Tour of Cape Town

Last night was a very interesting night. I learned a lot from hanging out with the medical students of UCT (University Cape Town). One of the RA's in our group, Eddie, invited Derek, Victor, Walter and I to hang out with some of his friends who had just arrived back on campus for the start of their next semester. The med school students start a week earlier then the rest of the college. We got a cab and arrived at the Med Res short for Medical Residence and hung out with 8 guys who were undergraduate, pre-med students.These guys were funny. At times it felt like I was sitting in a room with a group of my friends, just that these guys talked about the World Cup. Boy do the South Africans hate Suarez. For those who dont know Suarez plays for Uruguay and got away with a blatant, in terms of the South Africans, hand ball. Uruguay was the team that knocked South Africa out of the world cup! He is hated here and it is quite comical listening to these guys talk about him.

Today we awoke at 7:00 am to get ready for a tour of the Cape Town. There were a total of 8 coach buses that took a bunch of international students arond the city of Cape Town. We saw the downtown, Maiden's Cove, Hout Bay, the penguins, Oceanview township, and the Table Mountain Nature Reserve/Cape Point. Oceanview township is a black township where many children grow up in single families and there is over a 50% unemployment rate. To avoid drugs, crime, and violence, the township has established a program where students can partake in music and dance. We ate lunch at the recreation center and the kids performed for us. These kids have talents! It was incredible to see the excitement and satisfaction of knowing that performed to their potential. The show closed with two kids who were no older then 10 doing a tribute to Michael Jackson. Both kids busted out the moon walk and other various dance moves. I will upload that video once I get it from Derek. Tomorrow we start our internships and we have to be up early so I am signing off.

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