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Day #25

Today we were off, free to do what we want. 

As I'm now in the pattern of waking up early I was awak after 7 so decided to go for a run before breakfast at 8.30. 

Today me and Moritz had decided to tag along with some of the girls and go to the Castle of Good Hope and District Six Museum. 

So we left to catch the 9.40 Mycity bus link to town. The MyCity bus link was put in for the 2010 World Cup and is really good. It's the best way to travel especially at rush hour as the buses have they're own route off the roads. I had to borrow a card from one of the other volunteers as that's what you use to put money on and pay for travel, like a London tube Oyster card. 

Once in town we eventually managed to find our way to the Castle. After getting tickets sorted we were In and ready for the guided tour guide. The tour guide was very funny and made the visit really fun and interesting. He kept calling me Mr.Liverpool and making British jokes aimed at me so it was a good laugh. 

Interesting to hear about the castle and it's history. 

Got to see all of the grounds, the torture chamber and the prisons. (Here's Moritz and the prison area)

After that we walked up towards the District Six Museum. On the way we were looking for a place for lunch and stumbled across one of Cape Towns most known and famous food spots. 

Charlys bakery is known for it's amazing cakes! Also it has some good savoury pastries as well. 

For lunch I had a beef sausage roll which was pretty good and a triple choc brownie which again was pretty good. The others had some amazing looking cakes as well. I will definitely have to go back again and try some more!

Next we headed to the District Six Museum which was just around the corner. The museum is all about the famous area District 6 and all it's history. In summary, this is an area in the central of Cape Town where around 35,000 people lived. Then the authorities decided that a restructure of the area was needed to make it more comofta or for white working class so a law was passed and all these people where removed from their homes, businesses, jobs, communities... And dropped in the Cape Flats in much worse living conditions. 

It was interesting to hear the stories of the people and exactly what happened when. I didn't realise how established this community was, I pictured it to be like a township with metal huts but these people were living and working in buildings, a built society and they were removed to the scraps. 

Saw a great saying...

Really like this saying. Hope and dreams is all we have sometimes and what better than a Hope in Jesus!! 

After the museum we stopped of at some shops. With some of my birthday money I bought myself some shoes. It was crazy how cheap they are over hear, cost me £28 for a really good pair of Nike shoes, made up! I know that after reading this Nat will be measaging me with a shopping list. 

We got back at 4.45 and then we left at 5 with all of the other volunteers. Once a week we have a social and tonight we were doing something very traditional to a South Africa... Ice Skating. 

We went to something like a Trafford Centre in Manchester but it was a Casino; it was bigger, better and less cheesy! I wasn't as good as I hoped at Ice Skating, I was the first to fall flat on my bum but I got into it and we had a really good time. 

After that we went out for a meal. My heart sank as we walked into a Cape Town Fish Market restaraunt but my eyes lit up to see a 300g Steak and boy was it good :) had a really good time with some good friends with some really good food. 

After the meal we went to a club there in the casino and also got the chance to watch some of the lads loose some money in the casino (Surprise surprise). It was crazy how big the casino was and the number of machines and tables. 

I had a really good day and a great night. Some really good people here and it's good to get to know them more and more. 

God bless.