I just took my first final and I think it went pretty well...it has been absolutely beautiful weather for the last week and I just counted and I only have nine days left in Cape Town if you take out the Lesotho trip, so the first priority has definitely been doing lots of things around the city. One day we drove around the peninsula, which I hadn't done since our first week here. We saw the nicest little quiet beach with a couple houses and it looked like you had to take a zip line down to the houses. We also climbed table mountain one last time (sniffle), and went cage diving with great white sharks! Well, at least I did in theory. We had to drive two hours to get to the place where the boat left at 5:30 in the morning. Then we made the huge mistake of eating the giant buffet breakfast before getting on the boat...which was the roughest boat ride of my life. We ended up anchored down in huge waves for four hours and I'm pretty sure that every non-crew member of the boat got sick except Zoe. We saw a lot of sharks very VERY close up (think Jaws "we're gonna need a bigger boat") but when it come time to get in the cage, I could not even think about moving I felt so awful. The crew kept saying that you feel sicker in the water than on the water and I didn't know if that was possible but that idea was not appealing. I know it sounds like a bad excuse for being scared, but I honestly didn't think it was that scary to get in the cage and I don't think anyone else really did either. It was more just amazing to see them up close and you could tell that they really weren't interested in the cage. So I'm disappointed looking back on it that I didn't get to dive, but that's easier to think now that my stomach has recovered. I think it was worth it to be so sick to get to see the sharks so close, but that's also easier to think with two feet on immobile dry land.

Anyways, in between the two more finals I'm going to cram lots more in and spend a lot of time with the roommates. It's going to be very strange not to see them everyday, cause this has really become a second home and family...even though I miss home. We've been trying not to talk about leaving, but I think it's starting to become unavoidable. Since I'm leaving on the 6th for Lesotho and Liv and Jan will be gone before I get back, we only have a couple more days to all braai and be together. It's going to be very hard to say goodbye!