Before Cape Town...

Cape Town, South Africa for spring break? Yes please!

Wanted to get one more post out before I leave for spring break. I will be in Cape Town all of next week so I will be away for a bit. I am so excited, though. I'm sure you know that already considering I have mentioned it close to a thousand times on here ha. We are all packing our bags before the early morning start on our journey. We will be heading out around 7:30 and making a stop about two hours in to bungee jump off of the worlds highest bungee bridge! I am so stoked, it is going to be amazing! I am a huge thrill/adrenaline-rush seeker so this is right up my alley. I am not sure how many people from my trip are doing it but I would say around 10 out of the 30 will take the plunge. Hey, come on, you gotta!

After, we will make our way to a township that is just outside Cape Town and stay with a family for a night. We are all split into two person groups for this. I think this will be a great eye-opening experience as well.
From there we will head into Cape Town for the week where we will be climbing Table Mountain, visiting Robben Island, meeting with a member of parliament, going to Mama Africa's (restaurant with multiple kinds of meat - crocodile,  ostrich, springbok, and more), museums, and other fun activities. It will be a blast!

This past week went well. For music on Monday we went to Dudley Tito's house. Dudley Tito is a famous jazz musician who lives in New Brighton. My professor says he is a legend. It was cool to meet someone like that and hear him play. Service both Monday and Tuesday was great, like usual. However, Shannon and I were teaching a lesson and finally getting through to our kids right when one of the teachers came in and told them to work on something else. This was a little difficult because now the kids were distracted and we pretty much lost everything we had gained that morning. Something that could be improved about their system is sticking with a subject until it's complete or at least spend a significant amount of time on it (all morning).

For seminar on Thursday we went to the Ubuntu Education Center. This may have been the best kind of center I've seen down here. It addresses the entire family rather than just one person. It provides education (tutoring), medical check-ups, food (through their garden), and clothing. It really aims to improve everyone's life in the family. They accept anyone that they think needs help but target people infected or affected by HIV. The center was state-of-the-art so the funding for it must be doing well. Pictures of famous celebrities (Kevin Bacon, Kevin Spacey), Archbishop Tutu, and President Clinton lined the wall. The center was started by an American and his friend he met while studying down here in 1998.

Great week here in South Africa and another great week ahead! I will update you all when I get back next week - Peace!