I have gotten a chance to go out and let me tell you South Africans really know how to party! I don’t know if I can get used to drinking wine at every single meal. The hot places are Cybar (which happens to be right behind my house), Chrome (where yes, they do play Soulja Boy! So fun!), Mizolis (a huge block party braii in the townships), and Bronx (crazy gay bar). LOVE IT! First weeks of South Africa…definitely yes!

However, Tuesday was my first day of classes…NOT! So I got up all mentally prepared to start my first day of African classes. I walked up to Jameson Hall and it was a zoo. Let me tell you the UCT yard is nothing I have every seen before- wild, buzzing, crazy, loud, fill in many more adjectives! So I’m trying to figure out where I am supposed to be and somehow I don’t actually have classes on Monday? But I do? But not this Monday? The whole actual school party of studying abroad is the most confusing thing ever. There are lectures but then there are tutorials and nothing is MWF or Tues/Thurs like it is at Spelman its kind of just figure it out somehow and no one tells you anything. I’ve already had a presentation, its suddenly really serious.

As far as the yard aspect of UCT, its pretty much awesome. I almost felt like I was at Morehouse’s Hump Wednesday today. The Blackberry phone company threw a party on the Jameson Hall stairs where MC’s competed for a new phones. This guy from my study abroad program got on stage and killed it…in my opinion… but I don’t think the South Africans understood the Atlanta Freaknik and Chicago references so no Blackberry for the American.

Bottom line of my study abroad experience so far in Cape Town- Studying-No…Abroad-YES!!!!!!