End of World Cup

The World Cup is now over and I will just post a few more picture of that before the everyday life starts again.
This is from the train station in Cape Town (CT). The city was full of signs to the stadium, the fan fest area and to the Waterfront. It was always great walking around and see and feel the WC frenzy.

I was very lucky and was offered a ticket to the Quarter final game between Brazil and Nederland in Port Elizabeth (PE). PE is an industry city in the Eastern Cape, around 750 km from CT. We left at night and drove there. We arrived around 12 and the weather was perfect, I was sweating and actually missed the colder CT winter. We walked a little on the beach before we went to the stadium. It was amazing, people was so happy, excited and ready for the game. It was a full party outside for hours in the sun and Brazilians and Dutch people where mingling like friends.
I went with a dutch, a brazilian and a german, and me, a norwegian. The dutch girl was wearing a flag as a dress (you see her to the left in the picture) and everyone wanted a picture of her. She was even interviewed by spanish and dutch television and was a big part of the dutch news after the game.

They had a stage with people dancing with a WC trophy that I got a hand on. I was 'neutral' (Brazilian) so I used my Norway jersey. Such a great feeling lifting the trophy and imagine that Norway be playing (or me!!!!).

I found another trophy inside the stadium and had 45000 people celebrating while I lifted it!

Now we are back in CT and at the Waterfront they had several of these status.

Rainbow above CT.

Something build of the box you but bottles in.

This is a dassie, an animal that you find at the Table Mountain and other places. I was about feeding it when it bit me and I took some shots the next day to be on the safe side. I have so far not heard of anyone else being bitten by a dassie, so I felt kind of stupid.


School is about starting and mu courses this semester will be Global Political Economy and Conflict in Africa. I will also do International Law, but that is not obligatory. I am still contemplating what to do with my french. I can sign up for a full program or I can continue doing some evening classes. I still have a week before I need to make a decision, but I am tempted to do the full thing, I will go and talk to them again.

This is also my last day in my first house. I will move to another house a little closer to the city. Also a very nice house with a big garden and lower rent. I am excited about it but I will miss living with some of my previous house mates.