Happy Valentines Day (be back tues)

Mawube nosuku oluhle iwezithandani! (Happy Valentines Day) I'm leaving tomorrow for the Eastern Cape. Its a five hour drive there, and then were camping out, hiking all day saturday and then staying with a host stay families in a local village for two nights. We will meet a sangoma (a traditional healer). I'm excited to get out of the SIT house, and this trip will be a good way to see if I want to do a rural or urban independent study project for the last month of the program. This is the most rural trip we will do, dung floors etc. The government did put in long drop tiolets (essentially crummy outhouses) though apparently some are overflowing (great visual huh) and others are used for storing pots and pans and not used at toilets. We shall see I think the language here is Xhosa, dont try to say it it has a click in it, which means my zulu wont be very helpful. It will most likley be a weekend with lots of time to catch up on work and spend way to much time thinking about life. Well, you can reach me on my ZA cell phone, and I should be online for a bit tomorrow morning usual time (1250 am your time) for a bit before we depart. Hope you all have a wonderful Valentines day. I already recieved a beautiful beaded bracelet from my Mama and a beautiful card from my real mama. Well, be back Tuesday...hambani kahle