it's getting serious now, less than two weeks left til i'm home. back to faucets where hot and cold come out of the same one, back to the non-metric system, back to fahrenheit, back to summer, back to things being open on sundays, back to safe neighborhoods, back to nice pets, back to gyms, back to skim milk. so exciting! the thing is, i really like it here, but once you decide you miss something, you start to notice all the inconveniences and miss things even more. homesickness takes over and you start to sound like a whiny brat. oh well. so this week i took a few tests, turned in my last paper, finished all my classes. when i wasn't studying i just hanging out, enjoying the occasional sunny days. when we get sun we all rejoice, then the rain comes back. one thing that's terrible is laundry. Since none of us have dryers and we dry our clothes on the line, we can never do laundry cuz it's always raining. our clothes are starting to smell funky. and all my socks are gray. i might leave some stuff here, it's all been destroyed. on wednesday i was going to go out to kareoke on long street cuz i knew a lot of people would be going, but i fell asleep at 9:30. impressive. didn't sleep well either. then thursday night we went out to seafood (the ocean basket) for a friend's birthday and then went out on long street. i heard i fell asleep in not one, but two bars. once again, impressive. needless to say, i didn't stay out late.
on friday after getting out of bed for good around two i went next door to hang out with the girls. we all decided to go out to the movies for a nice relaxing evening. so we went to the mall, hit up the food court for dinner and then saw Shopgirl starring steve martin and claire danes. apparently this movie did terribly in the u.s. but we LOVED it. it was so funny and really well acted and written (except for the cheesiest voiceovers known to man). it was great. then saturday the weather was icky so we decided to make cookies. we had to buy chocolate bars and then i smashed them into chunks with a jar of peanut butter. it sort of worked. also the oven is really crappy so all the cookies were burnt. i made one on a frying pan - it was delicious but it looked sick. Then we watched Hotel Rwanda. Such a good movie. After that we went out for an all you can eat sushi/japanese food buffet at this nice restaurant called, what else, Sushi Zone. After that we went out to a pool bar in the area, but didn't have much fun. A lot of obnoxious balding men were fighting over the opportunity to challenge us. then when we started beating them they complained that we weren't being nice. Then when we were minding our own business at a balcony table this man from the next table goes "why are there so many americans in cape town?" and lindsey, being the confrontational girl that she is, goes "what?" and the man said "is it some sort of conspiracy? were all you guys sent from washington?" and we were just like "umm, yeah we're all here spying on you." and we relocated in the bar for about 10 minutes before leaving and going home. the night was a bust. it sucks when people can be so obnoxious as to ruin your night.
today we decided to head into town and be tourists. We went to the castle of good hope. which is neither a castle nor on the cape of good hope. it's a fort in the middle of downtown. it wasn't that exciting. after walking around the exhibits (which were all an anthropological mess) and making fun of the cannons and a silly interactive model train we left. There was nothing else open in downtown on sundays. we tried to go into the library/ court house and thought it was open cuz a door was open. as we tried to go in this random security guard came up behind us and goes "it's closed." and we were like "umm, but the door's open?" apparently the door was just open for kicks. so we came back to mowbray.
this week, since we have no school, we'll probably try to do a few more touristy things. my finals are on the 2, 6, and 7th. after that, it's home free.
on friday after getting out of bed for good around two i went next door to hang out with the girls. we all decided to go out to the movies for a nice relaxing evening. so we went to the mall, hit up the food court for dinner and then saw Shopgirl starring steve martin and claire danes. apparently this movie did terribly in the u.s. but we LOVED it. it was so funny and really well acted and written (except for the cheesiest voiceovers known to man). it was great. then saturday the weather was icky so we decided to make cookies. we had to buy chocolate bars and then i smashed them into chunks with a jar of peanut butter. it sort of worked. also the oven is really crappy so all the cookies were burnt. i made one on a frying pan - it was delicious but it looked sick. Then we watched Hotel Rwanda. Such a good movie. After that we went out for an all you can eat sushi/japanese food buffet at this nice restaurant called, what else, Sushi Zone. After that we went out to a pool bar in the area, but didn't have much fun. A lot of obnoxious balding men were fighting over the opportunity to challenge us. then when we started beating them they complained that we weren't being nice. Then when we were minding our own business at a balcony table this man from the next table goes "why are there so many americans in cape town?" and lindsey, being the confrontational girl that she is, goes "what?" and the man said "is it some sort of conspiracy? were all you guys sent from washington?" and we were just like "umm, yeah we're all here spying on you." and we relocated in the bar for about 10 minutes before leaving and going home. the night was a bust. it sucks when people can be so obnoxious as to ruin your night.
today we decided to head into town and be tourists. We went to the castle of good hope. which is neither a castle nor on the cape of good hope. it's a fort in the middle of downtown. it wasn't that exciting. after walking around the exhibits (which were all an anthropological mess) and making fun of the cannons and a silly interactive model train we left. There was nothing else open in downtown on sundays. we tried to go into the library/ court house and thought it was open cuz a door was open. as we tried to go in this random security guard came up behind us and goes "it's closed." and we were like "umm, but the door's open?" apparently the door was just open for kicks. so we came back to mowbray.
this week, since we have no school, we'll probably try to do a few more touristy things. my finals are on the 2, 6, and 7th. after that, it's home free.
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