MOLO from South Africa!

Hey guys!

Sorry its been a while since my last update! I am about to be late for some group work so this will be short.. Cape Town has been great though! We are no longer living in Langa, we moved into the Bo Kaap last week. Langa is the first township created outside Cape Town, kind of like a suburb, during the apartheid to segregate black people. Bo Kaap is very close to downtown, by like 4 blocks, and is a predominately muslim community. The family that I am staying with is very sweet. They host a lot of study abroad students, I am there with my roommate Laura, and 2 other guys from our program, plus a girl from Turkey name Ume and a guy from S.Korea named Kim. They are both here studying english. Apparently its really common to come here because its cheaper to study english. Not to mention absolutely beautiful! Table mountain is gorgeous, I have an amazing view from my house as its on a hill over looking the city. This coming Saturday my friend Joey and I are planning to hike it. A lot of ppl from our group hiked it last weekend, but I was actually cage diving to i missed it! SO fun.. South Africa has a large g.white shark population, so we went out for the morning on a boat and were able to hang out like 3 feet from them! loads of fun pics.. again, I promise to send some when I get time! (sry!) We have 6 days of vacation in 2 weeks. I am planning on staying in Cape Town, just at a Backpackers. One day a few of us are going to bike down to Cape Point and stay the night, I am really excited to be in the atlantic and pacific ocean in the same day. This past sunday we all went out for a nice dinner for Ying's Birthday. I had osterage- which was delicious. I cant rem. the name of the rest. but they had quite a variety of game. Our guest professors have been great. All teach at the Univ. of Cape Town. I am running out of time now so I will try to write another in the next few days. I wish everyone could come see me! I Hope things are going well back in the states.. heard our Steelers are doing great, hopefully this weekend will go well. love you all!!!! send me some stories!!!! and keep me in your prayers.. there have been attempted muggings on 4 of our students so far in S.A, 1 girl at 4pm in the afternoon!! but thankfully each time someone nearby helped in the situation and noone was harmed or had anything stolen.
xoxo
Amy Lynn