Post #2

Just wanted to say a few more words about a couple of things because I keep getting questions:
Weather: The weather here is really strange. Right now it's on the back end of winter, yet it's warm enough most days to wear shorts and a short sleeved shirt. At night it gets colder, but still not too cold, except for a few nights. Pretty soon it'll get a lot warmer and probably be in the 90s/100s by the time I leave. It's also gotten really windy here, and there are pretty moderate to heavy winds almost all the time. This just happened in the last 2 weeks. It hasn't rained once since I arrived, in nearly a month.

Class: My two classes are in Politics and Philosophy. The Philosophy course is an examination of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. It's quite a complicated text, but the long and short of it is that Nietzsche uses an historical evaluation to question "The value of our values." Basically, Nietzsche wants to cast light on how Christians in 19th Century Europe arrived at their system of values, and open the door for others to examine the intrinsic nature of these values.

Politics is a course on the study of Democratisation in the western world, focusing mainly on ancient Athens, Britain, the United States, and South Africa.

Both these course will change later in the semester, I'm not yet sure what I'll be taking then.

This weekend I will be doing some traveling. The Tri-varsity is a massive sports tournament between Rhodes and two other regional schools, and the big event is the rugby, although other sports will be played. It is in Alice, a small town outside Port Elizabeth, and that is all day Saturday. If I decide not to go to that, I may end up traveling to the beach, but I should have pictures either way.

Next week is the Tri-nations rugby in Durban, and we'll be leaving on my birthday, Thursday the 21st, and riding a bus through the night to Durban. Then we'll have all day Friday to explore the city, and then head to the Tri-nations game on Saturday evening. Should be a lot of fun!