Rugby, Tutu & S[LBG] Time

Tonight my girl friends and I baked chocolate cake from scratch and watched Good Will Hunting…you can tell it’s almost exams week haha, so delicious though. And there were so many scenes in the movie with DUNKIN I was really sad, I can’t wait to buy some vanilla iced coffee in the airport when I land in DC!!!

Anyways, my weekend was beyond fantastic, I actually think it might have been one of my favorite weekends in Cape Town.

Friday, my friends and I went to the Cape Town Stormer’s Rugby game. It was so much fun, we bought tickets in the standing section and were basically surrounded by crazy, dedicated fans. At half time we went to the bar and discovered it was even crazier there…the bar was two small dingy rooms, with one tiny black and white TV but it was packed! People were yelling and cheering, and singing songs in Afrikaans, so we just played along it was so much fun. I actually think I kind of understand how rugby works (finally) after watching this game. And the stormer’s won so they secured a spot for the semi-finals in their league. After the game we just went to a bar in mowbry and then called it a night and hung out in leisbeck.

Saturday, I got up super early (after just 4 hours of sleep!) to go downtown with some friends because we heard a rumor that Desmond Tutu was speaking at a church. Well it ends up he was speaking at service to commemorate the 20th anniversary of an ANC Leader’s survival from an assassination attack. (I wish I could remember the man’s name but I’m going to post an article about it…) The service was really beautiful. IT was in St.George’s, which is the largest Anglican Church in the Southern Hemisphere, and it’s downtown in the Company Gardens-it’s this huge stone church basically. I actually enjoyed the service, which is new because I tend to change my mind about church everyday, and then afterwards, both this survivor and Desmond Tutu spoke, and each person’s speech was great. Also, just a side note, Tutu is adorable, he is maybe 5 feet tall and he was smiling and laughing the whole service and kept making small jokes and funny comments. It was absolutely perfect.

After church I got breakfast at Old Biscuit Mill (and some delicious groceries like falafel, a pomegranate…and bath salts?) and came home to power nap before my Leisbeck Gardens Pub Crawl through Mowbry. I won’t post all the details but basically about twenty of us Americans who live in the res hall wore our matching LBG shirts and paraded through a bunch of bars. We got magaritas at a Mexican restaurant, and wine at a greek restaurant…and then hit up the dodgy bars in mowbry. It was so funny; one of my friends had gone to the bars previously and warned the managers that were planning to do this, and everyone was so excited. We walked into the first sketch bar and were bombarded by people there, they took their pictures with us and danced with us and then followed us on the rest of our bar crawl, it was so funny. We ended at this place called “Champs on Vic” and took over their VIP lounge, it was great. My flat mate and I came home after, made a super late dinner and then passed out. It was great I got 12 hours of sleep (so much better than the night before!)

Sunday was pretty uneventful, I did home work all day, but then got really delicious Ethiopian food for dinner. There is this women who lives literally across the street from our residence hall and you can just call her up and she’ll cook you dinner (for really cheap!) and you go eat in her house. It was so gooood.

Today, I had volunteering at CHOSA and it was really good. Usually, I just hangout and have discussions, chill time with the high school students, but today one of the students asked me to help him with his economics homework. It was so much better, we did some English lessons on the side, and I helped him read/start a worksheet on South Africa’s national budget…it was cool though. I’ve realized from both of my volunteering projects that I really enjoy teaching and I think that if I do volunteer with the Peace Corp or some other organization overseas I definitely want to do teaching…? Kinda cool.

So this week is pretty much the same-old. I’ve got a party/fundraiser for one of my volunteering projects, my friends and I are celebrating someone’s 21st at club in town…and then this weekend I think it’ll be the usually Old Biscuit Mill, and hopefully a beach day and market on Sunday, but who knows we tend to change our plans a lot!

Until next week, Cheers!

-Okay fail on finding an article but I’ll keep searching…