My last post

This is my last blog posting. I am going to get on a plane at 1:50 PM tomorrow to leave for Joburg. I leave Joburg at 6PM, will stop over in Dakar, then eventually arrive in DC at 6AM. It will be 15 hours of darkness. I will get into Houston around 11 AM and then will have a drive to Corsicana afterwards. Nice long 30 hour travel period.

Camps Bay on my birthday.

This last week at work there has been a fairly substantial assignment I have been working on which, apparently, I was supposed to be working on for quite a while. News to me.

My birthday was Tuesday. It was also Cary's last day, and ODAC gave us a very nice going away lunch. It also counted as my birthday lunch, as Cary had bought me a cake earlier.

I cut out of work an hour early and met up with Hirsh. We went to Camps bay with a Frisbee and some wine Cary got me for my birthday. We threw the Frisbee and watched the sun set.

After watching the sunset, we went down to the waterfront and Cary joined us at a nice restaurant outside. I had Kudu, Springbok, and Impala venison cutlets.

Fola and a date joined us, and we went to see Inception. Because there is an independent theater right next to Saasveld that shows old movies, and the fact that we had seen no movie posters or movie theaters, we just assumed that South Africa didn't get American movies for months. This is, obviously, a ridiculous thought. There are Aston Martin and Maseratti shops at the mall at the waterfront, I think that they would have movie theaters.

On the day of my 21st birthday, I went to see The Dark Knight, the last Christopher Nolan film. I figured it was a good birthday activity to keep up.
So now it is just Hirsh and me left in Cape Town. Hirsh is staying here for another week or so.

22 was a good year. Stressful, but I made a ton of new friends and saw a large part of the world I had never been exposed to before.

This trip has been excellent. I went to 8 World Cup matches and watched almost all of the tournament. I made quite a few friends and became closer to several of my Harvard buddies. My roommates and I roadtripped across country. I learned a lot from my position at ODAC, wrote part of an Amicus brief, watched Parliament and possibly influenced some legislation, learned a ton about South Africa, played with lion cubs, saw the Cape of Good Hope, elephants, giraffes, hippos, zebra, impala, rhino, and sharks. I know Cape Town really well, better than I know Boston or Dallas. And Harvard paid for much of it. Kingman out.