The Weekend

my feeble attempt at gumboot dancing

Another great weekend! It rained almost the entire time, but we all still had a blast. On Saturday morning, we spent time at the LEAP school cooking together and performing what we had learned in the classes the former LEAP students put on for us on Friday. I elected to do the African drumming. Others did some singing and dancing. Drumming seemed like the most reasonable choice for me. Cooking together was really cool as well. It’s a little crazy to me having that many people running around a restaurant style kitchen, which totally ruined all of my fantasies about working in a restaurant kitchen.


Saturday night all of us went out to dinner on Long Street, then went out to some bars and clubs. It was a lot of fun, but sad that this was our last Saturday night in Cape Town for a month. Sunday it was still raining all day, but since we had no food we had to walk to the grocery store. We bought so much crap that we had to borrow two shopping carts from the market and walk in the rain back to the house like a bunch of hobos. It was pretty awesome. When we got back I learned to tame my obsession with playing rummy by learning how to play spades. It was made even better by the great Christmas tunes Matt bumped. We figured that since it’s winter here, it might as well be Christmas. Later, we made dinner. There is someone else here who likes to cook who is also going to Jo-Burg with me, so we’ll continue to eat well the whole trip. Unfortunately, my plan to avoid all of the touchy-feely group discussion is not working out as planned. That part always seems to happen after dinner. I’m very in touch now so when I get back if anyone wants to talk about their feelings, I’m down.

Tomorrow is going to be my first day doing student workshops. I’m team teaching two lessons with some of the other fellows: one on how the Fibonacci Sequence occurs in nature and another on Psychology (obviously the other fellow is taking the lead on this one). It’ll be good to get to work; I feel like even though we’ve been super active since we’ve gotten here, it has been like a vacation.