A Reprise of Earlier Notes

My new bedroom (please go back and look at my old bedroom to compare the improvement) :). Kinda fun to set things up again. I've had the same quilt since I was six. But also makes me think a bit about my life...have to buy things that I already own and at almost 30, I'm unemployed. At least I can say that I am living in Cape Town. :) :)

Need to start keeping notes so I can remember the things that I want to tell you.

I now have my visa and can stay in South Africa until October 22, so I will need to reapply to stay a bit longer.

I am in my new house now and feel like it is a huge improvement. Although it is a bit difficult to start from scratch in setting up a bedroom, especially when one has already bought all those things previously. I am living with 2 boys, Fritz and Julian (Jules) and 1 girl, Cat. Cat has been on holiday almost the whole time and so I have seen her briefly. A lot more interaction with my housemates and we take turns cooking during the week. Which also means that I only have to wash dishes on the night I cook and some on weekends.

There are always little things that keep me out of my element. We have prepaid electricity and so a person runs to a shop tht sells it and then enters a code on the electric box at home. We ran out Sunday and it was my turn to buy it. So I did everything, but didn't have electricity. No one was home, so I pushed buttons, waited, pushed the same three buttons...Finally flipped the circuit breaker and...electricity!!

My other story of the week is that my housemate was discussing how the "gee-suh" (hard g) broke and had to be replaced. Turns out that is the hot water heater. He was suprised that we didn't have a specific name for it. Later I found out from someone else that the name comes from the natural geysers. OOOhhhh, he's saying geyser.