I started my practicum this past Thursday and i am very excited to be
there! The staff are all very nice and Mondays and Tuesdays are when clients
queue up for screenings and stuff so should be quite busy then. And not a
bother with the trains that seemingly everyone was freaking out about back
home, i take the train to the southern suburb of wynberg and it’s not bad at all.
So no more worrying, people! i bought a first class pass but honestly, i am not
even sure if i’ve been riding in the first class or not as all the carriages
look the same to me. Meh!
Is my first weekend here in Cape Town n I ventured out to long st on the Friday
which is where everyone says to go but then got taken to dodgiest locals bar/club
where am sure no tourist has ever ventured into so obviously was funnnnn! I dunno
if it’s just at this place, but there’s some pretty entertaining fashion choices
being made around here. For example, cut-off denim shorts with converse high
tops and an empty backpack on a dude...why? i dunno.
Saturday finally took one of those double decker tourist buses for the
first time as i had a free voucher and it was great! Though i’ve ventured
around the city centre and waterfront on my own, it’s good to get a better
grasp on where everything is. Plus it took us round to the other side of table
mountain which is gorgeous beachy suburbs like camps bay so we hopped off there
for a while. The water is freezing here, something to do with the wind blowing
all the warm water out to sea so the cold water rises but the beaches are so
nice must go there more often. And honestly have never seen people have so much
FUN at the beach! Everyone is laughing and running around the waves like it’s
the best thing ever, it’s quite great.
Otherwise, am just a tad hungover right now and the little brain seems a
bit slow so not much more to say for now...is actually cloudy today so not sweating and just having a nice lie in in bed right now on a sunday pretty wonderful. already fried myself up a cheeseburger at 10 am. anyway, as my internet connection is
complete shit here n i’ve finally got a connection right now figure i should
write something. Soo random thoughts: there are a million kfcs here (yes i’ve
already eaten there). Pedestrian street lights seem to serve no real purpose
other than for decoration or something as we all cross on red but i’ve almost
been run over when it’s on green. the supermarket i go to closes at 5 on a saturday and 2 on a sunday i found out yesterday at 5:05pm dammit. that's something a grocery shopping enthusiast/fanatic like myself will have to adjust to. Yeah ok, that’s it for now but for your
viewing pleasure i have successfully uploaded some photos(yay!):
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=601904&id=614075396&l=53d2c13716
