waka waka

I've just looked at the clock and it's 11:30pm. And I've just realized that I will be on a plane, headed to Africa, in less than 48 hours.

I love adventures.

Here's the plan thus far.

I leave SLC on Saturday. I have a layover in both New York City and Dubai (DUBAI!!!!). I'll land into Tanzania on my own. Sean arrives six hours later, and we'll spend the night in Dar es Salaam.

The next morning, we'll run a couple errands, and then we'll pick up Samantha from the airport. Then the three of us will board a train for Kasama, Zambia. The train ride is supposed to take 36 hours. However, Nick and Jeff are already over there, and it took 43 hours. The train broke down and it took 7 hours to fix. Crazy, huh. Apparently, this is quite the common occurrence. See what I mean about adventure? haha.

Anyhow, since Jeff and Nick are already over there and have posted a couple pictures, I thought I would post a few on here, just so you can see what I'll be up to in the next week or so.  I believe that Nick took all of these.

Dar es Salaam--rainy season.

I'm not sure where this is, actually...but either Dar, Kasama, or
somewhere in -between.

on the train ride from Dar to Kasama

28 hours into the train ride. 

Kasama, Zambia!

Just seeing these pictures made my heart skip a beat. I'm strangely not that nervous. 

I'm excited to get back to leading a busy, productive life. I've spent a large majority of the past two weeks doing nothing. I've watched countless tv shows and wasted more time than I'd like to admit. It was really great for the first week. Second week? Not so much. A whole summer of doing nothing would be awful. Good thing that my action packed

Summer 2012 is about to officially start!!! YES!

bellatrix ii

I have two roommates who are both avid Harry Potter fans. I thought I was an avid Harry Potter fan as well, but apparently not, because I hadn't joined Pottermore.

So I created an account on Pottermore. Mostly to see where the sorting hat would put me. 

With much anticipation and bated breath, I finished the questionnaire and clicked that last button.

Slytherin. The hat put me in Slytherin. But of course it did.

Haley laughed. She's Hufflepuff though, so we can probably still get along somewhat.

Katie laughed too. But she's Gryffindor. I'm thinking it's a good thing I'm moving out in four days. She associates with the likes of Ron Weasely, who once retorted, "if it means we're supposed to get matey with the Slytherins, fat chance." 

Well, in that case, no getting "matey" desired on this end either, you Gryffindor-ians.

In the future, I plan on making friends based on where they've been sorted. Obviously, if you aren't Slytherin, well, we weren't really meant to be friends anyways. If you refuse to get sorted, I shall just assume that you aren't magical, and heaven knows what should happen to squibs.