We had our first set of classes on Thursday, starting at
UCT. I cannot get over how beautiful the campus is; I feel like I’m walking
through a palace when I am there! We had two classes with Vincent and they were
so engaging. It was great to have all of the history of South Africa wrapped up
together, because I have gotten bits and pieces of it but never a really set
time line of how and when everything happened, so that was great!!
On Friday a
few of us from Campground went to Muizenberg beach, and it was amazing. The
beach was beautiful and had the mountains in the background, which was just so
peaceful. We saw some others from our group there for surfing lessons, which I
definitely need to do at some point! Then for dinner we went to Sticks McGee’s,
which had a live band playing that was just amazing. They had so much passion
and loved the music they were playing so much, Elizabeth and I ended up staying
until they were done playing!
Saturday was quite the day. Becca, Abby, Trista and I all
decided to hike Table Mountain. It was definitely a crazy experience! The hike
took a lot longer than I expected, and going up was brutal. The ascent was all
up hill and pretty steep, I honestly thought at some points that I wasn’t going
to make it. There were some areas that had ladders you had to take which was
pretty awesome and very scary. The top of the mountain was the best part. Once
we were pretty close to the top we looked out and the views were just gorgeous.
It honestly looked to me like a scene from The Lord of the Rings!! Very cool, I
was definitely in a state of awe just looking at how beautiful this country is
from way up high. But the mountain is never ending. We would get to one point
and think we were at the top, only to look up and see that there was more! And
that probably happened about 4 times, until at last we had reached the absolute
top. At one point we got lost and met a guy from Germany and a girl from
Switzerland, who we climbed to the top with and had a great conversation about
why they were here and what their aspirations are for the future as well. The
problem we ran into was coming back down. We got lost and ended up wandering
around the top of the mountain for a couple of hours, and then the hike down
was another 3. All in all we hiked 12 miles in 8 hours, it was brutal but
totally worth it!
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| In awe of the view |
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| Finding the way back down |
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