Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Great weekend and looks like another one to come. Had our first rugby match on Friday night against a Dutch Afrikaans club. We played on a beautiful field sitting above the city bowl, just under Table Mountain with a view of downtown and Table Bay in the background. The match wasn’t particularly well played, but certainly better than any of my games back home. The Cubs remain undefeated, but added a draw to our flawless record. I was pleased to have scored a try in my first South African match – a try in the corner off a grubber from the scrummy that I tapped a few extra yards with my foot and touched down for the score. Afterwards we had a drink-up on the UCT rugby fields while watching the A and B sides (some of the best live rugby I’ve seen). The guys are a lot of fun (as ruggers tend to be) but clearly represent a white elite, primarily of British descent (which explains how they immediately had it out for the Dutch club we played). Last week for instance we had a "practice"(you wanna talk about practice?!?!?!) in the rain for fifteen minutes, followed by beer guzzling and chain smoking with our coaches at the on-campus pub - what a great sport!
Saturday I went to Muizenberg beach to go surfing for the first time here. The surf was junk but it was great to get out in the water. I’m really excited for this weekend though. We’re going to Jeffrey’s Bay for a couple days (for those of you that don’t know, it’s one of the premiere surfing spots in the world!) and then spending a day in Addo Elephant park – all for dirt cheap. I’ll make sure to take a ton of pictures.
Sunday we went to the Stellenbosch wine festival in neighboring Stellenbosch. Stellenbosch (that's a lot of Stellenboschs) is a very cute and very Dutch town (city?) about 45 minutes from Cape Town and reminds me a lot of Napa, probably because of all the vineyards and not much else. Ten dollars got us a full day of wine tasting, bread, cheese, pesto and all the wine-o bullshitting you could handle. I actually learned a thing or two (certainly no more than three) about wine but mostly the day was spent trying all sorts of wines and pretending to know what I was talking about to the wine salesmen, which wasn’t too difficult after enough sampling. Can’t say I feel any different about wine after the festival except that I think I’d probably much prefer a beer festival.
I also added a link to pictures on the sidebar over there -------->
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