You Know You're In South Africa When...

1) You're writing this in a 7 hour class that's broken up by tea time and lunch
2) You must keep your windows closed or monkeys will climb up in your windows and snatch your things up
3) It's no longer enough to hike to a waterfall, you must find a way to hike up it
4) The staff of the school adopts you as their own child and has you call them Baba (Father) and mother
5) You get to go running through a game reserve with a plethora of zebra
6) You wake up from a pleasant nap to a monkey on your night stand
7) You are given pepper spray to defend yourself against the monkeys who look deceivingly cute, but constantly attack people in reality
8) The guys are told in orientation to "be the bigger monkey"
9) The natives aren't even phased by the wild animals
10) You are blessed to go on some sort of excursion every Saturday
11) You get to have tea time at 10:30am and 4:00pm every day
12) When you have to stay up till 1am to watch the Superbowl
13) You are given the opportunity to bungee jump off the highest bridge in the world and if you're too chicken to jump, they'll throw you off if you ask them to
14) You are picked out wherever you go as an American, not because of your skin color, but because of your "accent" (Even though you think they're the ones with the accents)
15) Fifty-five students of various ages and majors become a close-knit family
16) You will see more HIV positive patients in one day at a clinic than you have ever seen in your entire life
17) You will be hit on by an Egyptian and a Spaniard while at an Indian Ocean beach and you will turn them down
18) Your heart will be broken into so many pieces that you will not know where to begin in putting it back together
19) You come to the realization that God understands every single language, including Zulu and all the various clicks in the language
20) You learn how to speak Zulu and find yourself so excited when you get one word with a click in it correct and the Zulu people understand you, but are terrified when they answer and you have no idea what they said
21) One of your first big purchases isn't a South African painting, but a Christian mug for tea time that says, "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."