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Greetings from abroad!

I have had an amazing weekend that has carried over into the beginning of an amazing week!

You all know what my Friday was like, full of wild flowers and new friends.  I rounded off the evening by trying to make croissants with out yeast.  They turned out more like rolls of REALLY flakey pie crust, but were yummy in the way that anything made of predominately flour and butter is.

Saturday morning I woke up and took the train to Muizenburg with Jules.  It was sunny and train was crowded and lively.  So many people to watch!  I love riding the train.   Muisenburg is a very popular surfing beach.  It is also popular with the sharks, but Jules and I got in the water because we have no fears, sharky or otherwise.  I think it is actually very safe, and it was SO COLD that we only got in to about our belly buttons anyways.   We spent the rest of the afternoon reading on the beach, eating carrots and peanut butter.  Around three we grabbed some falafel and jumped back on the train to Rosebank.


This is where my day really started to become fantastic.

I had talked a little with a girl from my program about giving her yoga studio a try.  I was curious because I am looking for a structured, less than super strenuous, physical activity to do here.  As we were walking to yoga she asked me if I had ever done Bikram before.  I told her I had never done any yoga before, and she burst out laughing and laughed until she cried.  Then she ducked into a connivence store, bought me a 2 liter water and told me to start drinking.  I LOVED IT.  I am not someone who likes being to hot or stretching, but for  some reason it was exactly what I needed.  And it was really fun.

On Sunday I went to beach frisbee with two of the girls from my program.  It was also really really refreshing!  The weather was a bit cold, but the beach was beautiful, and it was a great way to practice throwing in the wind.  After the game we all rinsed off in the ocean and went to breakfast.  Yummmm.  It's really tempting to join a frisbee club here, but I might just stick to pickup and other informal frisbee forums.  It was nice to go back to enjoying the game for the fun of it.

Today my only class was canceled, so I took it as a sign that I should finally check out the anarchist bookstore in Observatory.  I walked down this morning, checking out some second hand stores along the way and found it! It did not disappoint, and was full of fun books.  I got one that is called Conversations with Gayatri Chakavorty Spivak, who is billed as a feminist, marxist, postcolonial scholar.  I'll report back on that one.  Now I am hanging in a coffee shop, about to walk back for yoga at one.  I am excited to see if I like it as much the second time.  updates to come!