The Life!

Things are looking even more up since last I wrote!

Firstly, Thomas is home! He is in the other room doing his ironing as I type this. I get a weird joy out of doing normal things with him. Cooking and eating dinner, watching TV, being here when he gets home (or vice versa) is a beautiful kind of normal that we've never had before. Yesterday we went shopping and got some much needed things for our kitchen. Today's task is trying to figure out space for our (ahem, his) clothing. A pretty lazy Sunday before I begin Biostatistics tomorrow!

Last week was a good one at school. Monday began the block of Public Health and Society. This was a course I wasn't too interested in taking initially, but it's required, and I'm glad that it is! The three days we had were taught by health historian, so we studied definitions of public health from different time periods and also important health documents from South Africa. It really helped to contextualized where we are coming from and where we are going. Our first assignment is to do a comparison of different syllabuses of different time periods for public health at UCT. Hmm should be interesting!

On Wednesday, I went out to lunch with a few people from class: Kim and Whitney from the States, Yas from Swaziland (now a South African permanent resident through marriage), Federico from Colombia, and Bob from Swaziland. They're some of my favorite people I've met so far, so it was nice to spend more time with them. We also had a delicious lunch at a health food place. I had the most amazing mushroom and potato pie and fruit smoothie.

I also broke down Wednesday and finally started an antibiotic for my sickness. It seems to have done the trick, I'm feeling better everyday!

As I mentioned before, I was without internet for a week, but I should be more available in the coming week. Thomas and I are also talking about getting a different type of internet so that I will have it at home all of the time. Hopefully coming soon!

My days off (Thursday and Friday) were eaten by necessary repairs to our apartment. However, I now have a working front gate and no hole in the bedroom ceiling! It also gave me a chance to read. I just finished A Widow For One Year by John Irving, which Jennifer recommended to me. A wonderful book, I highly recommend it if you're looking for some well told fiction! I did also attempt to open my bank account on Friday, but they weren't happy with my proof of address. Hopefully I'll have it sorted out by the end of this week.

Excited for the coming week: intrigued to see what biostat is like (I'm thinking I will enjoy it, but eight hours a day for three days might be a bit much), and then Thomas, his sister Louise, and I are going to see Imogen Heap on Saturday! Absolutely cannot wait. Her music has been a part of our relationship for a long time (we bought and listened to her first solo album together in 2007) and I love her music. Check it out.

Time to get back to organizing. Hope to hear from y'all soon. Love!