Wednesday 2/16

No Class! Shawn and I both don’t have class on Wednesdays. We woke up fairly early and went to Greenacres. Greenacres is this shopping mall area. It is really nice but a huge pain to get to. On the way there we had to take two minibuses. One from Summerstrand (the suburb where we live) into town and then one from town to Greenacres. The bus to Greenacres was crazy. The music was so loud I couldn’t even hear myself think! It ended up fine and we made it to Greenacres. Greenacres is a really nice mall and it is big even compared to American standards. Shawn and I looked around for a little while and then went to the ShopRite. It is basically like Walmart. I did not enjoy it at ALL because there is a meat counter in the back. (You may recall me puking because of trash) I held my breath the whole time and couldn’t wait to get out of there! We took the actual bus home which was nice because it was only R8 for the whole trip and we didn’t have to switch busses. Once we got back we had grilled cheese sandwiches and fruit for lunch. Then, we just hung out and read (well, I read!). We had a terrible supper of some “alfrado” noodles and “garlic bread”. They were prepackages noodles and the bread was just butter with some seasoning on it. Oh, well it was fun to laugh at our “meal”. After we ate we decided to go to a movie because on Wednesdays we can get in for R20. There ended up being a ton of us going so we had to take four cabs. We went to The Tourist which okay but not great. The best part of the whole thing was that they had fountain pop. NO WHERE can you find fountain pop. Restaurants, bars, everywhere, the only sell cans or bottles. So the pop was very refreshing-it even had some ice! The popcorn didn’t have butter only salt. It tasted like high school sporting event popcorn, definitely not worth the money! We didn’t get back from the movie until around 10:30 and then we Skyped with Karmen for a little while. We went to bed right away after that because we had class at 7:45 the next morning!