Month: March 2016

Welp, I’ve been locked away in my room, laying in bed for the past two days.  That’s right, I’m sick.  I wasn’t feeling well last Friday or Saturday but by Sunday I felt like I was back to normal.  I went to a wine festival and then on Monday I wasn’t feeling too good again. When I woke up on Tuesday I felt like I had been hit by a train.  My lymph nodes were super swollen so I decided to go to the health center on campus.  The doctor wasn’t 100% sure what I have but she said said it’s most likely tonsillitis.  So I got a whole bunch of medications prescribed and was sent off to the pharmacy at the mall.  That was a whole nother adventure.  The doctor sent me to the cheapest pharmacy in the mall, which turned out to only have one of the exact medications that doctor prescribed.  The pharmacist tried to give me two medications that were similar to the prescribed medication, and one that was apparently the same medication but a different brand.  And of those three, two became over-the-counter drugs.  I don’t know about you, but that did not sit well with me.  I tried asking him to call my doctor and double check that it was okay, but he refused to do it.  After a little back and forth bantering, I finally had to explain to him why I was so hesitant to take the other medications.  He then agreed to call the doctor but of course, by then the doctor’s office had closed and everyone had gone home for the night.  The pharmacist suggested that I go to a different pharmacy and see if they had exactly what I needed, since I wasn’t content with what he was offering me.  By this point I was really frustrated, I felt like shit and I just wanted to go home.  Luckily, the next pharmacy I went to had the right medications and I was out of the door and on my way home within fifteen minutes.  I was hoping that by this morning I would be feeling better but I woke up with a fever higher than the one I had yesterday.  I took my meds and have been feeling better since, so hopefully when I wake up tomorrow I’ll be on the mend!  I really need my body to cooperate with me… especially since my fall break begins tomorrow!

Technically break doesn’t start until this weekend but since I have no classes on Fridays and my afternoon class got cancelled for tomorrow, I will officially be on fall break as of 1pm!  I’m going on a road trip with a few of my friends and we are going to do some awesome stuff!  Then a big group of us are going to a beach house for a couple of days and then we’ll be doing some smaller trips after that.  I don’t want to spoil anything but I can’t wait to show you all what I’ll have done!!!

In the past few weeks I went on a weekend trip to Gansbaai (Hans-by) with my photography class, went on a photography practical in Muizenberg with my photography class, did some more wine tasting, made tons of cool crafts with my class and started cooking a lot of delicious meals for myself and for others!  I’ve been trying to improve my cooking over the past couple years and this chapter in my life has given me the perfect opportunity to do so.  I’m absolutely loving it!

During our Gansbaai trip, we got to stay in little cabins by the beach with our friends.  The stars were so clear the first night… I wish I hadn’t been so lazy and had gotten my camera out!  We also got to party with our teacher and the international students coordinator which was pretty cool if I say so.  Some of my friends also went shark cage diving but I did not.  We went to a bunch of different locations by the water in Gansbaai to take some cool photos.

Here are some of my favorite pictures… most of them are from the photography practical and the Gansbaai trip!

I can’t wait to check in with you all in another week and a half! Stay happy and healthy until then!

xo

Kim

This past weekend was absolutely amazing and created numerous memories that I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life.

I was fortunate enough to go to Ultra with a bunch of my friends- my very first music festival!  Going in I had absolutely no idea what to expect, I just knew it would be crazy fun. Ultra is a two-day EDM festival with tons of djs and tons of people.  It’s only held in one place in the US each year- Miami. How cool is it that I get to say that my first music festival was in Cape Town, South Africa?! One of the coolest things was that we were able to get VIP tickets since they were cheap.  This is something that wouldn’t even be imaginable in the US (VIP tickets go for over $1200).  The tickets gave us access to private bathrooms, bars and food, which came in really handy.

It was a stressful day leading up to the festival but once we got there, everything was worth it!  I stayed in a B&B in Hout Bay with some of our friends, while others went back to school after the first night.  Hout Bay is an absolutely gorgeous area with an insane view.  The B&B had a cute little pool and deck which overlooked the city out onto the Bay.  The beach looked really clean and beautiful from afar but unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to go there.

The first night (Saturday) we didn’t head off to the festival until about 7:30.   Surprisingly I didn’t feel out of place and joined right in with everyone dancing.  Within about five minutes of arriving, someone stepped on my friend’s shoe and broke it.  A little while later, she tripped on that foot and ended up fracturing it in four places (something we didn’t find out until yesterday).  It made our weekend pretty interesting.  The headliners that night were Zedd and Skrillex.  I definitely think that Zedd was my favorite out of both nights.  I didn’t take my GoPro the first night so I only have some low quality, short videos 😦 Everything ended at 2 that night, so needless to say, we were up very late and didn’t get a whole lot of sleep.  To make matters worse, my friend got her fanny pack stolen, which had her phone, wallet and passport in it.  We never found it, but yesterday someone messaged her on Facebook to say they had found her passport!  The next day we didn’t head to Ultra until about 5 o’clock, which gave us plenty of time to hang out by the pool, relax and recharge before the night ahead of us.  That night, the headliners were Afrojack and Tiesto- Afrojack was my favorite.  Unfortunately, tragedy struck again.  My friend had his phone stolen out of his pocket as he was walking through the crowd away from the stage.  We got back to the B&B at about 12:30, much earlier compared to the night before, but we were all so exhausted and passed out almost immediately.  The next morning was Monday and we had to wake up at a reasonable time to make sure we got back to Stellies for class.

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I had so much fun last weekend and I wish that I could just go back and relive it all over again.  The weather was amazing, the music was unbelievable, but the people I went with were really what made it such a good time. We were able to make it to the front of the crowd both nights and danced like crazy for hours.  I was even able to get up on a friend’s shoulders and get a sick view of everything. Watching the videos I took gets me so pumped but so sad that it the festival came and went so fast.  I’ve already joked with a couple of friends that in a few years, we’re all going to fly back to Cape Town and go to Ultra together.  Honestly, I’d be pretty disappointed if we didn’t make it happen.

p.s. A huge thanks for Joey and Markus for helping me capture some of these pictures and videos!!