I know I know I know I AM SO SORRY I HAVE DISAPPEARED
But let me assure you I have been collecting stories and
tales to share with you all and living the life I thought only possible in
dreams.
A week ago I regained full control back over my life after
having given it to the big, bad SIT for the 2 previous months.
Thus far I cannot say enough how much I love having
independence and planning abilities back in my life.
So what have I been doing with my time? Well I moved into my
house, fraternity, last week and am loving having my own room, own closet, semi
full length mirror and window with a view of Table Mountain to lock myself and
watch tv in by myself, like real college again!
As for the 4 boys occupying my kitchen constantly, it hasn’t
been what I would call neat, but it is definetly tolerable and a small
sacrifice for such great housemates.
This past weekend we had a braai, barbeque, and all hung on
the couches in our expansive courtyard/ parking area, outside the steps to each
house.
Some personal highlights of the past weeks events:
Watched American History X- a movie on my to watch list for
the past 5 years, finally got around to. Some fucked up shit if I do say so
myself, but honestly so fascinating I had to watch it all- yes all, even that
scene, yes, horrific.
Back to cooking which has been fantastic.
Starting watching United States of Tara- loving it thus far,
unbelievable that such a disease exists and Toni Collette just kills it.
Shower all the time- we have absurdly incredible water
pressure in this house and I just want to shower every second of every day now,
which has not been something I have EVER wanted to do!
Also summer is officially here! So beach days will soon become a thing...I know- what is my life? sorry i'm not sorry.
So that pretty much sums up my daily life these days-
shower, cook and watch movies all day and then for the nighttimes….
Well now that you ask! I will finally tell you what my
independent study is on.
So if you don’t know the way this program works is that
after the past 2 months of having every second of every day planned for us, we
now have a whole month on our own to study a topic of our choice and fill our
days as we please and see best fit for our ISP. I have chosen to study music in
Cape Town by going to concerts all around the city and suburbs and seeing how
the genre of music correlates with the demographic of the crowd by looking at
their race, gender, age, etc. So I began this that excellent night I had in
Stellenbosch at Bohemia, remember that post?, and since then just going to as
much live music as I can find out about. Last night I went to an open mic night
in Obz, as Gaby says “as close as you’ll get to a liberal arts community in
Cape Town” and my favorite neighborhood by a far. Some good acts, some not so
good but still very interesting to see who was there and what people were
singing about. I also saw Searching for Sugarman yesterday and if you haven’t
seen it yet, GO SEE IT! An unbelievable, like actually unable to be believed
story about a singer named Rodriguez. And yes if you have already seen it, I
plan to visit the record shop immediately and have already emailed Sugar to set
up an interview/ life talk. So that’s basically what I get to spend this month
doing, apparently we need some academic support, but ill probably not do that
part knowing myself. It has been a bit challenging to motivate myself to do
this project and not just go to karaoke as a form of live music on some nights
(last night I did a performance of Macy Gray’s famous I Try that had the crowd clapping along, a beautiful moment for me).
But now I’m really into and just excited to see as much music as possible in my
last 5 weeks, I know I cant believe it either, here.
I really feel like I live here these days also. Like to get
to wake up and just transport yourself to a lunch spot of your choice, with one
person is such an underrated reality and something I have not been able to do
for so long. I also think I just appreciate and need my independence much more
than others on my program and thrive on using public transportation to a small
event, that I found out about through word of mouth.
i'll put some pics up of my frat house soon as soon as I take them. go play in the snow for me northeast friends!
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