Holla at yo camel riding girrrrrrl!

Okay real life. Today was the best day ever. First, let me tell you about yesterday.. For day 1 they decided to jam pack our day. We had a lecture in the morning, which was quite entertaining, and then a mini break followed by a painful lecture by a woman who wasn't too good at public speaking. The content was okay, but the actual delivery wasn't on point. We had so many things to do yesterday, they were hustling us around everywhere from session to session. Most of us still felt jet lagged (I still do kinda today) and it was just a lot a lot for the first day. Also, some of the topics they had us talking about were deep and it was kind of weird diving right into these things. But oh well, you win some you lose some.  To put it into perspective... One of the teachers was giving a talk later in the evening and she referred to a lecture that was "yesterday" but in fact was just earlier that morning. Yeah if the teacher's think it's been a long day then it's absolutely been a long day.
Anywhoooo, last night we were exhausted but we decided after dinner to go to the mall. It's literally right across the street from UFS so it was maybe a 15 minute walk from the "res." While we were there, Felix, the OIP/Study Abroad director decided we should get pizza and beer. So of course who are we to turn down pizza and beer? Even though we are in South Africa we went for the pizza and beer. While we were there I ordered a glass of Sangria, which was uh-may-zinggg and Alyson got herself a Smirnoff storm, while Felix went for the traditional African beer. After eating we got the check and we learned that you add the tip before they run your card in the machine or else it won't get added. Interesting right?
So enough about boring yesterday and on today, the day I RODE A CAMEL! Okay, but really today during the day we had more blah blah blah stuff and we took a group picture and listened to another lecture on the evolution of higher education which we listened to one yesterday. So after we were done with the lectures and listening to a little bit of Hamlet, we were given free time before dinner. We went to the arts festival which started today and we rode camels! It was only 30 rand, which is less than $4! SO COOL! Even though at first our camel got up and down at least twice. That part was kind of scary. Brooke and I were on it together so we were worried that we were too heavy, but the real problem ended up being that the camel had just given a ride and was lazy and didn't want to get up. It was scary. But we did it and got to ride camels! HOLLLLLAAAAA AT YO CAMEL RIDING GIRL! lolz anyways and then we got potato chips on a stick. They took an  apple peeler thing, peeled a potato, put it on a stick, fried and then seasoned it. It was soooo good! So good!

But my computer is dying and I should publish this right quick so I don't lose it. That would stink. Oh and I need to buy a new adapter oops. Not good.