Jordana Bevan

just got back from another amazing movie

Submarine

so amazing

it came out last year

it's fantastic

under the radar

the theater plays "1000 to see before you die"

I've seen a few of them already, but matteo brings me along to see really good ones

he's good with movies

I miss home dearly

things have been good here, everyone is great to me

we're having a bbq tomorrow

coldplay was great

and I get to see penguins on saturday

I do miss home though

...I'm not ready to concede to the situation

perhaps it's the feel of the movie

it's really a fantastic movie

there's this post doc here

vincent

a really fun guy, older, about 37

great man

matteo is the italian post doc

full of hilarity

I get food at 10:30 and then again at noon

and asked me if it's my lunch or prelunch

I've met his friend federico, also an italian, very nice guy

helene, is a doll, a big sweetheart, who's fun to be around

she's taught me the swears, and other afrikaans words,

especially for, You are very pretty, and sweetheart

Yeah iz baie moy, liefie

respectively

leigh is very nice

proper

very good company to be around

Len is very endearing and the genius you would take him to be

just a brilliant way of thinking

doesn't have to talk much, and when he does, so insightful

sean, is so gifted

play so many instruments, very great at chemistry

young, he's got his whole academic career ahead of him

he will excel

laura jane, is a sweetheart, adorable and thinks of all the wonderful small things that most people breeze over

anneli, is beautiful, her and matteo bicker, but it's loving

I called her a poplap the other day

which is usually reserved for a married couple

but was sweet in explaining to me the gravity of the word

skattlebol is sweetheart too I think

I go to the same deli almost everyday

it's an older lady there who's at the register, but she's very attractive for being older

a little bigger too, but short blonde hair and blue eyes, with that adorable south african accent

remembers my name

I seem to talk, and they usually tell me when girls pass and look at me, because of how different I sound

it's quite nice

many beautiful women around here

not many obese people, they watch their figure

the style is a little different

but they rock it well

and there's a surplus of mullets sported by the men here or there

everyone loves the rugby matches, the springboks or the bokkies, as they call them

so into it

it's contagious really, these guys are the quinteseential definition of MEN

something I want to do, but I'm realizing it's just not in the cards

I can respect it for sure though

it's a wonderful piece of their nationality and culture

I just met welmarie at opskop last weekend

danced a little

and did the sokkie with her briefly

was very patient with me

two days later, went on a hike with her to Jonkershoek with other chem department members

they were all so very nice

accomodating

it's a sort of hospitality that I've never seen back home

the kind that makes you want to stay forever

and the kind that makes you sad, because it's lost on many others

I wish people met these people down here

so much hustle and bustle back home, they do their work here too, but they're more content with life it seems, no matter what they do

seems as though they're just concerned with helping people

for as unsavory as it sounded from others, it's quite the opposite

they love their tea

they have tea time after a speaker talks at a seminar

in the paaldanskamer

it's just the culture

haai is the afrikaans word for shark

so the joke is to say hi, though it could be haai, as a warning

so one must be careful saying 'hi' or 'haai' at the beach

driving by the coast yesterday on the way to cape town was absolutely beautiful

I couldn't shoot a good picture

maybe it's better that way

the beach was full of waves, whitewashing along the shore and further out

we saw seal island from afar

and the road is incredible, just your typical two lane road, one going to, one coming from, but there's sand dunes and vegetation all the way up to the road

sand covers the outside lines, followed by smooth asphalt, and the other side continues with sand

extraordinary

that stadium last night was gorgeous, capacity is normally 64,100

according to wiki

it was breathtaking

A proper post will follow sometime soon, these words seem to just flow during my conversation with Kayla today