Back to Cape Town...

Well, yes, I am indeed going back to Cape Town.

I have been offered an interview for a Chevening Scholarship, and unfortuanetly I can only have the interview in Cape Town, so after much deliberation I have decided to fly back for 5 days (!?!?). Very crazy I know, but gotta live life without regrets, and the course that I would study with the scholarship (Applied Environmental Economics) is something I'd really like to do, so as eminem says some opportunities comes once in a lifetime, yo.

Until then life carries on here, with working at the ice rink going well. Tomorrow I'm off to the second seminar of a series that Holle and I are attending on Psychoanalysis, Colonialism and Decolonization. The first was really interesting, and the reading for this one has also been good.

Something for your Sunday morning...

because sunday mornings are all about spreading love...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2689DultCE

if i was with you you'd definitely get one too!

German sayings...

As my german rapidly expands (I fear somewhat like a helium baloon slowly floating upwards towards the sun...) I come across some things I like and some things I don't. So here's one of each:

I don't like "doch". There is no english word for doch (thank goodness), but it is basically used to tell someone they're wrong. So if I said there are no more trains to Berlin, but you knew or thought there were, you'd say Doch, there are (or just doch). Bit too abrupt for my english sensebilities.

I like "feierabend". Again there is no english word (that I know of), but it is basically the time after work. So the customers at the end of the day say "Schön Feierabend!" to the person serving them, and all the people who work together say "Ich habe jetzt feierabend" (I now have finished wrk time) once they're finished work and are refusing to do anything more their boss tells them.

I'm currently enjoying a Berliner Pilsner (fast becoming a firm favourite) and contemplating my moving into my new (super cool) room tomorrow after work.

A place of my own..

Just a quickie (oh behave!) to say that I haven't heard from the flat people I was hoping to today... they are going to phone me tomorrow.