A visit from my Family

Apologies, my old blog site was not working for a while. I gave up and put all my old and new blogs on this website.

I have been extremely busy the first two weeks after we got back from our trip. In two weeks it would be Afrikaans week at Wynberg, so there was a lot to do for me. I made posters for the corridors, made a cd with Afrikaans songs and I did the décor and the music for the Afrikaans play that the Afrikaans teachers played. I had also one of the most horrible jobs to do. I had also my normal jobs and one horrendous job where I had to make a list with all the Hockey players from Wynberg since Hockey was introduced at the school. That list had quite a lot names! I also went together with Elise. You can compare a Matric dance with the American prom, we don’t have such a thing in Holland, but in South Africa it’s probably the biggest thing in the school year. First you have a sort of pre drink. Then you’re going to your table to eat your starter and immediately after that there was a speech by the headmaster and head girl followed by the opening dance. It was funny to compare this all with our own “eindexamen gala” back in Holland, actually you can’t compare it! 

The week after the Afrikaans week was shorter as normal; Friday was a public holiday so after school on Thursday I went back to my host family. That particular Friday my parents and younger brother arrived from Holland. Luckily for me there were also 2 public holidays the following week, so I only worked one day.  It was very nice to have my parents here and I showed them my new world and life. We drove back to the airport to rent a car for that week, but my parents forgot their passport, so we couldn’t hire a car that day.  Besides that, we went to “Canal Walk” a big shopping mall and Rhodes memorial. In the evening we had supper at friends of my host family. They had a house on a cliff with an amazing view over the False Baai.

Sunday we went to Franschoek where we had lunch and had a wine tasting. On Monday I went with my parents to school to watch the rugby. It was rugby festival at Wynberg, schools all over the country are participating, it was quite a good vibe! Unfortunately it started to rain when we had lunch in “Dutch” and it stayed like that for 3 days. It also rains in Africa!

Other things I did with my family were: V&A Waterfront, we went up Table Mountain, we visited Simon’s Town and Cape Point, we did two touristic tours through Cape Town, the aquarium and I probably forget a view other things. On Wednesday, when they fetched me from work, I showed them around the school. They were quite impressed of the School ground, the students politeness (every single boy greeted and stood up for them) and the school itself.   

The other 2 Gappies and Elise came one night for supper, so as mr. Rchardson and his wife. It was nice for my parents to get to know them all.

Queens’s day also took place in that week. Myself, Elise, Fearghas, Andrea (a teacher from school) and a border mistress from the girls hostel went to a Dutch bar in town, to celebrate it. It was quite amazing how many Dutch people there are living in Cape Town, it was a good night!

My parents are back home now, but it won’t be long anymore till I’ll go back. This year went so incredibly fast, it’s now less than one more month to go… I’m going to enjoy every last minute I have in South Africa!


More pictures on my facebook page "South Africa/ Cape Town 2011-2012" (album 1 & 2)