The braai on Friday went fairly well, except that we followed all the instructions given to us by Buyiswa and still managed to offend people because we only provided food for 30- ourselves and the people in the park we work with. We didn't know that we were supposed to be feeding two other groups of workers as well. Hopefully our faux pas doesn't affect us too much. I cooked all the chicken (it took several hours) and Matt made the salad. Next time, we are making it a pot luck.
This picture is of Cape Town City hall and library.
Friday night was halloween, and they don't really celebrate that much here. We went to the News Cafe for dinner, the food was decent but not exceptional. Afterward, we headed out on the town to see what was going on for Halloween. We went to Long Street, and the Dubliner, but after an hour or so, about half of us left to go to a club. We went to Hemisphere, one of the nicer clubs in Cape Town, located at the top of a 32 story building, with windows on all sides. Unfortunately, we didn't know the minimum age was 25, and that most of the people in the club were over 40... but they let us in anyway. It was fun, but there weren't other people our age to dance with. We left around 2 am and headed home.
The next day was low key, I went out to lunch and to the waterfront with Laura and Debra, and we went to the Two Oceans aquarium which was nice. It was smaller than Mystic, but had sharks, penguins, giant rays, a sea turtle and a kelp forest, so it ended up being enjoyable. We stayed in on Saturday night because we'd planned to climb Table Mountain on Sunday. The weather didn't work out however, so we went shopping on Sunday instead because it was raining and there was now view. I bought a gold Africa pendant for my necklace, its really nice and has a diamond on it. And it was cheap. Sweet deal.
Monday was the ZERI orientation in the park,which consisted of learning about radical methods of water purification (naturally spiraling) and changing production processes. It was interesting to say the least, then we worked on different design aspects of how to rebuild an area of the park behin the community centre that was damage in a fire this weekend.
Today we are meeting with our advisors, hopefully coming up with an acceptable project and going to the Cape Town library. After some Kauai burgers of course. That is most definitely my new favorite restaurant. And theres gelato right next door.
The project aspect is frustrating. Really frustrating. But hopefully things will work out this week.
6 comments:
Thanks for writing so much!! Andrea sucked hardcore on that. I always miss you when you im me! it sucks. this term is so busy :( Talk to you later!!
Haha this is true. I'll talk to you later. I'm so excited that Alaina is actually moving in.
Greetings Amanda! Your travel journal is very well-written and really interesting! I'm curious, maybe you could add a bit on are the locals saying about our president- elect? Happy to bust into your blogosphere just to let you know I'm reading what you are posting.
Oli
Hi Manda, Just to let you know that Dad and I are enjoying your blog from a distant Shore! Oli, I read in the courant today that Nelson Mandela sent a congratulatory letter to President-Elect Obama. It really is an exciting time for many people. Love, mom
I'm still curious to know if people are buzzing about Obama or do they even care? How do they seem to feel about Americans in general? In recent webnews, South African President Kgalema Motlanthe said Obama was good for people from the continent of Africa and from the "diaspora". I wonder how to pronounce his name and what the heck is a diaspora?
Mom's courant and seagulls, sound like connecticut.
People aren't overly concerned with American politics here, they have far more of their own political issues to deal with, such as the fact that their probable candidate for president has past rape charges and a huge corruption scandal. Their main political party also just split, which is causing a little bit of unrest.
They seem to like Americans, mostly they just laugh at us because we are very casual compared to them. Like Europeans, they dress up a lot, and we wear jeans and a t shirt to dinner, and to clubs. The people in the settlements envy us being Americans, and the elders have said that they have problems with the younger ones wanting to give up their South African ways to become more Americanized.
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