JULY VACATION (Part I) After having been part of the World Cup celebration in Stellenbosch for over 2 weeks, we decided to spend the last weeks of our holiday travelling. As people had started leaving for the winter (summer back home), Stellies got quieter and quieter for each day. So, very much on an impulse, we made some sandwiches to go and left early one Thursday morning, running to the train station in the freezing cold 6 o'clock in the morning. Our des...

Ayoba! World Cup 2010 As we wrote in the last blog, the excitement we could see in all South Africans before the World Cup started was truly amazing. Yet, after we finished our last exam after a 3day marathon with no sleep and too much coffee, and the day after when the WC opening match was taking place, it all exploded in a potpourri of joy and happiness!! We were woken up in the morning at around 05.30 by our neighbours and their vuvuzelas, followed by the ...

Wine Tours & Vuvuzelas Finally we are seeing the light in the tunnel and we have only one exam left before our first semester here in Stellenbosch is over! As we have said numerous times already, it has been unbelievable hectic, especially the last 2 months with non-stop assignments, presentations and now finally the exams. But all the hard work has paid off and we have both gotten good results so at least it's not for nothing we've gone sleepless night ...

Stellenbosch Living! After living in South Africa for almost 3 months (man, how time flies!) it's definitely time for another update of our experiences so far. And as the first sentence indicated, our blog will from now on be in English as our international friends from around the globe still does not understand the Norwegian language (funny enough!). As we mentioned in the last blog, after leaving Harnas in mid-January we jumped on a plane to Cape Town a...