A full week since I last updated? I must have been really busy... right?
Nope. Haven't done much of anything really. Most of my classes ended last week, although I have my last two classes of the semester today. This is ridiculous! It's not even mid-November and I'm done with classes!! What the HECK? I had a final yesterday (for drumming) and it went... well. It went, let's just say that. I hatehatehate performance assessments. I inevitably always clam up and screw up. But oh well. I can't do anything about it now.
I have another final on Thursday (Twi) which I'm only slightly worried about. I have to get a 28 out of 50 to get an A. That seems really low, right? Because at the University of Ghana, anything above a 70 is an A. Yep.
After our final I'm going home, packing up, and heading out to Mole National Park. I'ma goin' on safari!!!! My original plan was to go with Jenny towards the end of the month, but Kym didn't think she was going to be able to go at all... Now that our drumming final was so early, time has opened up and we can go on Friday. This may or may not be my only trip to the northern part of the country, so while we are there we hope to check out Larabunga and the really cool mosques that are up there... (You know me, I can't resist a good mosque when I hear about one...) I'll be gone until Tuesday night, so I'll have zero internet access this weekend and into next week...
In other, more disgusting news - check this out! http://docfiles.blogspot.com/2007/06/paederousrove-beetle-dermatitis.html
See that bug? There is a colony of those in my dorm. We saw a couple in the kitchen the other day and Rosie told me that those bugs secrete acid onto your skin by just walking on you. And that acid is actually poison that is 12 times more potent than that of a cobra! (Mom, Dad, don't worry. It has far less poison in it than a cobra does. I'd have to eat it for it to kill me.) The pictures on that website are accurate - although most of them are from when someone squishes the bug on their skin.
So, the other day Denise woke up with a weird sore on her face, just above her eyebrow, and a red line coming out of the sore onto her eyelid. We realized, after a little bit, that this bug must have FALLEN ON HER FACE WHEN SHE WAS SLEEPING and CRAWLED ACROSS HER EYE. She's okay, and she treated it so that it's almost gone. But then - I found one of these bugs in my bed last night! AHHHHH. No damage was done and the bug was removed without any contact to my skin. I promptly put my mosquito net back up (it had fallen down a little while ago and because I wasn't getting bitten at night at all... it didn't seems like I needed to put it back up.) and am on guard to catch all of his little beetle friends...
okay, I think that's all I've got.
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