hey there,
so sorry for the last blog where i...posted the whole entry as a link. yikes. So this weekend was soop doop fun. Saturday I got my hair cut and it's lookin chic and fab and then I went to the aquarium with my friend who got her hair dreaded at the time I was getting my hair cut (well, hers actually too 6 hours). The aquarium was alright, though it doesn't beat the Newport aquarium for a second. I saw some Steve Irwin worthy rays, some small sharks, crazy eels. I headed home and found that Achmat had bought a hardrive that you can hook up to a tv and has lots of boot legged movies on it. Yay! We watched Australia (which had about 15 climaxes and was a little too long) and Steph came home from shabbot. Moena made veggie ground beef that she had found and it was delishhhh. Me and Steph are really opening up that woman's culinary eyes.
Side note-the internet place I come to here is called the Geek Internet Cafe and there is a backroom that one walks to to get to the bathroom that is only for serious "geeks" aka gamers who are all playing World of Warcraft or something. School got out an hour or so ago so all these nerd boys are here makin a ruckus in the backroom while they play their game versus each other. Funny stuff.
Anyway, on Sunday 31 of the 35 of us got on a private bus tour thing that took us first to Simon's town which has a beach called Foxy Beach that has penguins on it. That's right, penguins. The penguins are blocked off but there's boardwalks that lead to them and you're seriously right next to them and they are so friggin cute. I would post pictures, but it takes a looong time to post here so..maybe next time. Allegedly, the reason for the south african penguin is that sailors on their journeys would take penguins as pets and then realizing they couldn't take them into africa when they got here just dropped them in the water.
After Simon's Town, we got to Cape Point in the far south of south africa and were givin bikes to ride. We all rode (mostly downhill, but some of the ride was hard) to a visitor's center place and had lunch. Then we rode our bikes the rest of the way to the Cape of Good Hope. It was so beautiful and it's really steep downhill so the cool Atlantic breeze is blowin in your face and there's nothin but ocean as far as the eye can see and fisherman/scuba divers are offering you cold beer from their cooler as you pass by....we got to the cape (the southern most part of the African continent) and then started a hike that takes you to various high points to look out over the sea. We saw a few dassies (remember from table mountain?) and we walked a boardwalk high over the sea until we got to a place at the top that has a restaurant and gift shops and stuff. this is the point at which one must be wary of BABBOONS because they are dangerous, everywhere, and will steal your stuff and kill you. and lo and behold while some of us enjoyed our Hunters Dry a babboon came near this family's table to steal their food and they evacuated asap. Those babboons are crazy. We took the bus back to c-town and Moena had found SEITAN (a vegan's dream, what is used to make all fake meats) and made a curry and it was delish. Then me and Steph (and half our class it turns out) watched this movie called 4 Brothers featuring Markie Mark. We all watch the same movies cuz South Africa/our homestays only have about 3 channels.
Today it rained! and was cold! crazy stuff. but I guess summer is ending here so we might have a few more days like that headed our way. I tried lunch at this vegetarian place called Zuccini. I ate yummy veggies, a veg curry pot pie thing, and a really good chocolate oat brownie. I wanted the almond chickpea fudge but those silly people put milk in it.
That's all for now! Peace in the middle east.
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