Last week was an excellent week for several different
reasons.
Monday: Hiked Lion’s Head for the full moon. This was
freakin awesome! Not only to see the city from up high at night but to be able
to hike down with the light of the moon guiding your way was pretty epic. This
combined with good conversation (see previous blog post) made the hike down
even more entertaining. I highly recommend this hike for anyone, pretty much an
easy hike, it just may more time for some.
Tuesday: I had the most amazing day at work. A huge aspect
of loveLife is their peer educator program that trains “groundBreakers” to work
in schools as educated leaders. On Tuesday I was fortunate enough to go on a
adventure with an RPL (regional program leader- the guy (Khaya) in charge of
several different gBs in a certain area). Khaya is in charge of the Hout Bay
area, my second favourite place in Cape Town to Muizenberg…for the time being.
So we went to a High School In Hout Bay, drove around Chapman’s Peak stopping
along the way to take in the views and get food to get to Steenberg and Wynberg
where we saw another High School and a clinic where loveLife does it’s stuff.
It was beautiful and awesome because none of us had cameras or phones with us
so we were forced to just take it in, and we tots looked like locals, which in
my opinion is always a plus. Fabulous day, and it was all work related which
made it twice as exciting – it is possible to have fun while you work!
Wednesday: Today I got assigned my project for the rest of
the semester for my internship. Work again but SO exciting! I will be doing a
feasibility analysis of our Langa Y-Centre to determine whether or not it is
still viable/ what improvements should be made or whether it should be shut
down. Big things! And I look forward to diving head first into that.
Thursday: Classes
Friday: I spent the day shadowing two gBs at Hout Bay High
and got a first hand insight to the way the school works or don’t work… in
certain areas here. I watched a lady with white skin preach to a bunch of high
school students like they were two year olds, witnessed a fight, bought food
from a restaurant that was made out of a container, saw kids drinking on school
property, some sick break dancing, and someone come out all in the matter of 6
hours. Woah. Intense.
Saturday: Slept in! Then went to the Gay Pride Parade in
town where I saw the most beautiful men I have ever seen and then covered
myself in colourful powder at the Holi Day festival. I’ve never had so much fun getting so
incredible dirty! It was also beautiful to see how everyone started to look
alike as we all got covered in more and more colour. I felt a bit like an
avatar, I don’t know why it’s just the way I felt. Another, awesome day!
Sunday: I took today to go on an adventure! I ended up going
alone because a lot of people had work to do. Perks of productivity! So I
missed my train but it was fine because it gave me some time to read in the
shade and then when I got to the beach I decided to go a different route than
we usually go. We always go out of the train and go left so today I went right
and found myself on a long and beautiful walk.
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