Waka Waka (This time for Africa)

So sorry I haven't posed in awhile but I've  been busy busy busy. I am actually worried I am going to leave Cape Town with things I didn't get to do that I wanted to do. Time is flying by!! I have already been here for 60 days and yet it seems like I arrived just yesterday. So here is a re-cap of the last 2 weeks: I volunteer in the township called Khayelitsha in a half-way community called the Ark. It is Christian based and it is for families and those recovering from drugs and/or alcohol. Sometimes I play soccer with the young boys and they are all star players!!!!!! The 7-10 years old play just as good or even better then most high schoolers back home do! They have incredible foot work. or I go to the young girls ward and we play dolls and read books. I met one girl called Cassandra and she is 10 and has a huge vocabulary and can read on a 9th grade level!!! All the children at the Ark are so well behaved and polite. Back home I see kids the same age being brats and yelling all the time while the kids at the ark for the most part seemed glad that we there to play and hang out with them.

About 2 weekends ago, I went to a naked bike race in downtown Cape Town that was part of a protest that was pushing for the use of less petrol. The lady in charge said that it was illegal to be completely naked (most people wore crazy outfits that showed as much skin as possible) There were some people who were butt-naked and I thought that must be extremely uncomfortable to bike that way. Later that day we visited Old Biscuit Mill and I had a delicious sandwich that will hold the standards for the rest of the sandwiches that I eat in my life. 2 kinds of pesto, hummus, falafel, pickles, crusty loaf of bread. That afternoon we climbed Lion's Head to watch the sunset and to climb back down by the full moonlight! The climb up took about an hour and half and we had to use chains and hand/footholds to get up some parts of the climb. Watching the sunset into the Atlantic Ocean was pretty spectacular because at home its impossible to see that. Then seeing all the lights of Cape Town and the surrounding areas light up was insane!! One moment it was dark and the next it was like a switch was flipped and the whole valley side was lit up. Well the moon didn't rise right away and when it did it was blocked by Table Mountain for a little while. But once we saw it, WOW WOW WOW WOW, it was breathtaking. It was HUGE, and it lit up Table Mountain so that you could see the outline, pretty spooky at the same time. Even with the help of the full moon the climb down took much longer and we all lost our footing a couple of times. But we all made it down with minimal cuts and bruises.  
All the fun activities have to happen on the weekend because UCT is a tough school. I have most of my classes every single day and then our lectures break out into groups of 10 or so and that group meets on another day where we have readings that we have to do and then discuss. We have been getting some of our grades back and the grading scale here is a tad different then at home. A 75-100 B 61- 74 C 50-60 and 0-49 is a F.