The Last Week

The last week. THE LAST WEEK!

The last week was a very sad week for me. I don't want to go!

It was weird because everybody was leaving gradually:
Sunday Bella and Ana leave to go back to Colombia.
Monday, at Pieter's birthday in Spur, we had to say goodbye to Michelle (also Colombia).
Emma had organized a goodbye party for us on Thursday. That was basically the time for us to say goodbye to our closest friends and (new) families.

The Dutchies actually had a very busy day on Wednesday. To start off Di picked us all up and brought us to Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden. I had been there before, but now we had time to actually "look around". Now what I mean by "look around" is the exchange definition of spending most of our time hanging around on a bench, eating a second breakfeast and looking around the souvenir shop! Nevertheless, we had a blast!
Next stop was Stellenbosch. You can compare Stellenbosch to Leiden back home, in the sense that it is a university town. And it's tiny. There were only about two streets for us to explore, but they were a very cute two streets.
Last on our agenda was Rhodes Memorial. It's a lovely place to take pictures of Cape Town from up top.
The day ended with a visit back to Bishops to watch their musical 'Oklahoma'. I saw a couple of guys on stage and just thought; wow. I never would've expected them to be that good, not in a million years.

The goodbye party on Thursday was sad and a blast at the same time. It was sad because it was our goodbye party and we had to book our tickets there. But it was great at the same time, because your surrounded by friends, family and people who love you. The night was filled with suffing our face with delish South African goodies and some spontaneous swimming in the pool.

Life here is too good. I have such mixed feelings on going back home. On the one hand I want to see my family again, but on the other hand I've made so many new memories here, and I am going to miss my Cape Town family so much!