Studying, finals and some fun

The past two week has been full of loads of studying and time in the library, taking 2 hour finals that were all essay based, and some fun to keep me sane. On thursday October 30th, my friends Lauren and Ravi and I took a cab to the botanical gardens in Kirstenbosch. Now let me tell you, this place is absolutely beautiful!!! There are so many different gardens and places to sit and enjoy the gorgeous scenery of flowers, mountains and these really annoying geese like things. Ravi, Lauren and I took a picnic up and sat on the grass in one of the numerous gardens looking at the mountains and just enjoying each others company. The scenery was beautiful and i hope to go back again soon

these are just google images, ill put more of mine up later!!

Unfortunatly the rest of the week was full of studying with various meals as breaks. Although we did go to watch the sunset on saturday night was absolutely beautiful!! The sunsets here are amazing and every night it looks different. I am really going to miss them!! So studying and exams went well for the most part. Exams are worth at least 50% of your final grade here which is quite a lot but they were managable. All four of mine were essay format and 2 hours long so i wrote 2 or 3 essays for each exam. My hand definitly started to feel it after awhile but I made it. Its so weird to think that I am half way through my junior year but I am!!! In the end classes at UCT werent as bad as I thought but definitly a lot different from any classes or exams at Merrimack. I have liked studying here but I can't wait to get back to the small, familiar classes at Merrimack next semester!!

South African fact: Last week I wrote 4 exams instead of "taking" them like in the states.