seventeen

Disclaimer: for some reason, tumblr is not letting me post photos, so this will be another imageless post.

Alright, so I am back at Banani eagerly awaiting the arrival of my children tomorrow. I was really not looking forward to coming back here, but two things made me SO HAPPY today.

Actually, first I should say that I was looking forward to seeing Heather, Nura, Sharghi, Krista and Shadon.

Ok, so the first thing that made me smile super big. I was walking back from the Institute, and I had greeted some girls who I didn’t know. I was about 100 m away from them when I hear, “Miss Correen.” I turned around, and yelled, “Who are you?” No response. I decided that I should go see what they wanted. They asked me where I was going and stuff, and then guess what they said? “Eunice was greeting you.” Eunice was greeting me!!! I was so happy. They told me that she was in Liteta, but she’ll be coming back. Can I just say that I love Eunice so much, and I was so happy to hear that she had told them to greet me.

Number two thing that made me so happy. So, after I got the message about Eunice I was going to go get some lunch. I was by the senior dorms, when I saw Olinga bouncing on the trampoline. Now, Olinga is my favourite little boy in the whole wide world. I ran up to him, and told him how much I missed him. Then I asked him about his vacation. He told me that he spent it playing and missing me. OLINGA!! You are the best son ever! I was so happy, that I told him I loved him. I’m pretty sure I’ve never told him that before. Then I made him hug me, he pretended like he didn’t want to, but I knew he did.

So, I guess I should talk about my trip to Cape Town, no? The first thing we did when we arrived in Joburg was eat. I had a wrap with jalapenos. The first thing we did when we arrived in Cape Town was eat. We got sushi. Food played a major role in our trip.

Our second night in Cape Town was New Years Eve. We went to Camps Bay in the day. This place is amazing. The beach is so beautiful, but the water is so cold. My feet almost fell off. We ate icecream and baguette.

In the evening we went to the Waterfront with Sena and Yvette and had pizza and watched fireworks. There were some illegal fireworks too, it was great. I love New Years.

On New Years Day, we drove up Signal Hill and went to the University of Cape Town. Basically, it is the most beautiful school I have ever seen. I want to go there so bad. SO BAD!!!

We went to Robben Island. It was pretty neat. They give you a tour of the prison conducted by an ex-political prisoner. It was really interesting.

The next day, we drove to Simon’s Town to see the penguins. They were so cute. They were swimming around and hopping about. Some of them were nesting.

We tried to go up Table Mountain to watch the sunset one day, but so many people were trying to go up too. We waited an absurd amount of time for tickets, and then the wind started picking up. They were thinking that they might be closing the cable cars at any moment, so we decided to get a refund and go watch the sunset from Signal Hill. A lot of other people also had this idea, so there was absurd traffic up to Signal Hill as well. We managed to catch the last of the sunset though.

The next day, we decided to try our luck again. First, though, we went to the beach. Sena, Naveed and I all went swimming. I think I was the only one to willingly submerge myself. It was so cold, and the waves were huge. It was fun though.

We got to Table Mountain at an appropriate time and were able to go up and see the sunset.

On our last day in Cape Town, we went to Table View to watch the sunset. We just love sunsets.

LYLT!!