I have finally made it to Pietermaritzburg! After a four-day road trip we have settled in here at the African Enterprise Conference center where will be staying until we leave on May 1st.

The Campus here is incredible with over 100 acres for us to explore, hike and run around on. We share the campus with about 16 little hungry monkeys who jump at any chance to get into our rooms and eat whatever is available. They're cute but only until one of them breaks into one of our rooms.

We left Cape Town Saturday morning at 4am and begin our road trip to PMB. The trip was good, but a bit long and more sitting than I would have liked. It was kinda like a retreat in the sense that we visited fun place and stayed at nice little hotels. Plus no homework! This was especially nice after all the papers and assignments we had to complete our last week in Cape Town.

On our way to P-burg we made several stops, the first of which was the Cango Caves. The Caves were amazing and huge. We walking through them I felt like I was in the movie National Treasure and looking for treasure. The next day we stopped at an Ostrich farm in which we had the opportunity to sit on an ostrich. We couldn’t ride them because it was really wet outside, but we could sit and get our picture taken. They were too smelly for me, so I decided to feed them and taken their pictures from afar. I did hold a baby one that wasn't smelly.

We drove to Port Elizabeth and stayed the night. We were supposed to have a beach day, but got completely rained out so we had a nap and read in the hotel. The next day we drove to West London and stayed there a night. And Tuesday we arrived here. We were welcome with a huge summer rainstorm which flooded the roads going into the Center, making it impossible for the bus to drive into the center. Instead we used a taxi to shuttle all 40 of us and out luggage to the center. It took quite a while.

I'm living in a cottage type house with 7 other girls. I'm taking 8 credits of Zulu over the next month and a half. We had our first class yesterday and it is going to be a challenge! I'll have to work really hard this next month and a half. Speaking of Zulu, I should go study.

Hamba kahle!