The morning started bright and early with a short info session and training for SHAWCO (Students' Health and Welfare Centres Organisation). [While here at UCT, I will be spending one afternoon a week volunteering with SHAWCO to tutor underpriviledged children who live in the areas surrounding Cape Town. Read more about SHAWCO here: http://www.shawco.org/] After the trainig, my housemate, Janina, and I went to Cocoa Wah Wah on Main Street for an amazing brunch. We both ordered their infamous cappuccions and I had a most delicious custom sandwich, complete with grilled veg, fried egg, cheese, avocado, tangy lime mayo and lettuce mmm! Afterwards, we did a bit of window shopping and strolled home.
(Picture of the area where we pick up the Jammie with a minibus "caller" who gets customers to ride with the minibus mafia by whistling and yelling out the direction in which they are going.)Feeling a bit adventurous, we decided to go out again and make our way to the Cavendish Square Shopping Center http://www.cavendish.co.za/. To get there, we tried our luck on the little minibuses running along main street that give you a lift for R5.50 each. It worked! We felt so proud, having found our way. Cavendish Square is a truly beautiful suburb of Cape Town. The shopping center there even puts South Point to shame. After two more hours of window shopping and two lekker smoothies, we came home and vegged. A perfect day to cap off a perfect first week of classes.
This is a picture from the internet of a minibus in Cape Town.
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