*sigh*

What a day so far...I woke up not really sure of what I was going to do at 7 in the morning..i eventually went to the gym wif my roommate and Friend? lol..Guess in the process of living with each other for so long and going through so much together since we came to Cape Town on the 26th of January 2010..I was reading and deleting smses from that day earlier today..smses from the airport when we were so excited and happy and hopeful and what a different and interesting journey It has turned out to be..crashing with a senior student at the Woolsack residence on middle campus..looking in the shadiest of places for a place to say while other students moved into res AND [this is the important bit I forgot at the time] OTHER students were in a similar if not worse postion..at least we had somewhere to squat....somewhere relatively quiet where we were fot the most part unnoticed..We find out after moving into Leo Marquard hall that there were many many like us and that like many many experiences we have as people..they were common...Ive often thought afterwards that had I received a place in residence BEFORE coming to UCT I would not have appreciated everything in the manner that I do now..Heard a senior student complain about Saturday lunch and I thought since when are Burgers and chips and a whole range of salads considered bad lunch..maybe because in those first few days I survived on buying loads of expensive junk food that cost way too much and maybe because back home lunch on a Saturday..unless it was month end was never like that..6slices of buttered bread was always enough for me with a some rooibos tea and now I eat in one meal what wouldve been enough for two at home..I doubt any of this wouldve come to me had everything just clicked into place..I needed a reminder in those first few days that life was still life and nothing was going to be delivered on silver platter and that work and patience was going to be needed...speaking of patience thats the whole reason I started to write...