I CAN'T BELIEVE IT IS NOVEMBER! =)

Well goodbye September and October in south Africa. Hello November!

We only have like three weeks left in PMB and I cannot believe how fast time has flown by! Life is CRAZY! I have to remind myself every day that "this is real life" and that we are in Africa because i still cannot believe that i have been blessed with this amazing opportunity! Praise the Lord! =)

When we first got here we were leaving South Africa’s winter and are now going into summer. In the Eastern Cape (which is where we are) it rains in the summer season. So when we got here it was brown and dry. NOW, after many many days of thunder, hail, and rain the country has turned GREEN! I love it! It many many times reminds me of beautiful Ireland which makes me miss Ireland even more. It is super funny how many similarities there are between the white South African culture and the Northern Ireland culture! I love it! =)

In the spirit of enjoying the beauty around us we have done a couple of sweet activities like hiking, soccer and zip lining. African Enterprise is positioned outside of the city and up against a game reserve and mountain. Right behind our Chalets is a beautiful 30 ft waterfall that we get to hear and see always!

One of the highlights of this weekend was getting to go zip lining over the African canopy! It was seriously amazingly beautiful! The longest zip was 180 meters!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were going to fast, we were so high, and it was seriously so scary/awesome/wonderful/out of control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here is a picture of what it was like looking over the valley!

Fun Events that Start with H!

Homecoming

The past couple weeks we have gotten to have entirely too much fun! We have an amazing activities committee that plans stellar events! The first one was HOMECOMING! We had a homecoming week where every day we got to get dressed up for in a different way like crazy, twins, and stuff like that. It was everyone else who is here who is not a nursing major finals week so we used homecoming really just as an excuse to get dressed up and have a dance party. It was a vintage theme and the committee did great! We had dance offs, a photo booth to take pics and danced the night away! It was so much fun! Here is a picture of all the girls that live in my chalet! =) Charles Palma! =)

Halloween

Of course, the next H is Halloween! Again activities committee planned a great event for us to have fun and get dressed up! My roommate Kimberly and I were stressing because we didn’t know what we were going to be and while on a weekly mall run she came up with the idea of being an old married couple….so after an hour of getting my makeup done, asking the guys here for clothes, getting a q-tip/cotton mustache I came out looking like Mr. Fredrickson from UP! =) Here is a pic of me and Kim and then one of me and Cherokee when she was dressed up like Russel from Up and I was Mr. Fredrickson! Thanks to Adam, Lucas, Audra, and anyone else who made this costume possible!

=) This is what i would look like if i was an old man =)

RUSSEL AND MR. FREDRICKSON

This is post is all about the fun things that have gone on this past couple weeks! I will have a post ASAP about my last week of clinical and talk about the Community Project that we are doing with Walk in the Light Ministry!