Playing Catch Up!

Hello all!

A few days after District 6 we went to Robben Island. This is where Nelson Mandela spent 20+ years of his life living in a cell. Basically prisoners went here for their full sentence. A large portion of this prisoners were political activists or people who were seen as a threat to the government (aka: Mandela). The island itself is beautiful, with lots of guinea fowl roaming everywhere and antelope. We viewed the prison cells which were incredibly small. Our tour guide was actually a former prisoner here so that was interesting to hear his story. The boat ride back to Cape Town was a bit bumpy and unfortunately we didn’t seen any whales. But we saw 5 seals! 

After that we roamed around the shopping center and had coffee and cake at Vovo Telo which was INCREDIBLE. I had carrot cake and a mocha or ‘cocochino’ as they call it here.

Then we all went out to dinner with our RA Mpumi to the Neighborhood (it was a restaurant/ bar/ club). The evening started out well, but when Lizz and I realized our purses had been stolen it went downhill fast. I lost everything- my wallet, money, credit cards, ID, purse, camera, and even my super cool CamelBak with a filter. They were very sly about how they stole all of our things- the restaurant had security camera so we saw who did it and how they did it. Basically they moved the reclining chair and he would lean back and take one thing at a time from our bags. We filed a police report though and a detective is on the case. That was a rough time, but everything is back to normal now.

Soo these things are from 2 weeks ago and clearly I’m behind on the blogging process. But that’s okay.

To give you a quick synopsis of this week:

I’ve been volunteering at the Mount Zion Church Camp this entire week for 5 hours a day. Which has been FABULOUS! I’ve been so blessed to have the opportunity to meet some of these kids. A lot of them come from disadvantaged backgrounds so that’s been interesting to hear about their stories. And then we’ve been having classes for 2 hours a day- and well that’s been alright for being class. On Wednesday we went to a rural community and we had Appletiser. It’s literally the best drink known to mankind. It’s like apple cider but 100x better. And now we are deciding what to do on our Friday night which will probably consist of: going out to dinner, getting a couple of drinks, and maybe going to a club!

Hope all of you have a great Friday!