I can’t say a whole lot has happened in the last week. Every day is sort of running into the next one. I have too much homework to do to go out on the weekends so I haven’t gone anywhere since spring break (the fact that I have little money left is also helping that along). Though I may be going to Tsitiskama this next weekend and go bungee jumping off a bridge. We’ll see how that goes
Classes at school are not too exciting. I’m getting really tired of the three hour classes. About an hour through them I get really antsy or really bored. I get a lot of homework done in class though, thanks to that. The crisis that is Marine biology is soon to be over, I think. A couple of us, me included, notified Gary about how horrible we did on the first lab write up and how we pretty much all failed the test we took last Thursday. When I talked to him in Sem class about it he said he had “opened up a dialog with Ronel.” That made me feel somewhat better. Gary isn’t going to let us all fail a class, it wouldn’t look good to those who would want to go on this trip in the future. Well, the outcome of that is a retake of the test this upcoming Thursday and a re-write of our first lab write up. I am going to be working my butt off to get good grades on those. I have another lab write up I have been working for hours on. On Thursday I ran out of Internet at school, which is extremely hard to do, researching and downloading material for this next paper, that was about 3 and a half hours. Friday I worked on it pretty much all day until I ran out of stuff to write about. I am sick of it and never want to talk about rocky shore zonation again.
We had another birthday on Wednesday. So, as a surprise, we had a braai. That was quite possibly the best meal I have had all trip. There was pasta salad, corn (gotta have a little touch of home), grilled potatoes, hamsbok steak, and fish that was left from the guys’ fishing expedition. Someone mentioned about how expensive that meal would have been if it were being eaten at a restaurant back at home. You can’t easily get hamsbok in the States. I have to say they guys on this trip, at least a few of them, are some of the best cooks I know. I’m glad they’re here to cook me food J.
There was another public holiday on Friday. I’m not sure what it was. They seem to have a lot of them here. I’m not complaining.
This weekend was supposed to be exciting with shark diving and penguin island hopping. Well, it didn’t really turn out that way. Friday we were supposed to go dive with the sharks but the swells were huge and the visibility really poor. (All the fishing boats were in the harbor and it had something to do with these conditions, I have no idea why but it looked cool). At first we were told 7:30, so I got up and was ready by that time. Someone forgot to tell us that the timed changed to 1. But it didn’t matter, conditions were too bad. So diving would have to wait until Sunday, supposedly. Saturday morning I got up at 7 thinking I would have to be ready by 8 to go to St. Croix Island to see the penguins. Well, the same conditions as the day before prevented us from going. This was the second day in a row that I had gotten up and for no reason. Finally Sunday was supposed to be the good day. We actually did get up to go to the Island, at 5:30. Needless to say I was not a happy camper. The Island was cool but a little anticlimactic. We did get to see a ton of dolphins swimming right next to the boat. Diving for the day was cancelled and rescheduled for Friday. I’m crossing my fingers.
I come home in two weeks…ahhhhhh.
Peace.
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