Breakfast was nice; had a drink called Milo which is sort of like hot chocolate, BUT quite different. Nice though. It took forever for us to get the bill, though; it got extremely busy, then they lost the folder with our order in it. (Should have taken that as a sign and just left, but it's important to maintain integrity.) We eventually got it, and I nearly overpaid when I misred my portion. I still haven't got a grip on how cheap food is here. They make such a fuss over a drink being something like 11 rand. That's barely a dollar. In America you're lucky if your drink is under $2, and usually hangs around the $3 mark, especially if your meal is cheap.
Anyway, I'll talk about that another time maybe.
I didn't actually learn much about this Rhodes guy yet either, so I'll do some research and tell you about it. For now... pictures! (Because that's what this blog is about.)
Kathy and Natalie (who I always seem to catch only side-views of) I've met, but this new guy is Kath's husband Andrew. They live in Oxford now, which cracks me up (because I have a very different picture of Oxford in my head than they have.)
So this is Rhodes, I guess. Did you know Zimbabwe used to be called Rhodesia, and that name comes from this guy?
Hella creepy poem there under his face. Weird...
See the twin [inactive] nuclear towers out there? The house I'm staying in is somewhere around there...
So far I've seen lots of city, town, beach, mountain, and garden, but here I got to look at the lovely forest also available. The SMELL of those trees is incredible.
I think America takes the sense of smell for granted. We sell super strong perfumes and body sprays, but the natural smells of our world are suppressed. Here I have reveled in the reek of a pile of rotted potatoes on the sidewalk, the fragrance of a rose bush in full bloom, the tantalizing smell of cooking food right when you could do with a nosh, and now the overwhelming scent of pine. I think the trees are happy to smell so good.
And speaking of both beach...
And mountain...
Group photo!
The happy couple...
Kathy says she's "a real African girl" and that this proves it. Though there were plenty of parking spaces she just drove her car up the side of the mountain, put it in park, and left it...
ROFL
Okay, so the rest of my day has been spent updating this blog (check out backdated posts from a week ago!) and working on scholarship paperwork. And drinking tea. Lots of tea.
I might go see a movie with Tony tonight; a S.Af. comedy called Mr. Bones. I'll let you know if it was any good. ;)
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