AND SO MUCH TO CATCH UP ON!! I would have posted earlier, buuuuttttt about two weeks ago I wrote a whole long entry and it got deleted because the internet here hates me. But anyways...
CAPE TOWN IS AMAZING! Went there over easter holiday (flew of course) and it is by far the most beautiful and amazing place i've ever seen in my entire life. I would so live there one day. Me, Renae (staxx), Matt, and Anna (Snickers) all stayed right downtown in the Holiday Inn like total tourists and it was definately the best hotel stay i've experienced...the receptionist booked all of our tours and worked the prices down by one hundred + rand and she said hi to us every day and would blow us kisses when she saw us haha. And we had a bar right in the reception with rediculously cheap glasses of wine, and a wonderful complimentary breakfast. And to top it all off our hotel room had a lovely view of Table Mountain! And a TV!!!! God I miss TV.... But yhea, we had private tours out to Stellanbosch wine country where we did three wine tastings and a cheese tasting which was quite the experience (I now understand why people love wine and all things wine-like so much), we took the cable car (YIKES) up Table Mountain, and we did another private tour out to Cape Point where we saw Penguins, Babboons, the Cape of Good Hope, and more. I'd upload pics but the internet has been super crappy and slow for the past two weeks. Just go on Facebook. Besides that we went to the V&A Waterfront with all the good shops and the aquarium which is by far the best aquarium i've ever seen. And I have to say, you really DO run into Minnesotans everywhere because I saw a good handful of them in Cape Town, even one from Burnsville at the airport! To top the whole trip off, when we flew out of Cape Town back to P.E. the pilot flew us around the city and over Table Mountain which gave us the most beautiful postcard-picture worthy view of the city.
We also went out to a farm the other week where we stayed with two families who host groups of international students every year purely out of desire to meet new people and play host to us. They were seriously some of the kindest people on the earth for all the did for us. Every day they made us breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks at tea time. On top of that their farms and houses were quite nice. I milked a cow and drank milk staight out of the utters (eww), got to hold baby lambs, climb a mountain, and I almost had a panic/heart attack while standing in the back of a moving pick-up truck. Its funny how you don't realize that scares the crap out of you until its about to roll over down the side of a mountain and people are telling you "lean left up there otherwise we'll roll down the side of the mountain like a bag of potatoes" :/ Yhea... Don't worry mom, I survived.
Not a ton else has been going on. Iron Man South Africa was this weekend and Port Elizabeth was craaazzzzyyyy busy with people. I would have gone but it started at 6AM and my body doesn't function at that hour. The weather here is getting on my nerves because its getting a bit chilly. Its in the 70s still during the day but this whole 60 degree nights thing isn't cool. I'm sure if I came here now from being in MN i'd be loving it but not now so much. School is winding down. I have a test tomorrow (hence the blog entry...procrastination), a test friday, and then I should have another test next week or the following. I got some papers back and did really well thank god. Voulenteering is going really well at Cheshire (a home for the disabled). We all had a Braii (South African BBQ) with some of the guys who live there and it was amazingly delicious. Too bad we all got way too drunk off Stroh Rum, Beer, Brandy, Jameson, and playing 7's for about two hours haha. Piet passed out in the Braii area in his wheelchair after we left lol. He was feeling pretty rough the next day. We're pretty sad though actually cause Piet is moving out of Cheshire this weekend to go back home for a job, so we're going to have a party tomorrow night with the guys again to say goodbye. He's a really great guy and i'm sure he'll be happier at home, but its sad to see him go. I'm really happy I chose to go to Cheshire cause i've really been enjoying my time there and the people i've met. I'll definately always remember it. If I ever get a chance to come back to PE one day, i'll stop in to say hey!
The other day a bunch of us went on a hike here in PE which turned more into a beach walk out on this nature reserve area. We collected a huge load of shells and climbed all over the rocks to look at tidal pools and play with sea aneminies (sp?). They're so wierd! You just put your fingers by them and the little tentacles latch onto you and feel like velcro! The sea out here is sooooo powerful. I couldn't believe how crazy those waves were crashing way out before the beach. I'm alot more into nature and stuff since being here. I'm hoping to go out to Hogsback with Anna before I leave where theres this nice hike and a gorgous waterfall. I'm just dying to go up north when I get home for some reason now. With all the nature-ness around me and the smell of Braii wood burning and smelling like a camp fire it just sparked the urge. I'm so not looking forward to getting back into fast paced America, but theres alot about home i'm really REALLY starting to miss...especially having a car! And food...lots of food...like panera, taco bell, dq, champps, gcfb, and I could just keep on going.
K well I need to study now now. I'll try to update more! That is if anyone is actually reading this haha. Cheers!
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