Garden Route Holiday... Thursday, 20 March We left on Thursday at about 5pm (just after everyone's last class of the day). I had the good fortune of having that last class be service learning which just happens to be one of my east favorite classes of all time. Anywho, we added up to be 7 vans (2 left earlier in the day) and 59 people (8 drivers all of who are students at Stellenbosch and really cool people). That day we drove straight until about 2am with only a...

Recap from my birthday weekend: So Saturday started with my first South African rugby match. It was the most people I have ever be at a math so seeing stands of people watching and having not proved myself yet, I had a bit of pressure. The best part was that Hans-georg cam and brought some of m flat mates to the match so while it was about 20 minutes away I still had people there cheering me on J it made me happy. The game itself was fun but exhausting. I playe...

5 March 2008 Water Polo: So again I was walking through campus and came upon another event option. So these random guys were walking around in Speedos and handed me a flyer for their Water Polo match against the University of Cape Town. Knowing that one should never turn down an invitation from such people, I gathered up some people and we all went to the pool at about 8pm last night. First off, I have no idea how they can play such a sport. I would surely dro...

Recap from the last five days: So Wednesday is called "little Saturday" meaning that it's the second biggest go out day at Stellenbosch (much like at Elon). Well I went out with my rugby team after practice to a local bar and had a drink and compared cultures. It was very interesting to sit and talk about everything from: who actually wears cowboy boots to rugby songs. I'm really starting to like the girls, and I think that'll I'll start looking forw...

So basically I had the most random and amazing weekend thus far. So, I randomly was handed a flyer in the Neelsie for canoe club and thought that it sounded cool. Well to begin their season they have an open social weekend that cost 150R. I have wanted to meet more local people so I hopped on aboard to see what it was all about. I arrived at the Neelsie on Saturday morning with about 50 other people and loaded into a bus that was not made to hold that many peopl...