Recovered from Jet Lag (hopefully)

Well I'm back at campus with Jenny again this morning. We're going to get lunch here and then I'm going with her to her volunteer project in the townships. Yesterday I went into town with Jenny and he friend Amy. Amy's in the same program and we stopped by the place where she works. It's an AIDS/health clinic (it's called Walla Nani, which is the Xhosa word for embrace), but they also have a sort of small craft market for job creation. All of the money made actually goes to the people making the crafts (Dad, I got you some pamphlets, as they sell stuff online and I thought you'd be really interested). After that we went to Green Market Square, which is a rather large craft market. It was definitely an interesting experience. If you even glance at anything on one of the tables or make a half second eye contact you get a sales pitch. It's sort of overwhelming but you get used to it very quickly. For anythingyou want to buy they tell you it's about twice as much as it's worth (if you have an American accent) and then you have to haggle for the price. I picked a few interesting things, but I'm trying not to spend a bunch of money right away. We drove around the cape on the way home as driving through town during rush hour is insane. It was rather windy and the waves were at least 15 feet high and absolutely amazing. We got to see some of the really exclusive communities (Brad Pitt's new house) which are all really beautiful and right on the ocean. We went to a restaurant called the Fat Cactus, which is African style Mexican and was actualyl very good. The portion sizes here are actually normal and you don't feel like you're going to die from eating a giant plate of nachos. We also got some frozen yogurt at this really cool place near where Jenny lives on the way home. After that we pretty much just stayed in as it's not safe to be out at night without a car and Amy had to go home. Jenny and I got to watch Survivor though!!! It's a season behind here but I still got my fix. They actually have way more American TV here than in Canada. It was a big rain storm over night and is probably the most insane rain I have ever seen. It's pouring like crazy, but it's in every direction because of the wind. We went and did some groceries this morning as we're going to have a mini-party for my birthday tomorrow. We got some ostrich meat that we're going to bbq! We also got to take the mini-bus the other day, which is completely bizarre. It's basically just this large van/taxi that drives around with a guy yelling out the window for people to get on. Then you cram as many people as possible in and it makes different stops. It's really economical at like R3 (like 60 cents) and will take you to a lot of different areas. It is definitely bizarre though and I would have been scared out of my mind if I weren't with someone who knew what they were doing. That's pretty much it for now. Gonna go get some lunch. Mmmmmm....samosas.