Well now that I’ve summed up my entire past week in the title of this blog, I’ll explain a little more. Last week I went to a cricket game on Wednesday night. I was invited by a few friends from South Africa who had a bunch of free tickets. So me, not understanding much of anything about cricket took them up on the offer immediately. It was a very different atmosphere from any other sporting event I have been to in the past, especially the rugby game I went to last weekendI was picked up by my friend Abrie, wait let’s rewind a little more. So this is on Ash Wednesday right. The night before was the night of Fat Tuesday right. So Caitlin and I made three batches of good old homemade from scratch American Chocolate Chip Cookies, which I am becoming very well known for since I have made them at least six or seven times since I have been here! But I saved a bunch of them for the guys who I was going to the game with as a thank you for inviting me. So Abrie picked me up and we went to Andy’s house, the guy whose mom got the tickets. Then we all loaded up into two cars, I was in Abrie’s with Abrie, Tristan and Monica. The rest were in Andy’s mom’s car [my apologies I cannot remember her name but she was wonderful, very motherly and very fun! I truly enjoyed her]. When we got to the game we all had lawn chairs. Yes there were stands to sit in but no one sits in them, they all bring chairs and blankets to sit in the grass. The game was fine, I mean I now understand it and it was kind of interesting for a while. It was a little difficult to be near the cookies though because I gave up all sweets including adding sugar to my cappuccinos, nutella, and sorry dad but I gave up peanut butter too!!! It’s been difficult, but I’m still alive. I was also not eating at all on this Ash Wednesday so it was difficult at a few points when everyone else was eating and I was dying for something, but I survived and am stronger because of it! The most exciting part of the cricket game, I hate to admit, was when the lights went out throughout the entire stadium. This was around 20:30 maybe, so it was dark out, so when the lights all went out it was dark. So the players all left the field while they got the backup generator warmed up. While we were waiting for that, people began to get their flashlights on their phones going, and taking pictures, and such. The game got going again when the lights were on again. And it ended up being a game to go down in history. Evidentially they broke some huge record for a high scoring game! I was there to witness it and didn’t even really realize how big of a deal it was. I mean I understood that it wasn’t that common, but to break a record!!! So that’s lights out obviously
So now, what you’ve all been waiting for [even though you have no idea what it is]…GOLDFISH!!! To many of you this means that I bought a goldfish [roommates of Club 305 I didn’t not get a Tres Cero Cinco! But I wish I did!] Goldfish is a very good, and very popular musical group in South Africa. It was a good concert and they performed well but I haven’t been to a concert that large in a long time so it was a big weird for me to be around that many people because I’m used to going to concerts at music festivals or smaller more intimate concerts. I’m not used to people being everywhere and having to try to look over the shoulders of freakishly tall guys. But the highlight of the night might have been when I convinced a few random guys that were standing near me that I was the female vocalist on one of the songs but I wasn’t on stage because I got sick recently and am on vocal rest. It was great! I love making people believe complete and ridiculous untruths! Look out world, HERE I COME! =]
The next morning I went to the square where the concert was held and stole a couple of posters from the concert, one for me and one for a friend. Then I went to the Sunday Market and spent almost an hour looking through some great old records. I ended up giving in and buying four albums. I got the Doobie Brothers, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, and Alex you are going to be so jealous…Led Zepplin. I also bought a CD of Louis Armstrong and Guests [which I’m of course listening to right now!]. These guests include none other than Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Velma Middleton, Jack Teagarden, Louis Jordan, The Mills Brothers, Gary Crosby, and none other than my girl, the queen of jazz, Miss Ella Fitzgerald!!!
Then off to Pick n Pay for this week’s groceries. Luc and I got the bright idea to get Peta Bread and Hummus for lunch, well we couldn’t find the Hummus anywhere! We even asked multiple people that work there and they all looked at us like we were the ones who don’t speak English. But thankfully Havard was with us and is a Hufflepuff at heart because he’s great and FINDING things [If you know the musical you will understand; AJ, Darren, Kim]. He found the Hummus for us!!! W00t w00t! What would we do without him!
So that’s my past week in a nutshell! Can’t wait to hear what you all have to say about it!
LEAVE COMMENTS! I want to hear from you all back home I miss you! But not enough to come home!!! =] <3
Peace, Love, and Jesus
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