Travel update: We arrived safely on Thursday late, after smooth (but long) flights. Maybe I cried a lot on the plane and then had a headache. We were seated next to another UCT international student on the 17 hour trans-Atlantic, so we got to know him a little. (Most of the other students are undergrads, so it makes for interesting socializing.) One bag was on a later flight than us and the rest of the bags, so we didn't get settled into our UCT vacation accommodation for the night until after midnight. But with all of our bags.
It's chilly and windy here, but there's also beautiful scenery, and the cool is rather refreshing - more like autumn than winter. We went on a short hike our first day and look forward to much more! In this first picture, the building in the middle is where President Obama spoke earlier this week with Devil's Peak in the background.
CRAZY DAY: This morning (Saturday), we left our UCT "vacation accommodation" to go to the house we'd arranged to stay in. It's a great location and looked nice and like it would fit our needs well. When we got there, we were approached by "green shirt" man, who said that the house was his, and he'd been tricked by our potential landlord...They had a shouting match in the street, with some shoving involved; the police showed up, and we took our bags and left (after Mark stood as an onlooker for kinda a long time because he thought it was so interesting and had legal implications.
We met a very nice friend of a friend and her family at a soccer game, and our would-be landlord eventually got in touch and helped us find a place for tonight, so we're looking for new housing arrangements. (Thankfully we hadn't paid him anything!) It has been a "laugh or cry" day, and I'm thankful that God has given both of us the grace to laugh. AND a sweet place for the night with great internet, so we've gotten to skype with family and post this blog!
It's chilly and windy here, but there's also beautiful scenery, and the cool is rather refreshing - more like autumn than winter. We went on a short hike our first day and look forward to much more! In this first picture, the building in the middle is where President Obama spoke earlier this week with Devil's Peak in the background.
CRAZY DAY: This morning (Saturday), we left our UCT "vacation accommodation" to go to the house we'd arranged to stay in. It's a great location and looked nice and like it would fit our needs well. When we got there, we were approached by "green shirt" man, who said that the house was his, and he'd been tricked by our potential landlord...They had a shouting match in the street, with some shoving involved; the police showed up, and we took our bags and left (after Mark stood as an onlooker for kinda a long time because he thought it was so interesting and had legal implications.
We met a very nice friend of a friend and her family at a soccer game, and our would-be landlord eventually got in touch and helped us find a place for tonight, so we're looking for new housing arrangements. (Thankfully we hadn't paid him anything!) It has been a "laugh or cry" day, and I'm thankful that God has given both of us the grace to laugh. AND a sweet place for the night with great internet, so we've gotten to skype with family and post this blog!
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