Tomorrow I will be leaving for Cape Town, South Africa. I am excited and anxious because this is the first place I have been where I know virtually nothing, and nobody. All I know about are vuvuzelas. There, I readily admitted my ignorance. I will be staying in a town called Somerset West, in the Helderberg region. According to the Wiki, Helderberg used to be called "Hottentots-Holland", but was renamed due to supposed racist connotations. I think I prefer Hottentots-Holland to Helderberg because it sounds more fun, but I don't want to be labeled a racist, so there you go.
This trip will mark my second session out of the required four for my Master's program in International Development. So I guess if you add in all of my requirements I am about 3/8ths (or some other made-up number) done with my program. I will be taking three classes, Development Anthropology, Concepts of International Development (a Sociology course), and Statistics and Research (not overjoyed).
My plane leaves tomorrow at 7pm, I change planes in Amsterdam and land in Cape Town around 11pm local time on Thursday night. A quick jaunt to my dorm room, some sleep, and then up bright and early for class on Friday morning.
I hope to update this blog throughout my stay in ZA. Keep following for interesting baboon-attack stories!
Oh, P.S. this is the link to the college I will be staying at: http://www.hbc.ac.za . Vineyards and oceans and mountains here I come!
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