First Days in Cape Town

**School Front, Does NOT do it justice!

**Courtyard in middle of school building (this one is the main one but there are 4 other ones throughout the school, the pond in the middle has real goldfish and this one is kinda the center of the entire school, all the other hallways surround it or come off of it

**front of School, (from the side)table mountain in backround

**Soccar field, with more table mountain and school building

**again,

**Again, Note: "Tablecloth"

**Back of School Grounds

Hello All,

Sorry it has taken me this long to post anything but i have arrived!! Honestly I think I've been staying away from the computer/phone in order to avoid homesickness but today was a good day so I am feeling less like skipping the country. (bound to completely wear off in a weeks time). Since I got here we have been pretty busy. I arrived at 12:30ish SA time on Monday night (5:30 CND time) and tried to go to sleep immediatly since I had not sle[t at all on the plane- needless to say it did not work out quite the way I wanted. (also added humidity and bird noises!) but I was able to sleep till 9 on tues morning because the students had yet to arrive. I was able to fully shower and unpack and home-ify my room. Then we met with Jenn, my boss here. She is super nice but very busy right now because she had 7 exchanges that arrived that day and they were having a bit of a hard time, plus she is head of matric (what gr 12 is called here) and they have a lot of responsibilities within the school (almost more than us gaps to be honest haha) Aftwerwards we sold books to the students which apparently is a HUGE job since each student from gr 4 up needs like 10 books (makes university book buying look small). Luckily we don't have to deal with money since both marina and I are completely lost on how rands work. Last night we played some games, chatted, hug out with the dorm girls (girls who are around our age that are hired to work in the dorms- they come to our place because we have a common room/kitchen/tv/computer etc) and watched a bit of Tv. I was pretty tired so decided to go to bed around 10- but apparently I am still on Canada time cuz I fell asleep at 3:30 am.. But today hasn't been to rough suprisingly. LOTS of work selling books again and then in the afternoon we went down to long street (a street full of shops and markets- kind a hot spot) It was pretty nice and soooooooooooooooo hot today which made for nice walking. Also the mountains around here a spectacular and very fun to look at. We just got back from dinner- (meals have been very good so far) and i think it will be a quiet night with an gravol around 8:30 that will hopefully put me on SA time by 9:30. Tomorrow Marina and I are going over to Nina's for dinner (I have been working a bit with Nel- her mom who invited us) Also I am goign tio try to rope nina into going to VOtacom with me because I have bought a cell phone plan but I am unable to text long distance... which was a large portion of the point. So hopefully I can get that sorted. I took some pictures of the shcool/campus so you can see how beautiful it is. Sorry mum no people pictures this time but I promise some to come! Love to all I miss you guys!!

x Heather

ps. There are open courtyards in the middle of the school building which are really beautiful but right now it is so windy it is blowing everyone's stuff everywhere haha