PCTs Day Off

Hey friends! Hope everyone had a good weekend... We had our first day off in a few weeks today and it was so nice! I slept over at stephs hut next door with shauna and we had a nice gulash dinner. It was nice to be around other people after six and not in my hut eating alone! :) then, although it was our day off, we were all up by six. Oh well. We did fry up some fat cakes then and rolled them in cinnamon sugar. Oh my goodness. I didnt think fat cakes could get better... But they did!! Then at eight, eric and i headed to the hotel near us and walked down to the falls and spent the morning waking around and taking im the beautiful forest and falls. We then headed to the craft centre next door and had some delicious chicken nuggets and french fries. Then, after a stop at the store for groceries and a scrumptous doughnut, we went and made hamburgers, fries and guac at his hut. We shared half a burger with his gogo and she loved it! She also gave me all the credit for it as well as a head of lettuce from the garden! Sorry Eric. It was honestly one of the best food days ive ever had! After two months of maize, maize and more maize, chicken nuggets and a hamburger were heavenly. We only have language class in the morning tomorrow, so we are making chicken pot pies tomorrow and also bought things for s'mores so im pretty excited for that. The s'mores might be interesting because there are no graham crackers here so we are using Tennis biscuits (biscuits or emabiscuit in siswati = cookies) and the best chocolate we could find was mint chocolate (and by mint they mean there are flakes of peppermint candy within the chocolate bar and the marshmellows we found are pink. So this should be interesting. Weve also become emabiscuit connisuers and have found new flavors like cherry fizz, in a pick 'n pay near you! :) But the day off is over and i have language and technical homework to do tonight... I am excited for this week because we are learning about the life skills and hiv education classes to teach in the schools which i am very interested in doing, as well as epidemiology on thursday which i am also very interested in. Then this weekend we have host family appreciation party because two weeks from today is swearing in! In two weeks i will officially be a peace corps volunteer! Hopefully. I have to pass my final language exam first. But it seems like it is going to rain, meaning my electricity is probably going to go out soon. Meaning i should do my assignments while i still have light! Miss you all and hope youre doing well. Shoot of an fbook message if you get bored. Thats probably the best way to get a hold of me now. That and twitter. My email and viewing my blog and its comments are too expensive on my phone. But fbook, twitter, 4square and posting a blog entry have mobile views so it is less expensive. Keep of posted on life back home!! Love, Megan