Doin' some things in Africa

So I got really bad at updating my blog daily as things happen and now I’m trying to recall what the heck I’ve done over the past week so I’m sorry if this one is more rambly and disjointed than usual! But who am I kidding that’s what my past few blogs have been like and yall read it anyway! I think I left off last time at our Chapman’s Peak drive last Tuesday. I don’t think I did anything Wednesday. I wrote an essay about smoking in the restaurant industry. It’s boring. I wrote another essay that I turned in today. It was less boring. It was about transnational surrogacy in India and that is MESSED UP stuff, talk to me about it! I’ve been thinking a lot about my academic experience here and my final takeaways from it. I know I’ve been super down on UCT and haven’t exactly raved about my classes (and I’ll stand by my non-raving), but I think I can take some good out of it. I’ve gotten very used to a certain type of scientific writing in my majors at Tulane. Like everything is methods, ...

Hello again!! Here I am in the library writing this because I got bored of trying to take a nap. People always nap in the library here it’s honestly inspiring. That may be the ONE thing UCT has going for it. Hmm I can’t really think of anything to write about from this week nothing weird or out of the ordinary happened...JK GOTCHYA I sure do have stuff to talk about because Afrikaburn. I think Afrikaburn wiped out my memory because I kinda can’t remember anything before it. I think I went for ice cream a couple times. Oh yeah I got a DANK bagel with Jen and Jham on Wednesday. Like we decided it’s definitely the best bagel in Cape Town. For all my CT people reading this it’s called Max’s Bagels and it’s on Bree St and it’s a game changer. OMG DUH how could I forget we had an incredibly eventful night on Wednesday! I’m not sure how much I’m allowed to write about it but basically for Elena’s birthday we went to this place called Beefcakes that’s kinda like a re...

So real life continues after spring break which felt like it’s own abroad experience. As much as I miss galavanting around Botswana and sleeping in tents every night, having some normal time back in CT has been really nice. On Tuesday night, we went to dinner to celebrate Alyssa’s birthday. Idk if you’re an avid reader of my blog Alyssa but if you’re seeing this Happy Heckin late Birthday! It was great but things got kinda awkward cuz first we ordered nachos to share and the chips used in the nachos were legit Doritos which I know sounds amazing but idk sometimes you just want a normal chip uk? And then a bunch of us ordered this mushroom pasta which is literally all I eat here and I’m not mad about it but then we got real bad food envy about this pesto pasta Amanda and Jen got. And then the waitress accused Jen of lying about her order. And then I was talking to Alyssa and asked what dessert sounded good to her and she said she was in the mood for chocolate. So then when Alyssa was ...