One month in...

A month ago today I left St. Louis off to the far far away place of Cape Town! I've been asked if it has seemed long or short, and in all honesty, I don't really know. In one sense, I feel like "wow, already a month, ok", but then I think about how I left right after Mobilise. Mobilise seems so so long ago to me now, with the month that I've had since then, so I don't really know how I feel about it.

Things have been overall going well. Mondays and Tuesdays are my most difficult days for me. Even though the last 2 weeks has been fine and noneventful going to campus, I still wake up with a sort of anxiousness about what the day will be like. I also feel more overwhelmed and alone on those days, but in it God is teaching me alot about myself and also about Him.

I've done some sightseeing, but there are many things I still want to do. It's easy for me to get a little impatient or put pressure on myself, but I'm learning that there are things that God wants me to do here right now, and I'll see everything in time. I know as I continue to make friends, those things will naturally happen, and by the time school is over, whatever I have left to see I'll start recruiting friends to do it with me :). I think there is pressure on students who go abroad to "make the most of their time" and "see the world", that I feel like I need to be doing more. However, God really showed me the other day that I am experiencing what actual life is like in Cape Town by being in this community and sharing life with them. Coming with other students, being friends only with them and seeing only the touristy things, I wouldn't actually get a sense of what it's really like here. So, ultimately, I'm getting a better experience through just being about what God has for me.

Along the lines of sightseeing though, next month I am going to Durban for Eater break! I'm really excited. Sarah, a girl my age here at Jubilee, invited me back to her home there along with a few other girls. Durban is on the eastern cape, so the opposite side of South Africa, on the Indian ocean! It also is close to the beautiful Drakensburg Mountains, where we will be going up! It's really a quick decision; she invited me on Thursday, and I booked my flight on Monday.

Alright, time to go...on to month 2!