May Already??

The past two weeks have been dominated by the arrival of a friend from the last two trips I was here, Zurika. Zurika is crazy, but the good kind of crazy; loud, fun, foolish crazy. It was such a nice change of pace having someone that lively around. We enjoyed a couple of girls' nights over at the lodge next door where one of our other friends from years past, Elena, is living. We ate good food and laughed and looked up at the stars. We had a fun tequila and dancing night. She was helping to take care of Chiquita so we were hoping she could stay longer, but she had to return to Pretoria.

I can't believe it's already May! Where did April go?? Two girls who have been here a month are leaving this week. Both of them are my roommates, so it'll be just me and the rats in my big room again. I'm going to try to really take advantage of my last month here. I want to take at least one day trip, continue taking tons of pictures (I've taken some really good one of the wild and captive baboons so far if I do say so myself), and anything else that comes my way. We are having a Cinco de Mayo party tomorrow called Cinco de 'Braai'o. A braai is a south African barbecue, and we haven't had one the whole time I've been here. We'll have a big fire and lots of meat- should be an excellent time!


*I will ask Stephen and Dan (my bosses) on donation info, because my mom has told me that a few people expressed interest in helping out CARE, which is awesome. I'll post some of that info soon!