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It has been awhile since I have let you all know about what is going on here in South Africa. We have been extremely busy. Last week was the last week of regular classes and we started our community engagement course and community service this past week.

A couple weeks ago we had the opportunity to see the two battlefields where the Battle of Islandwana and the Battle at Rorke’s Drift were fought. We had a fun tour guide named Tony who knew all about the wars. There were some cool sights we saw, I don’t think we were prepared for the four-hour car ride both directions. We made the most out of it though.

We also went to the Drakensburg School for Boys which was about 2 hours away to see the Drakensburg Boys Choir. The Choir was very good. The Drakensburg School is a boarding school, I believe students are anywhere from 8 to 15 years old.

“The Curse of the Elephant” is one of the fun continuing games we play around campus. We have a ceramic elephant that we pass around, a different person gets the elephant everyday. Each person has to do something unique as their “curse.” The “curse” and person the elephant is given to is determined by the person who had the elephant the previous day. When I had the elephant I had to sing a full song before the prayer at every meal. The day I had the elephant we happened to be eating out at a nice Indian Restaurant. Luckily the restaurant was almost empty when I was belting out Taylor Swift’s Love Story. I gave the elephant to my friend Doris; I made her have insane hair. She had to be as creative as possible, and she was. Doris managed to put the elephant in her hair.