the irony of life: youth day (an official public holiday in south africa), is on the 16th of june… june is that time of the year when students recycle washing, scholars draw spots on their faces with markers and moms pace around their kitchens with anxious tension. yes, june is exam time. and the strangest thing is that the 16th of june, happens to be in the middle of the month, which also happens to be (by some miracle of nature) the middle of exams!! well would you believe it…
ok, so before you think that i’m the village idiot regarding history let me offer a few tit-bits on this ever so conveniently placed public holiday. the 16th of june 1976 marks the day of the soweto uprising, in which very many students were killed because they refused to accept being taught in afrikaans (well, that was the spark that set the fire off – it was a number of contributing factors). the saddest thing about the 1976 uprising is that children were the victims of the atrocitities. ok, it’s it from me, but, there’s a happy stash of information on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apartheid) if you’re interested.

on a completely different note…

me last paper is on thursday… yes, yes, you can stop happy dancing now! it’s psych (paper 2 – duh!!) and aside from being grossly dissatisfied with the entire psych course so far, i’m quite excited (and keen) to write this paper ‘cause it means that at 4pm on thursday the 22nd of june, my holiday officially starts, and that i’ll have the horrible first semester over and done with and out of the way… yippee… (you may recommence the happy dance).