4.21.09

Hello hello hello! The clock remains to tick down to our return home, and I got to say I’m looking forward to it. Since my last post, I’ve had two somewhat uneventful days, sorry. Yesterday we had class, got some lunch, and headed home for the night. Today was a little more exciting. We got to go to Robben Island, the Alcatraz of South Africa. Robben Island is a prison off the coast of Cape Town. Originally it was created to quarentine lepers, but when apartheid came around, it was used for political prisioner holding…only of blacks whites and colored though…obviously. Oh yeah quick note, while the word “colored” is completely politically incorrect in America, it’s absolutely fine to use here. People are either white, black, or colored (if they’re anything in between all white and all black). Anyway…Robben Island is most famous for housing Nelson Mandela during apartheid. I have to be honest, while the idea of this place was cool, it was just alright. I was expected the awesomeness of Alcatraz, but found a much more spread out, much less “this is how it was” island. Nonetheless, it was cool.
That’s about it for now. I might make another hike up table mountain tomorrow, we’ll have to see. For now though, I’m going to play some guitar, maybe watch a movie, and got to bed. See you later!