So tonight is my second to last night in South Africa. Like Sara mentioned, we’ll both still be blogging here over the summer, along with some new kids (if you want to post something from where you are, just let us know!). Meanwhile, rather than something long and ponderous, I thought I’d finish up here with some lists.
Things I’ll miss about Cape Town
– rotis
- minibuses
- Table Mountain
- Wind/rain/sun
- Cheap fruit
- Avocado season
- Victorian cottages
- Gigantic bugs
- Headlines on telephone poles
- Intense papers, low-key finals
- Students walking barefoot
- Good wine and being old enough to drink it
- People from all over the world in your classes
- Always having somewhere new to visit
- A society constantly moving forward and struggling with its contradictions
- Ibises and guinea fowl
- not understanding what everyone is saying around me
Things I miss about the States
- not having to look over your shoulder constantly
- public transportation
- bandwidth
- understanding what everyone is saying around me
- fitting in
- a decent student newspaper
- my family
- the New York Times in print
- iced coffee
- social mobility
- living on campus
- front yards you can see from the street
- biking everywhere
- permanence
- hummus and tofu
- Brooklyn
- Bwog
- 24 hour libraries, grocery stores
- having responsibility
Things I’ll be bringing with me from Cape Town to the States
- taking notes by hand
- biltong, hot sauce, and Coke light
- feet in really bad shape
- skype
- fearlessness
- knowledge of [what racism looks like] [how the world sees America] [how to write papers]
wow! As a spectator contributing editor, I am proud we were able to fit your criteria for “decent!”
By: saravogel on June 10, 2008
at 9:32 pm
Lydia, we’ll have to go to the Bronx zoo this fall to hang out with some ibises. They have an indoor, open air exhibit with a whole flock of the scarlet variety.
By: anna c. on June 17, 2008
at 5:18 pm