Monday 21st

I found out today that my Grandmother is really sick and might die this week. It's quite stressful being so far away when something like this is looming overhead.

At school tonight I asked about the progress of my visa application and they told me it would take six weeks! That's ridiculous. I got my first visa from the embassy in 36 hours. I need my passport. I’m leaving in 13 weeks, so I cant afford to lose my passport for such a long time. I want to visit Uganda and Burundi. What if I need to go home for a funeral? I’m finding this quite stressful.


Karyn and I sat in the garden this morning marking my mock exams from school. It turns out I’m quite a generous marker. All this sunshine must be getting to me.

In the afternoon I met up with Jean Paul at church. He just started university and I’m tutoring him to make sure he understands all his assignments. The English in his text books is ridiculously hard, and it's my job to simplify comp

licated business terms into language he can understand. It's harder than it sounds. What the heck does 'salient' mean?



Anyway, today we looked at the scarcity of resources and opportunity cost, micro and macro economics, as well as capitalism vs. socialism. 'Are you qualified to talk about such things?' you may well ask. Interestingly enough, yes I am. I learnt about opportunity cost in Germany during a research scholarship, capitalism and socialism in my politics lectures and micro/macro economics by helping a uni friend revise. Boo yah.

In the evening we went to Jen and Serge's for dinner. Today was a national voting holiday so I didn't have school, which was actually a really nice break. Dinner was really good. You how last week I mentioned that they have lots of cute pet rabbits? Well they have less now.

Man, rabbit is good.