I can SO cook in South Africa

So, I was supposed to be in orthopedics today, but that didn’t end up happening again. Actually, nothing happened today. I honestly didn’t do anything. Except finally get money (:

Both of my debit cards somehow got demagnetized, leaving me with unworking cards and no access to my money for almost two weeks. Finally the bank did something for me and had me go to one of the South African banks where they had money waiting for me. Yayy. I was SO happy. I had been on the phone with the bank every single day for the past week and a half, and I was very very tired of it. As soon as I came home with money in hand, Joan looked at me and said “OoOo, this girl is happy!!” and I really was. I’m not surprised that she could see it all over my face.

Miles, Lauren and I finalized our plans for the weekend today as well. Lauren is leaving a week before Miles and I; her internship was only a month’s time, so she’s leaving next weekend, which means we need to get everything done that we want to do THIS weekend. We made a list of everything we still needed to do, and planned out exactly when we are going to do it all. It felt good to be organized. We picked up our rental today, and then went to get ingredients!

We three decided we wanted to do something for Avril since she was having a very stress filled week. To be all American, we decided we would make her cookies. We found a recipe with South African friendly ingredients, and headed to the grocery store in search of the necessary items. It took us a while to find them all, but we were eventually successful and came home to start cooking. We ran into a couple of problems with metric conversions….and our cookies were pretty much a flop. So, we decided to make cookies with the recipe that was on the back of the chocolate chips (that took forever to find, and then they weren’t even really chocolate chips). The recipe worked, but they were “South African” cookies, which are quite different than what we consider cookies. We ended up going to the store and buying more ingredients to make banana pudding just in case. Since the second batch of cookies worked out, we gave her those and the banana pudding, plus a card we found for her. At least it wasn’t a complete disaster…haha