I’m officially done with school at Stellenbosch University, forever. I can’t believe that a whole semester and four months flew by so quickly. These next few days are going to be really hectic as I get ready for a month of traveling (how awesome is that?!), then a few days back in Stellenbosch before I head home. I have to pack really light for my trip so unfortunately I won’t be able to bring my laptop. This means I’m going to have to blog from my phone- something I’ve never tried before. I’ll do my best to post as I go along, but I don’t know when or if I’ll have wifi. Regardless, I’ll put up one or two big posts about my trip after I get back to Stellies.
May has been another fun-filled month…
Wine and olive oil tasting.
Hiking at Jonkershoek Nature Reserve with the boys.
Trying to drive a little rental car up a mountain to take some cool pictures.
Our exhibition for our photography class. Some of the pictures my classmates took were so amazing! It was awesome to see the best of what everyone had been taking during the whole semester.
Drinks with beautiful people at one of our favorite bars.
Exploring cool new markets.
Finally wandering around the university’s botanical garden.
More wine tasting… this time at a place that has hundreds of ducks! The ducks parade out to the vineyards in the morning and eat snails and bugs, then they parade back in the afternoon. So people come watch them every day as they waddle in one big heard across the estate. They’re so cute!
And my 21st birthday celebration! During the day, some of my girlfriends and I went on a little hike up the nearby mountain and found a really cool spot to eat lunch. We had a beautiful view of all of Stellenbosch, the surrounding mountains and Jonkershoek. Then in the evening, a bunch of people came over to my flat and we all had pizza and drank wine before going out to one of our favorite bars. It was such a good feeling to be surrounded by such amazing people… people who I had met not even four months earlier. They made it one of the best birthdays I’ve ever have and I will never forget how I got to spend my 21st birthday in South Africa surrounded by the most beautiful souls.
I just got back from Cape Town with a few friends. We spent a day in Cape Town and went out on Long Street, then went to Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope before traveling to Hout Bay for the evening, and then we climbed Table Mountain today before doing a little shopping and coming back to Stellenbosch. The weather was perfect for both days of our hikes and I couldn’t have had a better time.
Now I’m scrambling to get everything ready before I leave at the crack of dawn Monday morning. I’ll be flying to Namibia and from there, to Botswana, Zimbabwe, back into South Africa, through Lesotho and then around exploring more of South Africa. Keep me and my friends in your thoughts as we travel all over Africa! We’re so excited for our adventures to begin!
Xo
Kim
p.s. congrats to all of my friends who just finished up finals back home, and to everyone who just graduated!!
p.p.s. Now that I’m done with classes here, I guess it might be an appropriate time to let you all know that I got accepted into the University of Maryland School of Nursing, so I’ll be going to school there in Baltimore this coming fall! Very exciting things coming in the near future and I can’t wait to follow in my mom’s footsteps!
Doing the kImpossible 