If I don't get waken up by the sunshine sneaking in through my window, I'm woken up by my roommate's alarm. If you can't already tell she is a typical morning person, but me? I have to defrost- translation lazing around until I get the energy to properly wake up. Within that time I always say a little prayer, typically of gratitude and when I'm done I just check my socials and e-fundi, making sure I haven't missed anything. Making my way to the kitchen I make some coffee and breakfast whilst listening to music or my favorite podcast "Brown Ratz podcast". But because I had class all day today, I had to rush, translation- it was absolute chaos. In between picking out an outfit, actually getting ready and making up my bed I thought I would be done in time and I was. Until I realized on my way out the door, where is my student card? For the next 10 minutes looking frantically for it I finally found it.

Passing the foyer, the security guard always greets everyone and asks how we doing, with the occasional, what boy is stressing us out? if we look a little down. On duty today was Ous Masego, who was yelling at whoever was screaming in the building, so I just waved, in a hurry out.

On my way to campus, there's this patch  filled with flowers that attracts all these beautiful butterflies, I couldn't resist to stop and stare. Remembering that I'm late, I rushed to my first class on my way I walked by the Amphi-threathre which was fuller than normal today, walking through lover's lane I bumped into a friend Morgan from high school, so we catched up because we were headed to the same building, although when we got there we saw a guy who we both know from our town, so naturally we walked over to him yet he pretended to not see us and walk the other way. Typical at this point. This is truly a phenomena that needs to be studied, people who get to university and all of a sudden they don't have manners,  although I must say it's not everyone nevertheless,  NEEDS TO BE STUDIED.


Finally I reached class. Now I am not going to lie my first class was pretty boring, after that I went to my next class which surprisingly I loved, never thought learning about the governorment would be this interesting.

By now it's 3 o'clock and I'm back at home. Wanting to make a meal, I noticed that food is missing from me and my roommate's freezer. Someone took food  out of our fridge. Chronicles of being a student, I guess. Irritated I went upstairs to my friends and told them what happened. Although soon after our other friend Mary walked in with bouquet of roses, so we obviously had to interrogated her, she then  proceeded to tell us it was from a stranger. Telling us the story for the 3rd time of how this stranger gave her the roses, for a third time we were wheezing.
Late afternoon we helped Mary make lasagna that took us 3 hours, which nearly burnt, twice.

At night I made some notes and finally submitted my assignment. After that I got ready for bed and finished the last 2 episodes of my series I'm watching. Read my Bible , prayed and I was lights out.



Now, having shared my day, not all days look like this one. We all have different experiences and rituals which make out our days here on University, but ultimately we have the same goal, to finish, to graduate. Which is a ritual within itself, this bring me to Arnold Van Gennep's theory, the 3 rites of passage. Separation, limenality and incorporation. When deciding to get a tertiary education we are separated from our parents and our comfort zone. Coming to Nwu we had to adapt, transition to a life that at times seems uncomfortable,  in doing so we self-discover and grow as a people-this being the limenal stage of Van Gennep's theory. The stage in which I'm currently in. This then bring us to his third stage incorporation, which as I've mentioned above our goal, to graduate from rite of passage and returning back home with the knowledge we've obtained.