botswana!

My butt hurts from all the planes/sitting around, but I’ve finally arrived in Botswana! We don’t get internet in our dorms and have to walk quite far to get it, so... sucks. Also, I lost my luggage. Sucksx2.

Creepy men here/in the Johannesburg airport. A man who claimed to work for Delta asked if he could buy me a beer or at least a coffee. He kept asking me the same questions (obviously we weren’t communicating very well), and then he told me he noticed me messaging on my computer earlier. CREEP ALERT. So I replied, “Actually I need to finish working on my computer, so I’m going to go. Bye!” BUT THEN HE FOLLOWED ME!!! Thankfully he eventually fell asleep and nothing really happened, except he kept waking up for 3 seconds to tell me that I should sleep. I got kind of paranoid that he was waiting for me to sleep so he could steal my stuff... but I felt bad about leaving him in case his stuff got stolen. Anyways, this morning he asked me what gate I was going to so that he could wait with me... I lied and went into the bathroom. Thankfully he did not follow me there.

After I escaped from Delta man, I went to find coffee... The man working the coffee counter asked me where I’m from, and then he straight up asked, “Can I get an e-mail from you?” What? And then he scribbled his name, cell phone number, and email on the back of a receipt and gave it to me. I just hope that this is just a weird creepy-airport-men-in-South-Africa thing and not indicative of what life will be like in the next 2 months...

By the way, I have an embarrassingly hard time understanding people’s English here (here meaning South Africa, but I suspect the same will be true in Botswana). Also, even more embarrassing: I keep saying South America instead of South Africa. Out loud. Yikes.