3 months

I've been in South Africa for 3 months now, thus it's time for me to do my monthly review. Saturday was actually my 3-month mark, but the day was so crazy I couldn't write in here. A group of us went to Cape Point, which is the absolute tip, where the Atlantic meets the Indian. Our small group quickly turned into a group of about 13, so we piled into 3 cars and off we went. At stoplights there was alot of jumping out and switching cars. At one point, Holly was in the backseat with 5 guys crammed back there (thankfully, I was in the passenger seat and had locked my door)! We stopped for some really tasty fish n chips for lunch at FishHoek, then headed to the Cape. It was incredibly beautiful, no surprise there. We hiked to this lighthouse to look out over everything, then went surfing. We rolled up our windows as a big herd of baboons decided to lay around on the road and not let us through!

When we got back, it was about dinnertime, so we headed downtown to the most amazing restaurant ever, Eastern Food Bazaar. I've been there before, and it's a conglomeration of Indian and Chinese restaurants, and other eastern kind of foods that I don't know how to spell. It's crazy cheap and delicious. I love love indian food, and I could get a Chicken Tikka Masala w/ naan bread for R30, which is about 4 dollars...that meal would be at least 11 dollars in the States.

While we were finishing up there, we got a call from some other yearteamers who are at a church about a half hour away. They had been invited to go Afrikaans dancing, but didn't know anyone and wanted us to go with. So off we went, way out of Cape town to some town. When we got there, we were paying to get in, when they told Lenny he couldn't come in because he was wearing shorts! We were really confused; apparently a man showing leg is considered disrespectful in Afrikaans culture! They gave him a random pair of pants to try on, but he said they were much too big. We pleaded with them since we had driven so far, but to no avail. At this point it was about 10 at night. We got our money back and decided to go to someplace fun in Cape Town...so back to downtown we went. When we got there everything was packed, so we ended up just going to another friend in Cape Town's flat and hanging out. It was just one of those days where one thing lead to another.

I'm over halfway of time here now, and I am closer to hugging my family and friends hello than I am to have said goodbye to them. While I'm so thankful for this experience, I am getting excited that in just over 2 months I'll be home again. I'm learning a lot and taking so much in, and I'm curious to see how that is going to play out in Jubilee and St. Louis in general. I know as the last 2 months go on, I'll have more and more mixed feelings I'm sure. On to Month 4!