ten new computers and some time off work

today is friday. today is also the last day i will be in bergville for quite some time. tomorrow i head off to far away provinces and long lost friends. well, not quite. tomorrow i leave for a peace corps training in polokwane. that is right- i am returning to the province where this experience all began. i will also be reunited with the rest of sa17. some people i will be happy to see again, after three long months. others i could do without seeing, well, forever. i am not entirely sure what this training is about and i don't really care. i am just excited for a break from the same same that is my life. i am also excited to have my lockdown end, so that i can start taking weekend trips to explore different parts of sa. and, in all honestly, i am excited to have hot running water (even if it is only a bath) for a few weeks. i will actually smell nice again... i hope.

did you know that i can go about 4 days without bathing and my hair only starts to look gross on the 4th day? that is pretty amazing to me. i have stopped bathing, usually doing it twice a week at most. it is too cold. and it takes too much time to heat the water and pour it in my shower bag (repeat this 4 times) and then struggle through bathing in the middle of my room in a bucket when it is cold and the bucket isn't big enough. then i have to get dressed (quickly to prevent freezing) and mop up all the water on the floor and dump out all the water that i used and so on... the process is annoying and wastes my time, especially when i like to be asleep by 8:30-9. plus the only one who has to smell me is my kitten and he doesn't smell that great either (typical man).

today is friday. today is also the day that the ten slightly used desktop computers are being put in the new computer lab at my work. i am very proud. this is the first task that i have accomplished at my work. granted, it wasn't as hard as it could have been since there isn't a lack of funding at my ngo. but either way, i helped get them here. yay! i have to put passwords on them all and i plan to use animal names on 9 of them. the last one is getting michigan, so that i can represent.

today is friday. today is a good day.

ps- i won't be posting for the next 3-4 weeks. i am sure this will upset you all.