Today was move-in day! We had to say goodbye to our hotel rooms and hello to our dorms, but it ended up being a definite upgrade! (The hotel we were staying in used to be a prison… yeah.) At first I was very disappointed with my dorm because it has no view, and the 3 other rooms do!! (They are more like apartments – four separate bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a kitchen.) So the other 3 roommates get this amazing view of Cape Town, and I get to view the doors to the other dorms. (The building is like an O-shape, and I’m on the inside of the O, if that makes any sense.) Plus I have the smallest room. Somehow I think they knew I wasn’t paying for this trip and gave me the crappiest room! But it’s ok because it’s a space of my own and it’s bigger than the singles at Georgetown so how can I complain? Oh yeah, and I’m in South Africa, which is definitely nothing to complain about.
One of my roommates is in CIEE with me and she’s from South Carolina, and another one is a guy named Neo from Lisotho, a small country surrounded by South Africa, for those of you non-geography people. He’s really nice and cool and he’s good friends with Tawanda so it’s nice having all those guys over. After I settled in we took a group trip to the grocery store, and it was great to be walking around a regular South African neighborhood and seeing non-American faces! I tried to disguise my accent in the store but it definitely didn’t work… oh well! I’ll work on it I guess. But you wanna know something interesting? They don’t take showers here! Only baths. (Yes we are clean over here! I just realized how that last sentence could have been misinterpreted lol!) And I was grossed out at first but then I actually took a bath on the first day and I was like WOW, I could get used to this! It was very relaxing!!!
After that, we had a brie, which is a barbeque. It was so fun, because me and Lowena were dancing for a lot of it trying to get the crowd hype, and plus the food was SO good! Moses is throwing a braai this Sunday, so that should be fun too. Apparently they love BBQ’s here even more than we do in America, believe it or not!
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