we all know that life has it challenges
how boring would it be if everything was easy
God wants us to live a life to the extreme
So how about you start living that life today!
xoxo
Monday, April 18, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Road Trip!! Winter day at the beach!
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| Road Trip! |
Coming from a coastal town, you don't realise the value and beauty of living that close to the ocean until you miss it. So, I basically made my friends drive the 5 hour drive to the beach and back one 'sunny' winters day in Feb, just to put my feet in the ice cold water and smell the fresh ocean air and then drive back! But t it was sooo worth it!
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| yay!! the ocean! |
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| Cold!! |
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| Sophia inspecting that her pedicure is still intact :) |
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| Oliver! |
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| mmm...bloody mary!! |
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| lunch! Tuna something |
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| Agon the Duke model :) |
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| Agon's favourite position - behind the camera |
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| Green tea and fudge time! |
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| Voete! |
We went to a small quaint town called, Wilmington, where they film 'One Tree Hill' (did you know that?) but I didn't see Brooke or Haley or Nathan, or any of them even though I was looking out for them! And then we went to the beach near there called Wrightsville beach. It was a great mini road trip, with ice-cream, fudge and lots of sing-along in the car!
xoxo
Most of these pics were taken by Agon Maliqi
Monday, April 4, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Happy Week-end for those that have a week-end!
For those that think I am having a fantastic party on week-ends let me just correct that thought for you...
these days week days and week-ends are all the same to me...I have to write papers, do group assignments and study for tests. In fact I am waiting on my group to arrive right now on a Saturday morning as I write this blog. I haven't slept properly (like going to bed at 2-4am) every night for the past couple of weeks and if you see me right now, you would not believe that I actually walk around looking like this. I am in desperate need of a makeover!
Yay for my life! The upside is that there is only 3 more weeks left of this semester. Just taking it one day at a time!
Happy week-end everyone :)
Xoxo
Friday, April 1, 2011
Seasons are beautiful!!
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| Richmond in the Fall :) |
Its funny because I never really paid much attention to the change in seasons (or talked as much about the weather) before I came to the States. I suppose its because the change in seasons are not so extreme in SA as it is in the US. Here people definitely look forward to the Fall (Autumn) cause its so darn hot and humid in the Summer as well as to the Spring cause that means the harsh Winter has passed.
I am definitely more accustomed to a temperate climate without much less extreme temperatures and here in the US Fall and now Spring are definitely my favourites! The colours of the trees here in Autumn are just amazing and I especially love the red trees. And then in Spring, all the Cherry Blossoms come out and everything is pink!
xoxo
Saturday, March 26, 2011
March Madness!!
Yes I know I've been a bad blogger! sorry to everyone that has been following my blogs regularly but I am back! So my plan is to start from the most recent and what is happening currently and then work my way backwards ( hopefully not to far back as I know that you dont wanna be reading no old news) a bit and let you in on what has been keeping just so busy exactly!
Ok, so for those that have been keeping up a bit with my facebook statuses, you may have noticed that I might have mentioned the words' Go Duke' more than a few times...well..the truth is that I am completely and totally obsessed with Duke Basketball! The Blue Devils (I know, I would have preferred it not to be 'devils' too but what can I do?), anyway, there are the best team ever! So what's happened is that we have the league team games that they play most of here at school, then we have the ACC tournament which is kinda like a regional tournament and then we have the NCAA which is the National Championship and is referred to as 'March Madness' where basically everybody stops what they're doing and watches college basketball for the month of March. Seriously, the US GDP drops by like 0.5% in March because people are not working. The equivalent of what happened during the 2010 World Cup for us!
So for the home games here at Duke, the tickets are crazy competitive. There are only one of a few ways to get them:
1. You buy season tickets for about $20 000 for the year and you get the privilege of being called an 'Iron Duke' (those are these rich people who live around here and who either went to Duke or their whole family went to Duke or whatever)
2. You participate in what's called 'Campout' where the graduate students from the all the different schools campout in October for a week-end and basically live in either an RV,a U-haul or a tent for a week-end and have to respond to drills during the day and in the middle of the night to check if your whole group is still there.
3. You are a Duke grad student (like me) and you just go to the game one hour before the time, show your Duke card and get into the game for free!
I'm sure there will be many more Duke Basketball posts to follow!
Ok, so for those that have been keeping up a bit with my facebook statuses, you may have noticed that I might have mentioned the words' Go Duke' more than a few times...well..the truth is that I am completely and totally obsessed with Duke Basketball! The Blue Devils (I know, I would have preferred it not to be 'devils' too but what can I do?), anyway, there are the best team ever! So what's happened is that we have the league team games that they play most of here at school, then we have the ACC tournament which is kinda like a regional tournament and then we have the NCAA which is the National Championship and is referred to as 'March Madness' where basically everybody stops what they're doing and watches college basketball for the month of March. Seriously, the US GDP drops by like 0.5% in March because people are not working. The equivalent of what happened during the 2010 World Cup for us!
So for the home games here at Duke, the tickets are crazy competitive. There are only one of a few ways to get them:
1. You buy season tickets for about $20 000 for the year and you get the privilege of being called an 'Iron Duke' (those are these rich people who live around here and who either went to Duke or their whole family went to Duke or whatever)
2. You participate in what's called 'Campout' where the graduate students from the all the different schools campout in October for a week-end and basically live in either an RV,a U-haul or a tent for a week-end and have to respond to drills during the day and in the middle of the night to check if your whole group is still there.
3. You are a Duke grad student (like me) and you just go to the game one hour before the time, show your Duke card and get into the game for free!
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| This is my fab five choice! |
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| This is our star...Kyrie Irving! |
I'm sure there will be many more Duke Basketball posts to follow!
Monday, November 8, 2010
Durham - The City of Medicine
Hello lovelies,
Not sure if I showed around campus and town yet, if not, then this post is way overdue! Durham is an interesting town (they say city, but this is not a city), lots of intellectual people live here apparently. Here are some random facts about Durham that you might not have known (Americans love to rank everything!) :
# 1 Greatest Basketball town to visit (with Duke being the best in the country)
# 1 Best Place to Retire
#1 in America's Foodiest Town (haha! who rank's the foodiest town!)
# 2 Best Green Cities
# 4 Most Affordable city to live
# 6 in America's smartest cities
# 7 Best place for college students to live
You can click here if you want to read more about Durham's "Accolades".
Here are some of my pics from the first couple of weeks!
xoxo
Not sure if I showed around campus and town yet, if not, then this post is way overdue! Durham is an interesting town (they say city, but this is not a city), lots of intellectual people live here apparently. Here are some random facts about Durham that you might not have known (Americans love to rank everything!) :
# 1 Greatest Basketball town to visit (with Duke being the best in the country)
# 1 Best Place to Retire
#1 in America's Foodiest Town (haha! who rank's the foodiest town!)
# 2 Best Green Cities
# 4 Most Affordable city to live
# 6 in America's smartest cities
# 7 Best place for college students to live
You can click here if you want to read more about Durham's "Accolades".
Here are some of my pics from the first couple of weeks!
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| At Sarah.P. Duke Gardens - (A 'bit' like Kirstenbosch) |
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| In front of Duke Chapel |
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| Another view of Duke Chapel |
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| Concert in the Tobacco District |
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| One of 2 buildings where I spend most of my time! Rubenstein |
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| The other one - Sanford Building |
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| Linzay in front of the best take out in America! |
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| Rev Dr Rinquest preaching in the Divinity School |
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| Organ inside the Duke Chapel |
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| Linzay & I in front of Duke Chapel |
xoxo
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