I love Cape Town!!
I love the food, the vibe, and the clean sea air. I love holidays in the Cape and Black & White is the perfect way to portray this.
Cape Town In B&W
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Meteor Spotted in South Africa
So Saturday night the boyfriend and I were driving back home from Johannesburg when we suddenly saw this strange ball of fire flying through the sky. It then exploded causing, a rather scary but beautiful stream of light that lit up the sky so much that it looked like complete day light.
I consider myself very lucky to have seen this live.
Leprechauns and Pots of Gold
At the moment I am on a lovely and long holiday in Ireland. We arrived after a long trip from Johannesburg International to Dubai, then to Gatwick, and after spending the whole day there we left for Ireland. It has been a lovely trip so far.
We watched the Rugby SA vs The Lions. And we won. Twice! Yippeeeeeeee. I have been reading a lot too…onto a new book (another Marian Keyes – actually the only one of her books I haven’t read). Here are a few Pics from our trip.
English – Our Language
As an English Major I find these rather amusing and somewhat true.
Babbling
Many English Lecturers are bow tie wearing men.
True Love
The City I Live In – Pretoria
I have realised that there are so many things in life that we all take for granted. This got me thinking about what I take for granted.
One of those things is the city I live in. Pretoria. It’s a city that not many people would think of as beautiful, but if you are in the rite place at the rite time of year it happens to be absolutely stunning.
Here are some photo’s of this lovely city in South Africa.
The Union Buildings
The Jacaranda City
Pretoria Sunset
Jacaranda's in full bloom
I have to admit that during the October/November months being in Pretoria is like being in a fantasy world. Pretoria seems to resemble some fairy city out of a story book. It’s an amazing time of year to visit the city as there are almost more purple trees than green ones.
Nobody Cares!
Why have people in South Africa become so unhelpful, actually they really just don’t care! I drive a 1964 Beetle. Why is this relevant?
Well that means I drive a car that can’t lock when you are in it (other than sticking your hand through the window to lock it with the key) because when it was made, safety wasn’t an issue. They can’t even replace the door handles with a newer models, because it is so unique. Great for safety in this country, rite? It also means my car breaks down A LOT. I actually consider myself a rather skillful driver when it comes to improvising as I constantly have to try new things to keep my car running or to get it running again (like pressing the clutch, break and accelerator at the same time with only two feet).
To get back to the point I was trying to make, is that out of all of the times I have broken down (including yesterday, as it was starting to get really dark) not once has anyone (other than taxi drivers) stopped to offer any form of help. I really appreciate the offers from the taxi drivers, but you can’t really blame me for being a bit weary of them can you.
The South African taxi drivers have really been good to me though, offering help where they can, even when they see how weary of them I am.
Why are South Africans so unhelpful? Is it because of the crime? Is it because they are scared that I will hijack them? I don’t understand it! Guys help me out here. Surely when you driving behind a young girl and everything is going well, until suddenly she randomly stops in the middle of the road, and has to roll onto the pavement… you could see something is wrong. Why does nobody help?
I have come to a point now, that I don’t even expect any help. I tell you the day I get help from a white South African is surely the day it will snow in Pretoria. People have become insensitive and uncaring towards other people, and I want to know why.
P.S: Girls I understand why you wouldn’t stop (if you are alone, no matter how much you would want to), but guys instead of staring when you drive by, how about just rolling down your window and asking if everything is ok. Is that too much to ask?
Daily Dose – 30 September 2008
Ok, this daily post thing is a lot harder than I thought it would be. It is going to take a lot of hard work and determination from my side. Today I read so many different articles and finally narrowed them all down to these two.
Underwear thief
A man was caught in Tokyo stealing women’s underwear with a 3m long fishing rod. When the police searched his home they found over 500 pairs of women’s underwear. The man apparently said that his obsession for stealing women’s underwear started when he was 18 years old. 33 years later and he is still going strong.
Zebra takes down lion.
As I am South African I found this story rather remarkable. A lioness thought that she would go catch herself some lunch when suddenly the lunch fought back. The zebra turned the lion over into the shallow water refusing to let her come up for air. When the lioness realised that this zebra was not going to give up the fight she released her grip giving the zebra a chance to run away.
What a lucky day for this zebra.
Today’s Topics:
News 24 Underwear thief
Daily mail Zebra takes down lion
Deepest Darkest Africa
So they say candlelight is supposed to be romantic. They also say that candlelight makes things look better than they might normally look.
Tonight i found myself questioning these ideas. Why did I land up questioning them? Well Eskom, that’s why! Need i say more? Load-shedding might be what we need at the moment but when you have to teach dancing in the dark and without the music it really is not fun.
Not only was that irritating but living in South Africa today everyone knows there are issues with crime so being a few girls left late at night in a pitch black school alone, is not fun.
I have to admit though, the candles were a nice touch and I have never seen the studio look so good as it did tonight,lol. As for my dancers, they looked in pretty good shape for just having had a three week long holiday. So there really are some things that are good about candlelight. I have to admit that it ads an extra bit of fun and excitement to the situation as well.
