March

It's been brought to my attention that I have been terribly delinquent in updating. Here is a brief overview of the last month!

I've gone to my first Kirstenbosch concerts! It was actually my first time even in Kirstenbosch botanical gardens and let me say it is absolutely beautiful. For the concerts (I saw Goldfish and Freshlyground, again) you bring a picnic and hang out on the lawn until the sun sets. Gorgeous!

I also had some unexpected visitors! A colleague of my dad's and her partner came to Cape Town and we were able to catch up and have dinner. It was lovely to catch up with some Philly area folks at our fave place in Vredehoek, Sidewalk Cafe. Hosting some visitors made me EXTRA excited that my parents will be arriving soon--one week from tomorrow, in fact!

Work is going quite well as are classes. I'm particularly enjoying my economic evaluation course and am so grateful to be taking it since the study I am working on is an econ eval. I have definitely had my days when I wish I were studying health economics instead of health systems! But, I'm almost done my degree and am ready to graduate and move on. :)

I've become close with a new group of girlfriends who have been keeping me much more social! I've been venturing out to events and just hanging out much more than last year. It's really been so much fun! Tomorrow we're heading over to Stellenbosch to check out some markets and wine tasting.

I'm going to leave it there for now although I am surely leaving tons of stuff out. Will try to update again soon!

Love!
Kristen