I am all moved in and settled in my new apartment!! I have a single which is awesome and I live with two other people named Hailey and Luke. I hate them...just kidding they rock. But we have a cute little living room area and a kitchen and a balcony which will be amazing to have once it gets warm. The only bad thing about the place is the bathroom. It is a joke. Anyone over 170 pounds would not be able to fit in it, I promise and the door is a sheet of paper. The three of us are going to get very comfortable with each other. But I am still really happy to be in this flat because we have been able to have people over to hang a bunch and the living room is really comfy.
On Sunday we did a Peninsular tour which took us all over the city and opened our eyes to the millions of adventures to come.We ate lunch in the Ocean View township at the community center and people from the community sang and danced for us. I tried to tell all of my new friends that I am a professional break dancer back home but not of them believed me, as they shouldn't. Brooke, I am still making up facts left and right and Hailey has already caught on and calls me out on my BS. The last stop on the tour was my personal favorite. We went to the Cape Point Nature Reserve and walked up to the light house at the point which had some great views and then to the Cape of Good Hope. At the Cape of Good Hope the ocean was insane...I think I'm gonna learn how to swim for real while I am here because that will probably be an important talent to have, especially when I go shark cage diving (next week most likely so keep a look out for that post). Then at  night we went to dinner at Beluga sushi for half priced cocktails and sushi. Beluga is a really nice restaurant and the bill total was ridiculously cheap, definitely going back here every sunday. After eating some of the best sushi I have ever had, we went to Cafe Caprice in Camps Bay. It is right on the water and is a hot spot for celebrities and SA professional athletes so of course everyone there was very pretty.

some Tulanians!

view from the Cape Point light house 

Dinner at Beluga

Yesterday during the day a group of us went into the city to do a little bit of exploring. We went to the waterfront first to the craft market there. If I like you enough I will definitely be coming back with some goodies from this place. All in all, the waterfront is just a touristy spot that is 100% foreigners so I probably won't be hanging out down there very often but it is really nice because it is right on the water (obviously). One aspect of the waterfront that is really cool though is the ferris wheel type thing that looks like the London Eye. DEFINITELY want to do that at one point because I'm sure the views are unreal. After the waterfront we walked to Long St. which is like Royal St./Bourbon but nice. There are a ton of bars on it and really cool shops and then on the side street plazas there are little markets. We went to Greenmarket Square on Shortmarket St. where I bought an awesome tapestry that will be perfect for house in NOLA and my room here. I am practicing my bargaining skills, I got the lady who sold me my tapestry to drop the price from R350 to R200 :) Anyway, after an awesome day of shopping we went up to the top of Table Mountain with a couple of bottles of wine to watch the sunset. Pinotage is the type of red wine that is unique to South Africa and can only be produced here so we have been drinking that and it is delicious. The views from the top of Table Mountain were incomparable to anything I have ever seen. I felt like I was on top of the world. We all agreed that this was the greatest thing that we have done so far and we got some great pictures to remember it by. At night we went out with two RAs named Linda and TK who have fire cracker personalities and are absolutely hilarious. We went to a bar called Mitchell's (Hey chels and mitch! ;)) for karaoke night and my friend Taylor rapped which is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I wasn't feeling too hot this morning though. Now I am about to go pre-register for school. Because the internet is pretty spotty in Cape Town, registration is all done by paper, so you have to wait in line for hours. After that is done,  if I don't throw myself to the sharks, we are going to the flea market to get some cheap.

Lunch at Neighborhood on Long St.

view from the top of Table Mountain

Hailey and I are becoming close with our security guard Abbo and he is teaching us how to speak Xhosa (pronounced Cosa). He is going to teach us a word a day. Here is what I have learned so far..not sure how to actually spell them but this is how they are pronounced:
Mol-loh: Hello
oon-jah-nee: how are you?
pee-lee-lay: I am good!
la-la-goom-nand: have a beautiful sleep (this is my favorite and is really nice to say)