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Cape Town, and my impressions.
- by scottienl,
- 17 March 2010
- Posted in Internship in Cape Town
Coming from the tiny student town of Emmen to a large metropolis like Cape town was a very exciting prospect for me. I have traveled every continent now, but the thrill of the experience of ´ living ´ somewhere new is different. To introduce myself, my name is Scot, and im pretty much an experience junky, with a love for a food, and a hugely ambitious business mind. What I mean about experience junky, is I have to have, new, different, amazing experiences constantly not to feel completely pointless. My life in Emmen was very full, every Monday live music, Tuesday was the cooking night, Wednesday the campus party night, thursday the club night, friday always something different and a weekend away, seeing as everything is so close by in the Netherlands. So I wondered what it would be like here.
I am just about two weeks into my time here and I have to say, so far, I am just amazed. From the first night I lay my bags down in my apartment and went straight for one of the popular student areas, its been wow-time ever since. From the amount of amazing party you can have, with great choice of venue, drink and music style, like the Karma lounge, or random champagne bars to the grungy tin-roof and blazer only Hemisphere, its just been great. Many of these kinda places you couldn´t visit in A´dam unless you had a few million stashed away thats for sure. That comes to my other point, being business minded. You will find alot here that Europe is missing, even thought we call it the amazing first world !
Apart from the night life, things like climbing up signal hill with some new friends I met at dusk with two bottles of wine to watch the sun set over the most amazing vista you will see, visiting the mountain side vineyards of Franschoek and Stellenbosch or just sitting on the steps of the very tourist like but gorgeous V&A waterfront give you that calming feelings of feeling good to be alive. A reminder of why we´re actually living.
You always hear of ´ Wild Africa ´ I think it doesn´t meant just the animals and wilderness. ( Which I have yet to see ) Its well, for me coming from a open yet reserved country, also about the spirit of the people, its wild. In a good way. Hard to explain, you´ll have to come visit.
Thats all for my first post !
Scottienl
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