HOWZIT?

1/19/10

This was the longest flight of my entire life. And I barely slept! Maybe a whole 2 hours (out of 23 hours in and out of airports/on planes!) But I’m finally in Cape Town…AFRICA! People drive on the other side of the road here and don’t understand why anyone would be a vegetarian? So basically I’m weird to all the RAs and locals haha Cappachinos are mega cheap, 5 rands (which is less than 1$!) and the people are really nice. Kind of crazy but that’s probably a good thing…The alcohol here has less proof (I learned the hard way by ordering a “strong” drink that ended up tasting like regular punch, and when I asked the bartender he laughed and showed me the bottle and explained us Americans are crazy and like are alcohol proof so high that it doesn’t even taste like liquor anymore,oops! Classes need to start-I need structure, and goals and something to motivate me! It doesn’t quite feel like Africa, although we passed the townships on the way to the campus and they were a stark reminded of the inequality here, still I don’t feel like I’m in another hemisphere. I’m really tired, the jet-lag is finally hitting me, I’ll write more tomorrow!