Saturday July 10, 2010

Amazing second day in CT!! We were picked up at 8:45am and went to a delicious coffee shop & I had a bran muffin that was served with jam & cheese!! After breakfast we were taken to Boulders beach where the penguin colony lives!! SOOOO awesome & adorable, there were so many of them & even little baby ones! It started raining pretty bad while we were there so we had to leave pretty early, but still cool to see! After that we were taken to the Cape of Good Hope where we walked up Cape point which is part of a mountain!! It was absolutely unbelievable!! Thankfully it stopped raining before we started walking up but it was still pretty chilly!! When we got to the top, we could see where the Indian & Atlantic oceans met, it was AWESOME! The view was breath taking, the pictures don’t do this place justice!! After we left, we were taken to a small restaurant on the harbor where there were lots of ships and sail boats and we had fish & chips and I also had hot chocolate J sounds like a weird combo, but when there’s no heat you need to compromise haha! The food is so good here1!! After we finished eating we were taken to a resort called Monkey Valley, the most beautiful place I have ever stayed! Once again the pictures don’t do it justice, it was so cute, everything was so old timy & classical looking & the inside of the roof looked like the inside of a hut! My room was called “Hoopoe” lol but the other rooms were called different animal names & all of the rooms were different and so neat! We were given a bit of free time & I took a bath in the really cool tub & it was SO HOT and felt awesome bc we had been in the cold rain all day lol but we met back down in the meeting room where we were given the Health & Safety talk as well as academic talks & then we all went to the beach which was a short walk… OMG the mountain was right in the background and the huge boulders made it look fake.. most beautiful scenery ever but the water was freezing! The way back to the resort was pretty funny considering it was pitch black and all we had as light was the tiny beam of light from the 1850s cell phones they gave us! But we made it back fine after a few laughs and headed to dinner which was SO DELICIOUS! I was served peppered fillet minion with butternut squash, mashed potatoes and spinach J mmmm then for desert we had ice cream on top of warm apple tart or pie.. what ever it was, was magnificent!! After dinner we went up to our fab rooms, showered and went to bed with the heater on! First time for a heater in CT!

Sunday July 11, 2010

Sadly we had to leave Monkey Valley Resort, but on the way out we drove up _____ mountain where we saw the most beautiful views of Cape Town… it was absolutely breath taking driving throught he mountain where you could see the ocean & mountains & the city… The weather was beautiful as well not to chilly, but as soon as we got back to the other students house it started to rain, then hail and about 5minutes after it was sunny again! Reminds me of Texas lol but we had take out for lunch which was great, some kind of marinated chicken and “chips” which are French fries but they call them chips here lol. After lunch we went to change and head to the Cape Town Fan Park to watch the World Cup Final between Holland and Spain! J There are no words to explain the amazing atmosphere of thousands of fans cheering and dancing and having an amazing time together! It was un real the amount of people there & how cool it was to be in South Africa for such a hugh home country event! You can totally tell how greatly this world cup has affected this beautiful country! I bough a vuvuzela and blew it all night with my fellow program mates J when the final seconds ran out, people cheered and danced and yelled so loud & the Shakira song played like 500 times & we were having the times of our lives! I have never experienced anything like it, so cool & I am so thankful that I was able to be apart of it!! The streets in Cape Town were shut down and the bars were PACKED with fans from all over!! We stayed out pretty late celebrating, then went back to our apartments and finally got to sleep in because we were given the whole next week off until Saturday morning!