Cheers and Jeers! update

Cheers!
-Being in Africa a month!
-Feeling at home in Gabs.
- Obama winning South Carolina.
- The rains finally stopping! Botswana has seen more rain in the past 3 weeks then it has in about 12 years. It was really intense.
- Being able to have an elementary conversation in Setswana. I kind of feel like a big deal now.
-Being able to go to happy hour with Batsi, the love of my life, and program leader on Friday afternoon
- Being able to go out to lunch with Batsi and his wonderful and beautiful children on sat Ages 10 and 9.
- Becoming a Gaborone WASP for a day. Sunday a few friends and i went to the Gaborone Yacht Club for lunch. You may be asking, Elizabeth, are you crazy? Gaborone is in the dessert, there is no water for MILES! well that is when i would have nicely informed you that there is a man made dam here and that is where the yacht club is (when we all first saw the signs we were laughing pretty hard). Well once you travel about 4km down a dirt road off the main road you get to the yacht club. It is beautiful, don't get me wrong, it has the natural raw beauty, that I have found all over Botswana. However, they do not have food here, and only a bar with a thatched roof. Sadly our hungry tummies could not full, but the surrounding beauty of the dam itself was enough to fill our eyes completely full. the birds out there were awesome. Well after we traveled somewhere else to go get some lunch, my friend Sarah and I went to our riding lesson. For 60 pula (9 USD) we had an hour long horse back riding lesson. I know how to trot on a horse now! it was a very exciting and fun. However, my legs and butt are still very sore, its 3 days later. The stables were just as beautiful and RAW as the yacht club, they are owned and run by a woman named Kern, who I think is the Soul and best Anti-smoking campaign i have ever seen in my life. It was a really fun day, i now refer to it more as, WASP goes to wild west. But let us be honest with our selves, can you picture me having it any other way?
- Getting mail from my mom and dad. Thanks guys!
-being asked by a woman who works at the grocery store if she could touch me . . . She had never touched a white person.

Jeers.
- Daily/Nightly black outs because there is a power shortage in All of Southern Africa.
- Going into my second week of not having hot water. Things to consider: Showering, Washing dishes, Forgetting or hoping that today is the day that it will be fixed and then getting into the shower and no hot water.
- as well as a kitchen sink drip that is just out side my door and oddly loud.
- the swimming pool being dirty. Its just such a nice pool it is really a shame.
-Not having internet (i know that i have used this as a cheers before and it is, but sometimes i just want to look something up).
- Teachers who tells you in your HIV/AIDS class that a theory for how it has started and spread was by a fighter jet that passed and dropped fumes of HIV/AIDS, thus spreading it to many many people. Sometimes the prof's here give wrong information, it can be funny sitting in your chair thinking, "wrong, thats just wrong". But that is when it is about harmless things, if anything My HIV/AIDS preventions and control class should really have all her information together.

this was not proof read because i have to go to class, thanks for understanding!
Go Well.