Table Mountain

On Friday the 10^th we went on our hike up Table Mountain. We met again at Bishops where the school bus would again take us to our destination. This time we didn’t go with only one bus, we left with too. We drove all the way up to where the cable cart could take people up Table Mountain. This is where our journey began. We turned the music on, drank some water and prepared ourselves both physically and mentally on this hike. I personally thought the first half of the hike was rather exhausting and I kept saying to myself I never wanted to climb a mountain again but halfway I started enjoying myself. I even said to the rest of the group I thought it was fun and wanted to climb another mountain. We stopped a couple of times in between to wait for the rest, drink some water and enjoy the view. The view was amazing, we could see almost all of Cape town. Halfway, the Hike started to be more of a climb and the path got a bit rougher. The top was coming closer and closer and made us more excited resulting in walking faster. Once on top, I realized I climbed my first mountain ever in my life. I was such an amazing feeling to just stand on top of the mountain, look down and see what you just walked up. The view was incredible but it was rather windy on top so I put on my exchange hoody. On top of Table mountain everyone was taking pictures to remember this moment and show everyone the view and their major achievement. Luckily we didn’t have to walk down and we just took the cable cart down. It took us only 2 minutes to go down the way it took us 3 hours to go up. The cable cart was really nice because it was turning. Once down, the girls had to go in the one bus and the boys in the other bus so we could be driven to Herschel directly.

At night there was a valentine’s concert at Bishops where I went to with Lotte and the exchange students from Chili. We met with Loic and some other exchange students from Colombia and enjoyed ourselves for the night. There were acrobats and bands playing music. It was a lovely night even though it was raining and we met some nice people. Overall I had a great day, I hiked up a mountain and finished the day with a nice evening and a sleep over at Lotte’s house.