Yeh, so over the vac I took a little roadtrip to the C of T and stayed with my brother in his flat,, the dates of my stay tied in perfectly with the start of the Fifa Soccer WC so the place was definetly a vibe:) In between a lot of going out, shopping, driving around Camps Bay, watching the intense games (nothing can quite describe how crazy happy and festive everyone was in the bar I was at when BafanaBafana scored the first goal of the tournament!) and a little visit to Groote Schuur, I naturally made a lot of observations which can pretty much be summed up in this note...
You know South Africans have true festive SA Soccer SPIRIT [=)] …
-when you are woken up by Vuvuzelas blearing at 3am,4am, -the general 24hour demo’s of festive patriotism.
-when you are in the minority if: you are not wearing a BAFANA shirt, you do not have SA flag coverings for your car’s side mirrors, or you do not have an SA flag displayed somewhere on your car.
-when you walk the streets at midnight and hear people merrily singing the National Anthem
-when you enter a restaurant/bar which cannot seat the vast amounts of people watching the game on the flat-screen TV, and people watch up to 2 hours standing with their drinks/food.
-when companies actually pay R600 for each of their staff members to own and wear a Bafana shirt
-when you find the one LAST Bafana shirt after looking around every sports shop in Three huge CT malls
-when sales assistants become SUPER happy and friendly
-when you receive your left-over lunch out in a Soccerball-themed polystyrene container
You know the world is small/ the presence of co-incidences need be questioned...
-when you bump into fellow Rhodes friends walking around Cavendish
-when you bump into one of your life-long best friends from George in YDE in Canal Walk, unconscious of the fact they’d be in Cape Town (plus finding out they too, were in the YDE at Tiger Valley that same morning)
-when your Engineer brother Ben just happens to be around when a guy needs help jumpstarting his car- the guy’s name, too, being Ben.
You know society can be pretty ironic...
-when you observe seven traffic policemen help one traffic policemen spend fifteen minutes writing a parking fine for a man whose car is parked in a No-Parking zone on Main Rd, And consequently observe a traffic police van parking in the EXACT no-parking spot the fined-man’s car was in. The reason behind not being able to park in a particular place leading to the issuing of fines is clearly overlooked..
You know life is precious...
-when you meet someone at Groote Schuur hospital who’s a diabetic, asthmatic, cancer-patient minus a leg and breast, and is bubblier and more positive than the most privileged of the human race.. <3
great!!!!
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