Living the Life

So, here in Cape Town, I am living the life. This week was just another school week, nothing too exciting to mention. Though Wednesday night I finally got to try the Mexican food in CT!! It’s a restaurant called Pancho’s and its right on our street, and it was pretty good, but everything was just s little bit off, haha. Like the chips were a little bit weird, not exactly corn chips, and the guac was a little bit salty (probably for most people’s tastes, but I like salt so that was great), the margaritas were wonderful, but how can you really go wrong there, and I had a mushroom quesadilla that was delectable, and the portions were HUGE, so much food for one person, so I literally had half of my dinner to take home with me, awesome. Then I went out with a few friends in Obs, cuz Wednesday night is Obs night, so our little town is super busy and bars and restaurants are full. We went to the usual, a pool hall called Stones, and had two for one beers and of course saw everyone we know there, haha.

Thursday, I was skipping class to go back to Stellenbosch with Jess to have a follow up appointment on her arm. The head of Two Way Travel (the company that hooked us up with bikes and wine) drove us to Stellenbosch, which is a good 30-40 minutes away, which was so incredibly nice of him, we would have had to take a train if we didn’t do that and well…you get the irony. When we got there, we waited for a bit in the waiting room, and then saw the extremely nice doctor, who proceeded to take Jess’s stitches out of her big wound, and the wound looked great, it was healing really well and the other stitches that were in other places had dissolved, so it was great to see that it was healing nicely. Only 4 more weeks in a sling, and then she is good to go! She even walks around with out a sling, and can fully extend her arm. She is a miracle child. We got back around noon, and were convinced by our roommate Ari that we needed to go to the beach instead of class, so we skipped a second class (only African dance for me) and went to Muizenberg to get pelted by sand and deal with torrential wind storms. I still managed to fall asleep on my stomach and get extremely burnt, haha, and had a delicious meal at a place called Knead there. Then Thursday night is “jug night” at Springboks, a club/bar in Newlands. What jug night means is that you put a R20 deposit on a jug and you can get it filled with whatever you want, pretty dangerous if you ask me, haha. The cool thing about Springboks though is that it was super local, like besides the obligatory couple of kids we run into everywhere, and our house of 17, most of the people were local, which was awesome. There was a great DJ, and it was just really fun dancing, and hanging out with all my favorite roommates and friends.

I did make it to class on Friday, haha at 11 am (I think I’m the only person who has class til 4 on Fridays, and it SUCKS). Had marketing research, astronomy, and business finance, woo hoo. Then I headed home, and made a bee line for my bed because I was so tired I could barely stand it. Slept until almost 7, then got up and roommates had just started coming back from their various fun days at the beach or in Cape Town, whatever. We all kind of decided that we needed to stay in Friday night so that we could go out Saturday and Sunday which is exactly what we did. My friend Stephen and I watched some more episodes of Dexter season 2, so good, I’m hooked.

Saturday we all got up early to head to the Old Biscuit Mill Market, one of our roommates had been talking about it because he went last weekend, and had an amazing time, so we decided to check it out. It’s this open air, shopping, food, antiques, and awesomeness market. It was so chic, the clothes and jewelry were amazing, and the first place we went in to, was an antique store that had independent sellers in it selling the most amazing mixes of olives, cheese, biltong(which is like beef jerky), pestos, and breads. MY HEAVEN. And all these samples, so we walked around the shops first, and then decided to hit the food. There was a whole separate tent for the food, and it was glorious. There were fish sellers, meat sellers, cupcakes, breads, baked goods, mushroom kebabs, I cant even describe the extent of it. There were of course the alcohol venders as well, who were making a killing I’m sure. It was also hotter than hell, so we walked around for a bit, I got a really cute shirt J and then decided to have lunch and head home. So I got a falafel with hummus, onions, fried cauliflower, cucumber, all so good, and a drink called a mule, that was half vodka, strawberry pulp, ginger ale, soda water, and lime and a mint, very good and very strong. After that we decided that we should head home and get ready for the rugby game we were going to! Two way travel hooked us up with rugby tickets to a regional game, the Stormers (who we were supposed to be rooting for) against the New South Wales Warratahs. So we came home, and were all so sweaty and ridiculously hot, took some cold showers, put on our rugby attire, and headed to another student house to have a few beers before the game. The thing was that there chill area was outside, so we were just as hot there…not the best. Then we all met in Rondebosch to make it to the game together, we actually walked to the Newlands stadium from there, and then got to the game!







We were about an hour early, so we decided to get beers (duh). Now this was funny, the basically put you in a holding cell to drink beers, you cannot take them out into the stands at all, so you are in this ugly painted brick cell essentially drinking beers and then you get to go outside and watch the game once you’re done, haha. Of course, I only saw about 5 minutes of the rugby game, but that was fine, I had a lot of fun anyways. After the game, we headed home but were so hungry that we stopped at one of our favorite locations, the Asia supermarket in Obs to get some Pad thai for cheap cheap cheap. So we got some food, and then my roommate Ari and I decided to go out and get a beer, Obs happened to be one happening place last night. So we went to a bar called Scrumpy Jacks, and had a beer, then came home to find our roommates having a dance party in the kitchen. What an awesome thing to come home to! So we definitely joined in, haha, and then all just passed out from being in the sun for so long and having such a fun day. It was incredible. Tonight is our friend Stephen’s 21st birthday!! At midnight that is, so we’re getting classy and were going to Camps Bay to celebrate. More stories to come soon!