5 Nights

At least 100 Rhodes University students are sick with gastro at the moment. Could be spread throughout Makhanda, not just the university. 

Calls to be careful with the tap water and rather rely on water from dining halls. 

Kirsten was in Makhanda in the middle of this year and can attest to the fact that the drinking water is widely claimed as unsafe. 

Kirsten is also a major advocate for drinking tap water. That has recently been tested though.

Caitlin has some questions about her roommates...

Paki Lawu is raising money for prostate cancer awareness by doing this incredible physical feat

If we designed school now, instead of 100 years ago, what would it look like?

Coding, video editing, entrepreneurship, block chain, personal finance, digital design, digital content creation. Log physical workouts to gain access to eSports arena. 

Flexible learning spaces 

Spaces to take a pause. 

We are speaking less!

The average number of words spoken per day fell 28% between 2005 - 2019 based on a recent study in the US. 

Audio samples, collected randomly as people went about their daily lives, revealed that while the average person uttered about 16,600 words per day back in 2005, that figure had plummeted to below 12,000 words in 2019. 

Why?

Taz Singh is a medium, life coach and media personality.

She does some readings.

From a listener:

So, my friend and I were out on Saturday night. We’re vibing out, having a good time when this really hot guy walks past us. We both do the “Oh, he cute” silent look to each other and then carry on. Later on in the night, he comes up to my friend and starts chatting to her, little flirting and Instagrams exchanged. And then, later still, he comes up to me, chats to me and him and I exchange Instagrams. 

So then, on Sunday, I slide into his DM’s and he replies. We chatted the whole Sunday and I think it could go somewhere. I told my friend today and she’s really hurt that I slid in with him because he spoke to her first and she was waiting for him to message.  

Was I wrong for sliding in? I didn’t know this was a “dibs” situation.

Jodell found a way to slide back in with her ex this weekend.

How did you slide back in with your ex? What was the opening?

Megyn Kelly, an American TV presenter has remarked about the Cornell University case that Jane Doe wanted attention because she wasn’t attractive and that she was so excited to be getting all this male attention that she must have said yes again and again and again.

Margaret Cho: "Talking about the desirability of a survivor of an assault is so inappropriate. It's not about how we look. Sexual assault is about power." Thousands of survivors flooded the comments sharing their own versions of the same story.

What rules do you follow when lending people money?