we live in a beautiful world

i am currently laying on my stomach on my bed in my room, enjoying a relaxing, lazy day of basically nothing. i ran a few errands this morning in rondebosch, which is the town down the street from where we live (we live in mowbray). basically anything you'd need is in rondebosch, or at at least the necessities - several grocery stores (of varying price, quality, and scariness), pharmacies, a few clothing stores, restaurants, etc. then i spent a few hours at a restaurant to have lunch and try to use their free wi-fi, although it was pretty spotty and i ended up reading a book i bought instead. it's a beautiful day.

yesterday we went to a rugby game, which was pretty cool. i'm still a little unclear about the whole situation of rugby in general - we were watching the a cape town team, but i'm not sure if there's a national team as well... and i tried to learn the rules as we were watching, but it's pretty much just chaos and a lot guys running straight into each other. it really does make football look like child's play; when somebody got hurt, they would usually not even stop the game, but rather just keep playing and eventually someone would come over to check out the guy laying on the ground.

at night, my friend katelyn made dinner for a few of us at katrina's house, and then we went out to la med, which is a bar/club in clifton, which is an affluent area on the other side of table mountain. it was a completely awesome place, all open-air and a lot of room to sit or mingle outside; it's right on the beach, had a live band for part of the night, and was full of a lot of attractive, beachy (is that an adjective?) people. it was a ton of fun, but now (as per usual) i'm really tired, and i also have a cold or something of the sort... several other girls have strep throat already - i think we're all just run down and getting used to the new surroundings. that's about all i have for now. 

ps - happy birthday marie!