It's Coming to an End

This past week has been HECTIC!

I think I'll give you an update the same way I did for my last post.

Sunday:
Spent the morning at Camps Bay beach and had my first ever pizza, with a hole in the middle! They say it's to help you cut down the calories, yeah right!
Spent the afternoon at a Goldfish concert for a friends birthday concert. The concert was held in Kirstenbosch botanical garden. If there is one tip I can give to all concert-goers; know the chorus to most of their songs BEFORE you go. You will end  up having great time bobbing up and down, losing your voice.

Monday:
Exchangees school trip to a township. During our visit we; Played with little kids in the Rainbow nursery. Got a tour of the main ground. Spoke to uncle Frank who had some very big dreams for the furure. He was actuallly very inspirational and told us to never give up on our dreams and you can't really love if you're attatched to material things the whole time.
Tried a 'vetkoek', which is basically just an oliebol. Everyone loved them!

Tuesday:
Spent the day at the boy's school, Bishops. I got paired with Jamian, who was kindly was tourguide of the day and answered all questions I could possibly think of.
It was very weird having all of these eyes staring at you the whole time, but what else were we supposed to expect, right?
Dinner in a Jamaican restaurant called Banana Jam! I had the Reggae rice, a vegetarian dish. At this point my body can't process the amount of meat I'm eating lately, so I needed a break from that.

Wednesday:
Annick's host mom, Di took Annick and I to see Cape Point for the first time. We had a hilarious "game drive". We saw not one, not two, but four tortoises! Then we walked all the way to the point and saw a dassie. It's like a huge mountain guinea pig.
That night I went to ballroom dancing again at Bishops. And if the guy's toes weren't crushed the last time, they definitely were this time! We attemted to dance the waltz, the rumba and rock 'n roll style.

Thursday:
Another school outing to False bay, where we went surfing! Now, I say surfing lightly. What I actually mean is; we looked like a bunch of penguins trying to waddle on top of moving surfboards. Actually, now that I mention it, remember the movie Surfs Up? Yes?Well, I wasn't anything like that unfortunately.
After school, off to Access Park with Annick. I don't know how else to describe it other than an outlet centre. But the only items that really that really appealed to us were the food items, so we ended up having a picknick on the edge of a walking path.

Friday:
The boys spend a day at Herschel, but we weren't allowed to go anywhere near them, barely even allowed to look at them. But eventually all the exchangees ended up in the library signing flags. How sad is that? That means it's almost the end of our exchange!
After school we all went to Cavendish shopping to get the Columbians their last Frio :( (Lindt chocolate milkshake type thingy)
That night all the girls had to waitress for the Matric Dance (Last year dance). Our job mainly consisted of us  scoffing down what the matric wouldn't eat, so we had about four mango meringues each that night, yum!

Saturday:
Went to see my first Rugby match with my host dad. Actually my first match ever! It was the South African Stormers against the New Zeeland Chiefs. And we won 36-34
That night was Bella and Ana's, the Columbians farewell party :'(  We signed some more flags and it was a very depressing night for us all,  they can't be gone already!!

Sunday:

We spent breakfeast on a picknick blanket. Watch the Argus cycle tour. It's the biggest timed cycle race in the universe (my host dad made me say that). There were lots of peopl there. And people dressed up as fairies. And rhino's. And cows.

I'm pretty sure you're tired of reading this very, very long blog. As I am writing it.

That was my week.

We're about to have a braai now.

Buenos Nachos!

Ps. Please ignore all spelling and grammar mistakes. My brain is going into typing overdrive and can't handle looking at the screen anymore. Nevertheless, enjoy!