Xenophobia BBall, Rugby, and Jesus

Well I hope I have given you all ample time to read up on your African Human Rights Activists I listed in the last post. I'll forgive you if you didn't look up most of them (I realize time is a precious thing), but if you haven't looked up anything on Desmond Tutu, you should really stop reading this post until you know a little something about him. There will be a quiz so get reading! (just kidding, no quiz, but seriously--read up!)

Ok, enough nagging....I guess I should fill you in on what has been happening for the past week. Well, classes went about as usual although I had 2 tests in Xhosa which went ok. That language is just nothing like English, there are so many consonants next to each other and those 3 different clicks will get ya! At least it wasn't an oral test, I would've been in for it then. There is however and oral exam at the end of the semester which is worth 30% of my grade--yikes!!! Anyways, this weekend there was a basketball tournament that I got signed up for to raise awareness for the Xenophobia attacks that happened last month. I was supposed to play for the East African Society that I joined, but through a serious of events, I wasn't able to play on Saturday, but most of my housemates went and were pretty hilarious to watch. We were the only white people there and played against teams from Angola, Kenya, West Africa and the like. It was pretty intense to say the least.

I left early so that I could go to a friends' highschool rugby game in which they lost :( But it was still a great experience and it reminded me a lot of football back home. To add to that sweet reminder that I will be missing the greatest season for Mizzou football (oh the tears are flowing!!) we went to a pub to watch the South African Rugby team play against New Zeland which was a HUGE deal! Yet another reminder of the commeraderie of fans in football....sigh....you guys will have to keep me posted on how my tigers do, ok? But anyways, it was a bad day for rugby in South Africa because they lost miserably. It was pretty painful too.

I finally got to go to church for the first time since I've been here this Sunday and it was a much needed break from my crazy life at the house. It is always amazing to worship with believers halfway around the world knowing that we believe in the same God. Even though I didn't know the congregation, we all had something in common and that something was eternal. After church, we had a braai (BBQ, they are EXTREMELY popular here) and made some amazing burgers. Gotta love good company and good food on a Sunday afternoon.

That should catch you guys up for the week. Hopefully this week we will finally start our service work. I have a meeting tomorrow with some women in Khayelitsha who are interested in an IT class which is so exciting! I will post in a few days to let you know how this goes, but for now, I should go to sleep...now that I think about it, class starts in 8 hours. Hmmm, nap tomorrow is a must! Goodnight all!