Day 87

I've been falling a bit behind in my blogging.... so here's what I've been up to:

Last Thursday night, I went to a Thursday night hot spot in Claremont called Tiger Tiger. I really didn't understand the hype, but when I learned there were R5 drinks from 8-10, I was sold.

I was at the bar and had an awkward bump in with some guy and his friends. We made small talk, he came over to our table, asked for my number, nice guy. As more people from my program arrived at the venue, per usual I ended up migrating away from the Americans and toward my apparent new posse. Actually turned out to be a really fun night. Cabbed home with other CIEE kids belting it to "Call Me Maybe", still very much a classic in South Africa, made a hot dog, and called it a night.

On Friday I decided to do a trial personal training session at the gym I joined. I was uncomfortably sore for two days. Returning to the locker room after my severe suffering I got a text from the guy I met the night before on my spanking new iPhone 3G saying he was spinning (he's apparently a popular DJ) at a club in town. He told me he'd put my name on "his list" with any other friends I wanted to bring. Not a bad deal. So I went over to another CIEE house with the girls I was on spring break, really fun, dependable group of girls, and we headed out to The Dragon Room. Not going to lie, I felt pretty cool walking up to the woman monitoring the door and confidently telling her I was on "Mike's list". We got in VIP with out paying the R40 cover. Scoooore! We bopped around long street a bit, I found myself eating another hot dog, my apparent night time habit, and eventually made it back home.... at 3AM. Overall, a great night.

This last week itself was somewhat of a bore. The usual same old school and little elective activity. With final exams quickly approaching (a month away), school is starting to get pretty difficult and very time consuming. So much for having a lot of free time abroad.

Remember how the bouncer from Club 31 called me to make sure I got home ok two weeks ago? Well he just so happened to text me asking me for drinks. No desire to go, but, I know have connections with a DJ and a bouncer. I've got myself a party!

My house was extremely anxious to get to Rockin the Daisies this weekend, an outdoor music festival about an hour away filled with drinking, all sorts of drugs, and apparently a crazy time. It actually did sound like something fun, but with a test next week and school really picking up, I couldn't give up a weekend for something I know would take a long time to recover from.

So that was the week. Now for a very low key weekend since my entire house but me, Joe, and Collin our RA, has vacated. Which not going to lie, I am very happy about. I am finally able to listen to the music I actually want to be listening to, I have my room to myself, it's quiet, and I can finally get some tranquility at home.