Hello from Capetown!

My first flight was a success! It was a sad good-bye but a happy arrival. I have already seen table mountain, signal hill and Camps Bay. Table mountain has an animal called a Dassie (it looks like a groundhog) but its closest relative is an elephant! We took a cable car up to Table Top Mountain which is beautiful! I can't believe the mountains here, we can see them from Athlone where we are staying. Signal Hill is basically just a hill, we went up their after dinner to see Capetown all lit up! Camps Bay is a cove like area with huge waves for surfing. There are some beautiful homes there and lots of restaurants. We went out for seafood. Everything here is beautiful and i love the palm trees.

Today we went to a market that would be like a Soho style area of Capetown. I got some great postcards that I am going to frame and some bathsalts. We went to District Six a museum commemorating a community that was removed from Capetown during the Apartheid. We went to a market (I think the green market) in Capetown after that with lots of venders selling all sorts of souvineers, we will be back again later! Oh and we went out for Malaysian food for lunch and tonight we are going to a traditional african restaurant.

I have met my students and my associate teacher. My associate seems very nice and laid back and the kids are very cute however they are very active. I think it will be a big learning experience!

The Lutheran Centre where we are staying is very comfortable and clean and the women there that cook for us are very welcoming. The walk to school is short and we pass all sorts of homes. A lot of the homes hear have huge fences with barbed wire/spikes where as others are very open, it depends on the area.

Sorry this is a mash of ideas, I hope it makes sense!

Love, Heather