Hello my friends,
After a week with al lot of experiences, I had today a very comfortable relaxing day. The weather outside is not really good and tomorrow it will rain. But from Wednesday it's gonna be better.
At the moment we are two volunteers in my project. But Felix lives in a host-family. Recently I share my room with a girl from England. She works also as a volunteer, in the hospital. The other guy from France (Thibault) left Cape Town last weekend.
Tomorrow I am going to watch a Bafana Bafana-Game in the Cape Town Stadium. They play a friendly against Angola.
This week I'll work only on Wednesday and (maybe) Thursday. Owing to a holiday (Youth Day) the school is closed, and was closed today as well. At the moment the kids are writing a lot of exams, so I don't know, if I will have project on Thursday.
Like I said, I was very busy last week. Luckily the weather was good, so the project took place every day. In the afternoons I did activities with the other volunteers or my school friends.
On Tuesday I hiked up to Lions Head. For me was it the fourth visit. The top of Lions Head is my absolutely favorite place in Cape Town - I love this place.
One Day later we took a uber-taxi in the afternoon to Signal Hill, where you have a beautiful view to Table Mountain and Lions Head and on the other side to green point and waterfront. And also to the Cape Town Stadium. It had been built, for the World Cup 2010. The place for a stadium is not so bad, isnt' it? (Look the picture below). After signal hill, we visited the springbok rugby museum at the waterfront. It is a nice interactive museum. Afterwards we had dinner at the waterfront.
Beautiful view: Table Mountain (l.) and Lions Head (r.)
On Thursday we wanted to climb the Table Mountain because Thibault never visited the top during his stay in Cape Town. Unfortunately the weather was not really good. There was fog and a lot of clouds. So we stayed at the backpacker, where we had a funny time with the other people from here. On the same day my present roommate arrived.
On Friday I had my orientation with two other volunteers. The responsible person of the project, Danielle, picked us up at the backpacker and we drove to the city centre, where we did a walking tour. The most of the places I've seen before (District 6 museum, Waterfront...). But luckily we walked to places I didn't know yet. For example the Boo Kap and the company's garden (the "central park") of Cape Town. I'd never seen so many quirrels before in my life. They were everywhere.
In the evening I was invited to a house warming party of one of my school friends. She, a girl from South Korea, is here until December, so she rent a flat. She cooked a lot of Korean food for us and Sushi as well. It was delicious and the evening very nice.
On Saturday we visited three Townships together with our driver. Langha, Gugulethu and Nyanga. It was so impressive - to see how the people live there, or must live there. And when you recognize the reasons why... It's a sad chapter of this country and the history so omnipresent. But I don't want to write too much political stuff here...
In Langha we had a drum lesson (see picture below). It was very nice.
In Gugulethu we ate dinner at Mzoli's. It is a restaurant in the middle of the Township. The food was awesome, only meat, no side dish. The atmosphere (with DJ, people were dancing....) was fantastic.
In the evening it took place a activity of my project, where I met other volunteers of other projects. We went to a silent disco. It was very strange, but I enjoyed the evening. Everybody had its own headphones and was listening to the music in that way. If you put down your headphones, you see the people dance, but you don't hear music. So it looks very very strange:) Unfortunately the evening ended already at 11 p.m. because our driver took us home and there were different destinations and long distances.
Yesterday I had a sportive day. Together with school friends I hiked up to the Devils Peak. We started at 12 O'Clock and reached the top 2.5 hours later. Unfortunately the weather on the top was horrible. So we couldn't enjoy the view of Cape Town. The only thing we saw, was fog. But anyway, we had a good time together and after we came down, we ate together in the best Burger Restaurant in Cape Town, in Jerry's in Observatory, near my backpacker.
In the evening I went to a bar with one of my friends in Camps Bay, because like I said, I hadn't work today, so I could sleep long.
That were my activities last week.
I am now further 16 days in Cape Town and then I am going to flight to Namibia. I am looking forward to my last days in mothers city (I have a lot of ideas/plans what I want to do until I'll leave Cape Town) and I am really looking forward to Namibia and my girlfriend.
You will hear from me next week.
Peace
Dario
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