Greetings world--week ten!

Howzit? It's good over here! Let's see, a rather quicker rundown than usual.

Sunday: good services in the morning and evening, and in between Ronel and I went about Cavendish mall, which was a blast. We were supposed to be going clothing shopping, but it turns out that both of us are rather impatient with the whole trying on process, so that didn't really take up much of our time. ;-) Instead, we went to a CD shop and a book shop and a housewares shop. Mostly we didn't buy anything, because Cavendish is known to be affluent and therefore expensive. I was looking for a bargain book bin at Exclusive Books and when I asked the sales clerk about it, she smiled and said they did have bargain book bins at other stores but "not at Cavendish". *laughs* Oh well, at least that also meant really nice plush couches for lounging in between stores and not one, but TWO health stores--one which is accurately name "Wellness Warehouse!" It's the largest health food store I've ever seen--anywhere! Okay, there's Whole Foods, but this was exclusively health-related, including selling exercise equipment and having a massage area. Between the two stores I ended up buying some liquid stevia, some more muesli, and two wheat-free, sugar-free, all-natural "candy bars" (in other words, waaay healthier for you than a proper piece of candy should be ;-) ). As far as food went, we stopped by a fish place in the food court and had calamari and rice for lunch--I also bought a salad there, and some poppadums and a deep-fried spicy potato patty from the Indian place, because I could. :-D Then later at tea I had some of the "candy bars" and a carrot-ginger smoothie from Sumo with echinacea immune defence booster in it. Altogether a nice treat of an outing! :-)

Let's see, as far as this past week is concerned:

Just working on things and stuff like that and some cooking and cleaning and etc. The "bad" news I have something major due Mon-Thurs next week! The good news is that all of the assignments are laid out and explained, so I know what to do--I just have to do it! It's still so strange to be staring down the barrel of my last week of classes, and then exam week and then a trip to the Eastern Cape!

Let's see--the presentation on Monday went really well--it was God-blessed and I enjoyed it a lot actually! Also, I've watched two more movies this week. Thursday was Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow while working on the framework of an assignment, since framing an assignment is boring work(the bibliography and skimming the readings, etc). I found it to be very silly and fun and altogether a great movie to watch while doing something else, because it really doesn't require your full attention to understand. The other movie was Tiger and the Snow, made by the same guy who did Life is Beautiful. I watched it last night with Ronel. It's not nearly as heavy as Life is Beautiful, and I found it charming, though I do find Benini, well, slightly annoying, and not laugh-out-loud funny.

Alrighty, in other news: package from parents! T-shirts! It's nice to have more to wear, and they have a lot of sentimental value too--with everyone else wearing Cornerstone college or Bethel University t-shirts, it's nice to be representing the Geneva College marching band! Wo0t! Also, she packed in the "Silm" shirt and the Susque shirt, so I am seriously going to be representing over here in Cape Town, South Africa! Double Wo0T! Oh, and speaking of which Camp Susque accepted my application--I'll be working there Fellowship weekend and Changeover week! I'm so glad opened doors so I could return and help out for a bit--it's a great place to be, and will be a nice break from the work-a-day world, even with all the craziness that happens at camp as well! Camp craziness is totally different from normal craziness.

Now I need to leave so I can grab some tea and study, because there be plans tonight! I'm invited to an American-style barbeque--all the exchange students are, courtesy of Dr. Wayne Herman and his family. I'm looking forward to the ostrich burgers, and they're going to put aside some potato salad without the mayo (with a plain yogurt dressing instead) so I can have some! And a green salad too! And Woolies has MSG-free hot dogs, so I'm bringing some of those along. It should be fun! It's weird though--on the whole, I really prefer braais to barbeques--remember how I reminisced over braais in the US all that time? I need to make sure I make it to at least one more before I leave for the US. Be forewarned, a post comparing the American barbeque to the South African braai will be forthcoming!

“then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”- Acts 4:10,12

Yay Easter! God bless and keep you all!