South African Christmas

After a year of tough work teaching in Mozambique I'm spending the holiday season in Cape Town, which is about as different from Mozambique as possible. I feel like I'm back in the US, which is strange. There are a lot of things that im not used to like really fast and expensive cars, coffee shops, myriads of restaurants, cool stores and bars, museums, and creativity and stimuli in general. Its a nice change of pace.

Im here with Nia and we originally thought that we would stay just a couple days in Cape Town, but weve sort of fallen in love with the place and are staying about a week. There is great hiking and beautiful beaches to explore and cage diving great white sharks. The cage diving is going to be a financial haymaker but i think its going to be worth it. Also, we are staying in a really cool hostel here called the Cat and Moose and its been great talking with other people traveling. We met some PC volunteers from Namibia and were all planning on having a big dinner tomorrow to celebrate Christmas.

Then after Cape Town were planning on continuing our trip up the eastern coast of South Africa and eventually making it back in Maputo for our midservice conference on January 11th.

So, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and hopefully I will start blogging more regularly now that I have a lap top. Its my New Year's resolution.