public holidays are your friends...

so, another month come and gone - i can't believe how quickly the time is flying! i mean, already it's almost halfway through the year... scary... and only about 4weeks till exams start... even scarier :(

anyway though, the last couple of days have been pretty good. we've had a super long weekend here in south africa, because we believe in creating as many public holidays as possible, preferably all in a row. so we've been living it up from friday through to tuesday (ok, so technically monday wasn't actually a public holiday, but the majority of people seemed to view it as one), and now we're looking at a three day week. nice! well, actually not so nice, because i meant to use this mini vac to catch up on a whole lot of work, which of course didn't get done! oh well...

so, quite a bit has happened in the last month, from what i can remember. we've had all the yoms: yom hashoa, yom ha'atzmaut, yom hazikaron, and i don't know why, but for some reason, the memorial days affected me more than usual. i found the ceremonies we attended really sad and moving! yom ha'atzmaut was fun fun fun as usual though. we have it at our local amusement park every year, and all the jews in cape town congregate to celebrate Israel's birthday. it also reminded me how much fun roller coasters are!! wow, what a thril! :)

ooh, and highlight of the month is definitely the fact that i cleaned my room!!! it's so tidy and pretty and orderly now! and i even got new bedcovers with chinese symbols - looking good! the only problem is the new cleanliness seems to be attracting the other guys, and i often come home to find them lying on my bed and watching tv series on my computer. i've already got almost all of them addicted, mwahahahaha...

and speaking of my beloved computer, the guys decided it would be fun to vandalise it last night, and i came home to find my nice innocent background replaced by gay porn!! Something which they found hilarious, but for some reason i didn't quite get the humour... although it is the general feeling of the house that i'm now also a guy, so maybe it's just their way of showing affection, hmmm.

not that i mind being a guy. i've found that it's actually quite fun, although i'm starting to feel like friends of mine outside of the house might be getting just a little bit worried, so i decided to go shopping for some, um, "feminine" attire. so now, i'm all ready for winter, decked out in jeans, boots, long jerseys and a really cute hat!! and what's really great is that the guys actually noticed, so maybe it's not so much me becoming a guy as them all becoming girls... hehehe

well, either way, it's non stop fun in the house, whether we're stressed from varsity, overtired from going out too much, bored from procrastinating and avoiding work, or, the more likely option - all three. and of course there's our monday night dinners which are always great! last night was stir fry made by kev and barnett - so good!!

ok, i'm not so sure i'm making sense anymore, so i think i'm gonna end off now and go back to my studying, got a feeling i might have a test tomorrow :(

here's to many more public holidays in the (near) future!

em (with the cute hat) :)