A brief update on the past week

This past week was filled with lots of planning, stress, and work, but it ended so great.

Monday through Wednesday we had our community engagement class for 7 hours each day.

Thursday we finally started at our service sites.  We only had two days which wasn't quite enough to start a large project, so we pretty much just did yard work and manual labor type stuff.  Tomorrow we will start building a house, and we will begin to be more involved with the people in the township.  The first two days weren't very eventful, but I can tell the next three weeks will be awesome.

Earlier in the week i found out that I got an RA position in the upperclassmen apartments for next year.  I am very excited to room with my good friend, Dan.  I also figured out my schedule for next semester which is such a huge relief.

On Saturday and Sunday, almost all the guys and a few girls went to Durban.  Durban is such an awesome beach town, and it was so nice to be away from campus for two days.  We had all been getting cabin fever pretty badly, and a weekend away did us all well.  We spent lots of time at the beach, found a pretty good Mexican restaurant, bought some awesome stuff at a really cheap market, got stuck in possibly the biggest thunderstorm I have ever seen, and went to a sports bar to watch South Africa come back to upset India in a very exciting cricket game.