Drumming, Jazz, Capoeira and Surfing. Could the weekend get any better?
Hello!
Just a quick update...you'll see us here studying at our new favourite hangout, Bean Bag Bohemia. Check out the photos we've uploaded from our last week or so (in the new set called "first week of March"...real creative we know :) for more new pics!
Let's see, what have we be up to...well, we're still battling to get our schedules finalized, but Allison has been attending a Pollution Control Master's class for a couple of weeks now, and Laura and Christina had our first session of Human Rights and Constitutional Litigation which is going to take us through the South African Bill of Rights. We will all be SUPER stoked if we can get these classes to fly.
Also, on Friday Laura hooked us up with a really cool group of guys. You'll all be happy to read that we have friends...almost. But they've agreed to two further invitations since, which we figure is a good sign. And yes Maya, some of them are cute boys :)
Allison had a real rager on Friday, which was a good thing because then she had to spend the WHOLE weekend studying her a** off. Well, she did manage to sneak in a few (really bad) DVD's and a drumming lesson, but she definitely gets the Most Time Spent at the Library So Far award.
The best day of the weekend for Laura and Christina was definitely Sunday. Laura started it off with an 8:30am surf lesson. She caught a few waves, although admittedly one really huge one kicked the crap out of her because she paddled out further than the instructor had suggested. She came home just in time to catch Christina leaving for what was billed as an afternoon of jazz and cheap beer out in Pinetown. We had heard of Pinetown, but neither of us could remember why. Turns out it's because it is a really, really run down area of town that happens to have a lot of cool stuff, including an as-yet unexplored place called Fruit and Veg City (high up on the hit-list) and this jazz cafe which was apparently a hotspot for the anti-apartheid movement and the only openly integrated venue in this formerly white neighbourhood. It was rad. Laura is currently struggling to get you some videos online, but until then, the pics in our photoalbum from this place are a must-see.
Laura managed to sneak in a late-afternoon trip to the beachfront to play capoeira (a Brazilian martial art) with her new group which offers beginner lessons Tuesdays and Thursdays at the school for dirt cheap. Then the three of us met back up to polish off the day with what is becoming a weekly event: drumming lessons at the Stables Market. We're going back there Wednesday to check it out when the whole thing is open because it looks like it would be a really cool little market place.
One last vingette: at Stables market, there is a little cafe that was still open and sold us the most delicious iced coffees yet. The owner directed us to a place called A&S on Sydney Road. We found it on a map and decided to drive it end-to-end. We figured it was a sign when it turned out to be on the corner of Sydney and Canada roads! But we couldn't see a door and we were in the middle of a warehouse district. So we phoned the number on the side of the building. We think it was the accents that got them to buzz open the huge gate and let us traipse through their shipping department where they were in the middle of loading their trucks! It was hillarious, but worth it...now we can feed our addiction in the comfort of our own home.
Okay, that's it for now folks! Until next time...
:)Allison, Christina and Laura
Just a quick update...you'll see us here studying at our new favourite hangout, Bean Bag Bohemia. Check out the photos we've uploaded from our last week or so (in the new set called "first week of March"...real creative we know :) for more new pics!
Let's see, what have we be up to...well, we're still battling to get our schedules finalized, but Allison has been attending a Pollution Control Master's class for a couple of weeks now, and Laura and Christina had our first session of Human Rights and Constitutional Litigation which is going to take us through the South African Bill of Rights. We will all be SUPER stoked if we can get these classes to fly.
Also, on Friday Laura hooked us up with a really cool group of guys. You'll all be happy to read that we have friends...almost. But they've agreed to two further invitations since, which we figure is a good sign. And yes Maya, some of them are cute boys :)
Allison had a real rager on Friday, which was a good thing because then she had to spend the WHOLE weekend studying her a** off. Well, she did manage to sneak in a few (really bad) DVD's and a drumming lesson, but she definitely gets the Most Time Spent at the Library So Far award.
The best day of the weekend for Laura and Christina was definitely Sunday. Laura started it off with an 8:30am surf lesson. She caught a few waves, although admittedly one really huge one kicked the crap out of her because she paddled out further than the instructor had suggested. She came home just in time to catch Christina leaving for what was billed as an afternoon of jazz and cheap beer out in Pinetown. We had heard of Pinetown, but neither of us could remember why. Turns out it's because it is a really, really run down area of town that happens to have a lot of cool stuff, including an as-yet unexplored place called Fruit and Veg City (high up on the hit-list) and this jazz cafe which was apparently a hotspot for the anti-apartheid movement and the only openly integrated venue in this formerly white neighbourhood. It was rad. Laura is currently struggling to get you some videos online, but until then, the pics in our photoalbum from this place are a must-see.
Laura managed to sneak in a late-afternoon trip to the beachfront to play capoeira (a Brazilian martial art) with her new group which offers beginner lessons Tuesdays and Thursdays at the school for dirt cheap. Then the three of us met back up to polish off the day with what is becoming a weekly event: drumming lessons at the Stables Market. We're going back there Wednesday to check it out when the whole thing is open because it looks like it would be a really cool little market place.
One last vingette: at Stables market, there is a little cafe that was still open and sold us the most delicious iced coffees yet. The owner directed us to a place called A&S on Sydney Road. We found it on a map and decided to drive it end-to-end. We figured it was a sign when it turned out to be on the corner of Sydney and Canada roads! But we couldn't see a door and we were in the middle of a warehouse district. So we phoned the number on the side of the building. We think it was the accents that got them to buzz open the huge gate and let us traipse through their shipping department where they were in the middle of loading their trucks! It was hillarious, but worth it...now we can feed our addiction in the comfort of our own home.
Okay, that's it for now folks! Until next time...
:)Allison, Christina and Laura
posted by AXL in Africa at
4:49 PM
4 Comments:
quiz - who was actually typing?
hmmmm....gotta read it again before i lay my vote.
cool videos - i love jazzy tunes!
It was me...tee hee hee...
Hi girls,
I just happened to stumble across your blog, and it has made me so happy today. I grew up in Pinetown and spent a few good (drunk!) Saturday afternoons in the Rainbow. In those days not many white people ventured 'across the road' to the black part of town, but we were teenagers, no harm could come to us!
Your description of the alleyways in Durban, with the monkey heads etc. bought back strong memories. I would while away my days in this exotic part of town, eating bunny-chows usually ending up at the beach. I never had a car so I would end up walking for miles, but loving it.
I now (for the last 10 years) live in London. I do so miss my home and my family. Thank you so so much, I have visited many of my favourite haunts while reading your blog (Bean Bag Bohemia!!), and I wish you all the best.x
Vaughn.
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