Saturday the 18th (happy birthday Lauren!) I climbed up Table Mountain! It was cloudy, but still beautiful. It is turning into winter now, so our days in Cape Town will not be as sunny and warm as our days in Pietermaritzberg. Sunday we went to a famous comedian’s show, Evita, but I didn’t find him…her…it… all that funny. It’s a man who dresses up like a woman and makes political jokes. Some of his/her jokes were funny, but a lot of them I could not understand because he/she used a lot of Afrikaans phrases for the “punch line”! It was nice to realize that I have learned a ton about the history of this place because I was able to understand what Evita was talking about. I guess since I have not experienced the politics to the extent of the locals, and the actual punch line was in another language, the jokes were not as funny to me. All the locals at the show laughed their heads off. Oh well. I also may have been too disturbed by the man dressed as a woman. Yikes. The election was on April 22nd, and as thought, Zuma won. Please keep the future of South Africa in your prayers. Thankfully, the ANC did not get 2/3 of the votes. If that had happened, Zuma could have had the power to change the constitution.
We took a tour of Robben Island on Tuesday, which was where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for many years. We saw penguins!!! MOM I SAW A PENGUIN! Haha!
Evita and his/her political cacti
Table Mountain hike!
The view of Cape Town from Table Mountain
A view of Table Mountain from Robben Island
Nelson Mandela's cell
Robben Island was once used as a confinement place for Lepers :(. They actually had a female church and a male church, hoping to discourage reproduction. This Island was used for prisoners and those with Leprosy for many years, but the actual prison that Mandela stayed in was built in the 1960's.
One of the nights that weekend was spent at a place called Grant West. It is a bit like Downtown Disney or even The Grove, only it is all indoors. Paige, Micah, Grant, Laura Jane, and I went to a restaurant that had live jazz. Mom- I knew ALL the songs!
More to come!! xoxox
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