account of the baboon before I was forced to stop writing again.] The road to equip began when Helen fetched Jordan and I from my flat. From there, we popped to Chara's to collect her, opened our drinks which I was tasked with buying, and headed off to Simon's Town! Helen's playlist b...

Hello again!  As I sit down to write this, it is just over two months after the week which is listed as the title. In hindsight, trying to do a weekly blog post may have been a bit ambitious.  I kept a bullet list to help myself remember what happened in this very short recess week, but in the end this is all it said and I am afraid I cannot remember too much: Waterfront muffins and walks dentist appointment not getting enough work done trying to find a book to read in the library I believe that "not getting enough work done" refers to the fact that I had two major assignments due when I got back as well as an oral presentation, neither of which I felt I spent enough much time working on at the time when I wrote this list. This year, I tried a very different approach to stress management which involved scheduling regular activities with friends and making the most of opportunities which came my way rather than hiding out in my room ploughing through academics. At times it fel...