End of Week One

I’ve decided to only upload selected photos from my trip so as not overwhelm everybody with hundreds of them. I will put up at least one album on facebook eventually, but when I get home I’d love to show all of my pictures to whoever's interested!

This is the Hillcrest Manor Guesthouse where I am living, along with the 14 other students and our TA. I share a room separated from the house in the back, the "annex," with two other girls. The view is of Table Mountain, Cape Town's distinguished landmark.

These pictures are taken at Altyd Gedacht Wine Estate. We were taken on a tour of the wine estate on an old tractor and it was a lot of fun.

This is Cape Point, the tip of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa where it juts into the sea. The views of both the Atlantic Ocean on one side and False Bay on the other side are absolutely beautiful. Luckily the weather cleared by the time we got there, and the sun was shining – it was really windy though! I would love to go back someday.

To Kesley and Erin: here’s proof that there really are penguins in South Africa! Believe me now? We saw the colony on Boulder’s Beach outside of Simon’s Town, which is located on the coast of False Bay. My favorite is the picture of the lone penguin for some reason. It just speaks to me. And the sign is just sad; obviously running over penguins occurs frequently enough that a sign is needed to address the tragedy.