Hello everyone! I know that I haven’t written for some time, but I felt very guilty writing my blog when I had a significant amount of school work to tend to. But here is the update. After I came back from Durban, I’ve been in Jo’burg and hadn’t gone anywhere, but I can fill you in on some things that happened before and after that I haven’t mentioned yet.
Well, first of all the Rugby World cup was going on when I first got here. Rugby is huge here, but I didn’t actually go see a game until the very final game, where South Africa was playing against England. Sahle and I were both invited to watch the game at this German club called Edelweiss by a classmate of mine named Cameron. He’s a really nice guy and came and picked us up, took us to his house were we met his wife and his best friend. We all filed into a taxi and went to the bar which was in this area called Bridgewater. There used to be a man-made lake there, but they filled it in because it started to smell. Really Jo’burg is land-locked so there are no substantial bodies of water anywhere. The place was totally insane and got even more insane when South Africa actually won. It was kind of like the superbowl, but the thing is that it only takes place every 4 years. As you see by the pictures, I tried to fit in a bit by putting together a green and yellow outfit.
1) The crowd patiently waits, 2)Cameron, his best friend and his wife, 3) Me, Sahle, and Shelley, 4) One of the waiter and Neil, celebrating the win by dancing on the table- that was a true celebration!, 5) Me and Cameron standing on the table after the win.
Second, Mary J. Blidge came to town and the concert was great! If you don’t know you now know that I absolutely love Mary and have every single one of her albums – this was my first time seeing her in concert and she sounded even better live than on the albums. I was a bit sick, but you would have never known! (below are pics of Mary, Me, Sahle, and Sahle’s friends Mandisa and Lulama who actually got us the tix)
Third, it was one of the exchange student’s (Hide from Japan) birthdays and we went to an amusement park called Gold Reef City. I was at the tail-end of a food fast and look so hungry!
Third, on November 14th, the full-time class had an end of the year party at a restaurant in a nice area of town called Park Hurst. Everyone was glad to be done with their core courses and most of the students came with their significant others. It was a nice event….
Photos: 1) One of the three dinner tables, 2) Me, Debra (Ed’s girlfriend), Sahle and Lucretia, 3) Katy in the red skirt put the whole event together, 4) Here is Ed and his girlfriend Debra, who Sahle and I decided that he should seriously consider marrying!, 5) Me and Toby, 6) Simon and Luma doin’ their so-called GQ poses, 7) Mitch and myself, 8) Sahle and Mitchell doin’ throwin up signs with a NY attitude, 9) Me, Cameron, and his wife. I know that we look like giants, but the person who took the photo was sitting down and Camerons is something like 6’4”, 10) Me, Sahle, and Sana (my roommate), 11) Sana, with 2 of the other exchange students, Anna and Simon
Here is Toby – he’s total Christian and doesn’t drink, so he wouldn’t even touch the wine bottle to pass it to me. Sahle was like “but Toby Jesus drank wine…” Oh well. It’s only a soft drink called Appletizer in his glass.
