So i do go to school too...

I know it might seem that i rarely participate in anything school related, but you would be surprised, classes here are harder than a state. A lot more homework also. Zulu class is getting tough, we are learning how to say things negatively and instead of just putting a word in front you have to change the verb entirely- crazy language. But i didn't do as poorly on the first exam as anticipated. yay for having a 75% be an A here. i guess things are just marked very differently.

The only problem is that here all the finals are worth 60% of the grade so i guess i just have to trudge through the motions of the semester and then study really hard at the end. However this method doesn't give much incentive for going to class throughout the semester. Attendance in most of my classes is very low.

What else? History class.... he talks like we all know what is going on but i have never heard of any of this stuff before. i feel like i am a huge disadvantage for not being from South Africa. We talk about all these names of Zulu kings and places like they are every day speech. stressful. The good thing is i had a consultation with my professor today ( he was only two hours late for the appointment, typically south African) about my essay and he said it was awesome. which is surprising since i have absolutely no idea what i wrote about. so i guess things are going better than expected.

Political science volunteering is my third class and volunteering is amazing. writing the research papers that go along with the class, not so great. But yesterday we went to Ubuntu and took a walk with the girls through the neighborhood to the hospital. It was so interesting to see what a hospital looked like here. let met tell you... not as sterile as you would think. We also saw that most of the places in the area do not have any running water and there are pumps outside on the corners kind of like a campground and people filling up buckets for water. can you imagine? it is fun for a couple of days in the summer to live like that, but to have to carry buckets of water every day. i really take a lot of things for granted.

Ok... have to go to class. see life isn't one big vacation. just close...