25. Triangular, Surfing, Herschel, and First Goodbyes

On Wednesday, we had an adapted school schedule. This was because in the afternoon we went to SACS (South African College Schools) for an interscholar athletics event called Triangular. Triangular is between three schools from the Southern Suburbs: Bishops, Rondebosch, and SACS. It was fun to cheer for Bishops and sing along in all the pro-Bishops and anti-SACS/Rondebosch songs. One of them was:

Sacsy, hey Sacsy,

your school's a bloody riot!

Sacsy, hey Sacsy,

you might as well be quiet!

Shhhhhh

Triangular was fun, but it only ended after five, so it got quite boring. Fortunately we managed to leave earlier.

On Thursday, we (Exchange boys: Matias, Domas, and me) were driven to Muizenberg Beach to surf. First, we picked up the exchange girls at Herschel. Once we arrived in Muizenberg, we were dropped off at the Surf Shack. There, we got our wetsuits and boards. After a short shark instruction (black flag: no sharks, white flag: sharks!), we finally got to go into the water. As the weather wasn't that good, we were all afraid of freezing to death, but luckily it wasn't that cold at all! The surfing was really cool! Unfortunately, we haven't received our surfing pics yet from the Surf Shack. 

After the surfing, we were all very hungry. So we went to Knead Backery and I had white hot chocolate (which was delicious), a chicken pie, and a huge chocolate cookie. :) Then, we were picked up by the Bishops' driver and were driven back to Bishops. Once back, I got a haircut (Bishops style) and we chilled at Domas' house.

On Friday, we went to Herschel for a day. The Herschel girls had already visited Bishops earlier that week. Because of the bad weather, we got stuck in horrible weather on our way to Herschel. Once I finally arrived, I was guided into the grade 10's Eucharist in the Herschel Chapel. The service took very long and every time the girls started singing their hymns, I was surprised by the high pitch, as at Bishops, the pitch was very low.

My first period was Afrikaans. All the girls seemed to be surprised by the fact that I could speak and understand Afrikaans. After Afrikaans, I had Maths. The girls had to prepare for a test so Domas and I spent our time drawing random stuff and playing tic-tac-toe. I spent the next to ours in the library with the exchange girls, where we wrote on each other's SA flags. Then it was lunch break. We went to Herschel's tuck shop, which is quite disappointing if you compare it to Bishops' tuck shop. After break, I had History. During the History lesson, we watched a video about Michelangelo. The nicest thing of this lesson though, is that the girls were handing out brownies. Apparently, they have a "bakers" system at Herschel, meaning that they have a schedule in which girls have to bake treats for during the lessons. Wouldn't it be nice if we had such a system at the Rijnlands as well! :) Then, I had science, this was quite interesting.

On Friday night, there was a nice chill session with a couple of oaks*. 
*Oaks = South African slang for guys/boys/lads

On Saturday night, there was a goodbye party for Bella and Ana. It was quite sad saying goodbye and realizing that we ourselves only had a couple of days in SA left... :'(

Triangular

Triangular

Surfing at Muizenberg Beach

Herschel Girls' School

Herschel

Some of the exchange girls in the Herschel library