Monday Love

Mondays are just good days!  (I know, I know... These words almost don't make sense together.)

TODAY I RECEIVED A PACKAGE!!!

Since I hadn't seen any sign of a package slip I went to the mail room in the administration building.  Thankfully they had the slip!  The package apparently arrived on the 10th.  I guess it's been lost in translation for awhile.  Oh African Time.   I took my slip to the post office and was helped within 20minutes!  SCORE!  The package was safe and sound! :)  

The package was from two of my favorite people of all time.  They sent me two books for my birthday!  I can't wait to dive into them both!  (And with break right around the corner, I will be able to!!) I also received the nicest letter which is joining my bulletin board of all things good. It's hard to beat a good letter!

THANK YOU ROBERT AND ROSIE! 

How did I become so lucky to have you in my life? 

The rest of my day went as usual.  At the vet clinic, I saw a few checkups and vaccines.  I met a couple who has been stationed at the US embassy through the army.  They are heading back to the states on Thursday and are shipping their two dogs back.  They needed to get papers signed by their vet and then papers signed by a government vet.  They said the process wasn't difficult and it was pretty easy to bring a pet back into the US.  That's nice to know!  I think it's because we already have most of the problem pet diseases like heartworms.   I was hopping to see a knee surgery that needs to be done but it got moved to Tuesday morning. Darn.  Is it worth skipping class to go and see it?  Still deciding...

After work, I stopped by spar and bought a loaf of bread.  I used the bread slicer for the first time.  It was a bit of a struggle and thankfully some poor guy had mercy on me and helped me out.  I ate the bread with my  left over instant Indian curry.  Yum.  I attended Setswana for an hour and since then have been in my room being productive!  Check!  I applied to a sea turtle hospital internship in Charleston and the vet hospital internship at Animal Kingdom.  I'm still not so sure I just don't want to spend my time in Columbia before vet school, but I wanted to have options!  If nothing else, I got to practice writing cover letters!

Tonight,  Tumi, a friend I met at the laundry facility, came over and hung out.  She's motswana and finishing her final year here.  She studied in Malasia for a year and a half.  Awesome!  I had a ton of fun talking to her.   I also got a few movies from her so now I have something to watch when I need some chill time. Yay for friends! :)

Oh a completely unrelated note...  Windhoek, Namibia is apparently called "little Germany" because of it's strong German influences.  They have an October Fest the weekend of October 26th which is supposed to be really fun.  I was love to go to it but I looked up the bus price and it is the equivalent of $100 US dollars there and back.  Now, if I'm going to spend 100 dollars for transportation, I want to stay for more than just a weekend! Anyway,  I just thought you guys should know that they indeed have October Fest in Africa.  Who would have "thunk" it?


Signing off.
Love you all.