Tuesday, September 10, 2013

the last couple of days




Today feels like an Africa day here.
The weather forecast was completely wrong. Like 180 degrees.
The bureaucratic runaround for my visitor visa extension.
The scooter getting locked for parking in an “illegal” spot that was not marked and looked like every other place we’re supposed to park the scooter. And having to pay a release fee.

Yesterday, I went to a children’s home in a township (aka slum, colonia, compound, ghetto etc.) and it felt more like real Africa. I helped tutor a student in grade 11. He mostly needed help in Afrikaans, but since I know nothing about that, we settled for physics. Laws of ideal gasses. It started coming back to me: degrees Kelvin, mols, atms…It was fun.

Sunday, we celebrated Gina’s 16th birthday. We are getting her a guitar, although we haven’t found the right one yet. (My parents got me a guitar for my 16th b-day, too!) Mark’s words of wisdom to her: “Don’t let something imaginary keep you from doing something that’s real.” I don’t remember exactly what he was talking about, but Gina was impressed.

Saturday was another Africa day because we took public transport to town (downtown Cape Town) to look for a guitar. Walked around a lot, bought food for a maybe con artist beggar guy, couldn’t find a grocery store we were happy with, ate too much oily sauce in my chicken wrap and felt sick, and were SOOO tired when we got home! 

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