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i know i've be terribly delinquent in my writing!!! haha. you would think that i would have all the time in the world to write but i'm telling you .... its hectic watching movies day in and day out! JUST KIDDING!!!!

i've been working a lot lately, i'm on a stretch of nine days in a row actually. my own doing really. i traded one shift with someone for a weekend off at the end of the month. i'm going camping with Brad and Chanee and some friends of theirs. i'm VERY excited about it. but this stretch of work is also longggg... lol.

i can't for the life of me remember every day events of the past week so i will just think up some highlights. :) i promise to be faithful to the blog again!

monday i went to life group. i've decided on a group that i'm now going to stick with for the rest of my time here. its a wonderful group and i love the people in it. i feel very at home there and very comfortable as well. its a little farther away but this awesome girl, Michelle has said that she will pick me up every week. which is amazing. so i'm all set.

amy got bitten by a spider this week. we don't know exactly when it happend but probably when she was sleeping. she called me one morning while i was at work and told me how swollen her hand was. i made her come over to show me at the babies home and when she came over it wasn't the swollen hand that worried me as much as the red line traveling up her arm!! so we got her to the doctor and he put her on anitbiotics straight away and she is totally fine now. so thats an answer to prayer.

i went to the movies with nicole and mamello this week. i drove, and i'm loving it. its not not a problem really for me being on the other side of the road and i drive like i did in Canada, crazy and fast. lol. only here thats just normal. hehe. (dad i'm kidding i totally just drive the speed limit and obey all the traffic laws.... ;) )

friday night i made dinner and invited a bunch of people over. it was lekker if i do say so myself. i made spaggetti and and garlic toast. it was was so fun! Taylor, tumi, Antwini, Lerato (BJ was busy so i was babysiting her) Johanna and Luke, Amee and Geoff, and the dutch sisters. so it was a good crowd. we ate, watched a movie and then had a water fight and late late later a few of us made pancakes!

ohhh the water fight. well lets see. this all started because amy and lauren and i had the grand idea that we needed to buy water guns and surprise attack some people. it ended up with ballons and guns and a full on war. which was so much FUN!!!! a few hostages were taken (tumi's bike is still hidden in the girls loo) and i've heard rumblings of a retribution that will come down on us. but it is SOOOO worth it. that epic battle happened on thursday night. and then friday night the guns were laying around and so it because irrisitable and we had to battle once more. lol. i feel like this will be a trend for the next while. so cell phones are a bit of a concern. lol.

Today was Urban Market. i worked in the coffee shop this morning clearing tables and being in charge of the cake table. that was fun. and then wandered around the market and found some absolutely stunning art peices that i bought. this guy was selling them and he gave me a great deal. they are original peieces and they are just beautiful!!! i'm so happy. ive been looking since i came here for the perfect art to bring back and there is a style of painting that i love but i hadnt seen anything that was perfect till today. they are done on peiece of wood but they are quite light so i shouldn't have any worries getting them back home. i have them up in my room now and i just love them. they are three pieces, one is of a woman carrying a jar on her head and they other are warriors with spears. so cool!

ok. late for work. much run. work is going so very well. every friday i assist with the swim lessons. actually the guy that runs the upkeep of the property is going away in december with his wife and while he is going i'm going to be in charge of the pool. making sure it doens't turn green and keep the chemicals in balance. apparently every year he goes away and no one does the pool and it turns green and takes weeks to fix and make right, so i've offered to try to keep it blue!!! hehe.... hope it works out!!! lol.

and i've also being working on some menu ideas for the babies home and hopefuly in the next little while myself and another lady in charge (Barbara, affectionately known as Go Go, which is Grandma in sotho or zulu or something) will be doing over the whole menu and some of my recipies will be going into the weekly menu plan! kinda cool.

ok. running away. cheers!!!