I am getting used now to the way of life and going to school in South Africa now. It is like I have been in Herschel all my life. Every single monday we have assembly where we have to be absolutely silent except for the moments when we have to sing the songs from the hymne booklets. last week on Wednesday we had our first prefects assembly which is a assembly which is held by students instead of teachers. It was quite a surprise when we walked into the theater seeing as there was music blasting out of the speakers. It reminded me a bit of the "Sint viering" because the everyone comes together and there is music as well as videos. You could really see that everyone loosened up a little.
On Thursday I woke up with pain in my foot which was probably caused by a bite of an animal. I could barely walk and had to wear flipflops to school. Considering that the teachers are very strict on the people wearing their uniform properly, I had to get permission to wear flipflops. Later that day, at consumers, I backed that lemon merengue pie which was absolutely DELICIOUS! There was nothing left by the end of the day. The next day would be my first trip, to Elandspad, but sadly I couldn't go because my foot was still very painful. I decided to stay home and walk as little as possible and luckily my foot was better by the next day.
Over the weekend I did the usual things, going to the beach and enjoying the sun. My host family took me to "The Nutcracker" on ice which was amazing. People were applauding throughout the play which was quite distracting and personally I believed that it was quite rude but that is probably the way South Africans attend to a performans.

This week I went on my first trip which was a tour through Cape Town on a hop-on-hop-off bus which was really nice. We were driven to Bisshops by a Herschel school bus. This was the first time I had seen Bisshops from close by and it was huge. Bisshops is much bigger thatn Herschel and it reminded me a bit of a Britisch boarding school. Bisshops has assembly every single day and that's why we could see the boys walking out the chapel even though it was not a Monday (assembly day at herschel). We left Bisshops again in a Bisshops school bus. On the tour we went to a market, gardens, a museum, the Castle of Good Hope and Camps Bay which is a beach at the west coast. At night, Lauren and I baked cupcakes. This is what I like most about herschel. Whenever there is a tough double period like biology, the girls take something to eat to class to share with everyone. So Lauren and I decided to bake the cupcakes for the next day. You always have to keep in mind that you have to bake enough for everyone seeing that most girls will gather around you and ask for food whenever they see something they like and cupcakes are definately one of their favourites.