... Short Week
Tues 10th - Sun 14th April
Sadly this week I woke up with an eye infection. Gross. Thankfully there is a super-fantastic pharmacy about 20 minutes walk away, so I was able to get some gooey medicine to put in my gooey eye, but the thing about this walk is that it's 20 minutes downhill. And then you have to walk back. Up hill. And this hill, seriously, it makes Egham Hill look like a gentle slope. This may well be because it's gearing up to become Table Mountain, but that doesn't stop me having to walk up and down it anytime I want/need to buy groceries, rent videos or as in this week acquire medicines. I keep telling myself it's like a free gym, and encouraging the next step upwards by thinking how fit I will be by the end of my stay, but let's face it - a year living on the 4th floor of Founder's building didn't do much... it is these moments I most intensely regret failing my driving test.
I must add, though, that there are plenty of moments when I am relieved I failed, and don't have to manoeuvre a strange car around in Cape Town traffic!!
So this week was my first official week as "intern", now that Grace has departed these shores. It was ok. I'm still not amazingly excited or fulfilled by my work experiences, but everyone has to start at the bottom and work up, so I'm glad I can do it in an exciting place like Cape Town. I have been feeling very inspired to see the rest of Africa now, especially the other countries in Southern Africa like Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique. I am also missing Asia A LOT still. It's funny how I always seem to get restless. I worry sometimes, even in the most amazing places, how quickly I will start looking to the next thing.
Sadly this week I woke up with an eye infection. Gross. Thankfully there is a super-fantastic pharmacy about 20 minutes walk away, so I was able to get some gooey medicine to put in my gooey eye, but the thing about this walk is that it's 20 minutes downhill. And then you have to walk back. Up hill. And this hill, seriously, it makes Egham Hill look like a gentle slope. This may well be because it's gearing up to become Table Mountain, but that doesn't stop me having to walk up and down it anytime I want/need to buy groceries, rent videos or as in this week acquire medicines. I keep telling myself it's like a free gym, and encouraging the next step upwards by thinking how fit I will be by the end of my stay, but let's face it - a year living on the 4th floor of Founder's building didn't do much... it is these moments I most intensely regret failing my driving test.
I must add, though, that there are plenty of moments when I am relieved I failed, and don't have to manoeuvre a strange car around in Cape Town traffic!!
So this week was my first official week as "intern", now that Grace has departed these shores. It was ok. I'm still not amazingly excited or fulfilled by my work experiences, but everyone has to start at the bottom and work up, so I'm glad I can do it in an exciting place like Cape Town. I have been feeling very inspired to see the rest of Africa now, especially the other countries in Southern Africa like Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique. I am also missing Asia A LOT still. It's funny how I always seem to get restless. I worry sometimes, even in the most amazing places, how quickly I will start looking to the next thing.
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