Yesterday

When I haven't been studying, I've devoted this week to other pursuits, scholarly or less. More often less. This past Saturday, I went to perhaps the most fantastic place on this earth- the Woodstock farmers' market. It's this really quaint little market where all of these Capetonian venders and trendy yuppies come to spend their afternoons sampling pesto and bloody marys.  Naturally, I had a fantastic time. This past Monday (yesterday) was a really cool day. I took a final for my class Liberation in South Africa, which wasn't so cool, but once that was over, I had a really great day. A couple friends and I headed into the city to spend some time at this really great bookstore called the Book Lounge and then get lunch at one of our favorite restaurants that serves Ethiopian food.  While we were at the Book Lounge, we saw this really big protest that was expressing the refugees' discontent with the latest events in South Africa. They would walk by in huge groups, wearing shirts that said "foreigner" and carrying signs that said things like "South Africa is not safe for us." I had never witnessed a protest on that big a scale, and it was a really interesting thing to see. We walked to the Ethiopian restaurant and had a really fantastic lunch, then walked around for a little while and took a minibus home. We went out for a little bar around the corner that night and I proceeded to get stuck in the bathroom, and was saved by a very energetic woman. Naturally, all of my friends found this hilarious. Now I'm sitting in my bed prepping for my next two finals, which are tomorrow and the day after. I can't wait until they're all over and I can enjoy the time I have left here in Cape Town. Here are some photo highlights of my week:

The farmer's market:

Most punctuation-challenged sign I have ever seen, outside my local grocery store:

The view on the walk up to campus this past Sunday afternoon: