This weekend marks my last two weeks in South Africa. This past week was my last one at the creche, which would have been sadder except I don't think the kids grasped that I am going back to the school next week. However, since the pre-primary school gets out earlier than the creche, I will visit them in the afternoon before I leave for a proper goodbye.
Sadly, I must admit that Cerianne has won: I was not able to see Harry Potter on Wednesday but must wait until tomorrow. Despite my many phone calls to the bus company, there were no daytime busses that would get us to the movie theater in time to see Harry Potter in the closest movie theater, which is an hour away. Seeing it tomorrow will make for an excellent weekend though. I will also be going on a township tour on Sunday morning, for which I have been waiting my entire trip. To complete my exciting weekend, I will come back to Mamre on Sunday in time to watch the Women's World Cup finals, hoping for USA to beat Japan. I've tried to watch the games but mostly failed, even trying to wake up at 1am for a repeat of the USA-France game that ended up not being on. However, I am very determined to watch the final on Sunday and will not let the lack of tv channels stand in my way!
Other than working at the creche, watching 7 de laan, and attempting to keep up with the World Cup, I read Pride and Prejudice this week, which I know will make my sister happy. Pride and Prejudice is #6 on my list of books I've read so far, in addition to Half the Sky, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner, Into the Wild, and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I just started Devil Bones by Kathy Reich (the book series which the TV show Bones is based off of), since my options are beginning to dwindle as I don't have enough room to keep books that I buy and thus must turn to the Mamre library. If anyone has any recommendations for book #8 and possibly #9, let me know!
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