August 30, 2007

It was a rough start to the morning…Wednesday nights are probably not the wisest night to choose to go out, but we were all ready and waiting at the corner at 8:30 for a Kombi to NMMU! As we were waiting, there were full Kombis that kept going by and we stood out there for a bit…then all of a sudden two Kombis came flying down a side road honking, and whistling for us two guys jumped out (one from each) and both were trying to corral us into their taxi! We recognized one of the drivers as our favorite who has picked us up before and who we worked out an arrangement to have him pick us up twice a week for morning class, so we piled into his Kombi, which didn’t make the other driver too happy! We had our Global Health class this morning, and we discussed communication, group dynamics, and personalities. After our three hour class, we had a post conference session about clinical and we were all done for the afternoon, and the week! We made it through our first week of classes! Christy, Leslie, Kasy, Brenna, Laura, and I went to grab a bite to eat (I had been craving another one of the sandwiches I had our first day on campus) and as we were walking a guy came up behind us and asked us if we were the nursing students from Minnesota. We told him that we were, and he introduced himself as DiDi and explained that Alexa told him to look for us around campus this fall (well, spring to them) and he was supposed to take us out and introduce us to people! He lives in he apartment next to us, and we are planning on meeting him and his “mates” at captains for trivia and happy hour tonight. After lunch, we went to the computer lab to sit for an hour and a half. I think that the world made a complete rotation before I was even finished checking my email. I have never been on a computer that was so slow! I finally got too cold to sit in there waiting, so we left and came home. Carrie, Ashley, and I brought our laundry down to get washed and we stopped at a bakery to pick up some goodies!
The internet guys came to the flat and they FINALLY FIXED THE INTERNET!!! But as soon as they were finished we all went out to Blue Waters Café for dinner. I ordered the chicken stir fry and it was delicious! It was a huge serving, so it will double as lunch for tomorrow! I definitely want to go back to eat at Blue Waters, because the menu had such a great variety and it was hard to decide what I wanted to order! So check that off of the list of restaurants that Molly told me that I had to visit while in PE! Next on the list is Nandos! After supper, six of us met DiDi at Captains for a drink and trivia questions. We met a few of his friends, one of which studied at St. Cloud State in 2005! We talked with DiDi and we are going to all hang out on the beach this weekend, playing football and volleyball! He is a very nice guy who had lots of stories about the students who were here in the spring. Now it’s just a little relaxing and checking emails and all of that business! No class tomorrow...so I get to finally sleep in!