I think I've neglected to mention this: my room at the guest house looks out onto Table Mountain. Just like that. I have a view of a mountain. I'm still not quite used to this. It's gorgeous and the clouds settle on it in an eerie way referred to as 'the tablecloth' - I've been doing lots of sketches of it ( Read more... )

an unfortunate series of events: my laptop was stolen from my room two nights ago, and shortly after, in a separate robbery, my camera and wallet, which we later found in the sitting room (it didn't have anything valuable in it, so I suppose they left it behind to be nice.) it's been unnerving and stressful, financially and emotionally, but the ( Read more... )

we're in Cape Town! after a whirlwind week in Johannesburg, we're here in paradise. I mean that. The whole time we were in Johannesburg, people oohed and aahed when we said we were going to Cape Town, remarking, "I wish I could go, too!" At the time, we didn't quite understand it, Johannesburg being paradise enough. now that we're here, though ( Read more... )

alas! I have pages on pages of reflections on Johannesburg saved away on my laptop, but I can't seem to get them online. I'll post them, or at least samples of them [they run about 7 pages, single-spaced, at the moment] when I get the chance ( Read more... )