This past week has flown by! It's amazing how fast time goes once the jet lag is over! We had a jam packed week filled with lots of speakers, tours, and adventures.

Monday we got a private tour of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Stadium in Cape Town. It was so cool to see how such a huge event is put on in a gorgeous stadium like that. We met with the Director Of Communication who planned most of the world cup. He talked a lot about planning the event, which is my major so it was really helpful information. The stadium held 68,000 people during the world cup and it cost 4.3 billion South African rand to construct. The movie Safe House was also filmed here so we got to see where everything was filmed! The rest of the day was spent at the beautiful V & A waterfront where we got some shopping done and I experienced South African McDonalds (way cheaper and way cleaner, tastes the exact same). Then we ventured to the Green Market Square which is basically like a giant flea market, where I got to practice my bartering skills (I'm getting pretty good!) and I got some great African Souvenirs to bring home.

The middle of the week we toured a couple of universities in Cape Town. The University of Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. We got to talk to a man who is planning on crossing all 7 continents soley on man power. This means no cars, planes, boats, or trains he will be hiking, biking, and swimming across the world. Pretty cool but personally I think he's crazy. Tuesday night we went to a rugby game inside the World Cup Stadium which was such a fun experience. It was South Africa versus England and South Africa won! We had great seats and got to enjoy some authentic African burgers and beers during the game. A great South African experience!

Since it was so gorgeous out on Wednesday we got to take a cable car ride up to Table Mountain, which in 2010 was named one of the seven wonders of nature in the world. I can see why, it was such a beautiful sight at the top. We explored the top of the mountain for a couple hours and got to appriciate Cape Town's beautiful nature. I could have stayed up there all day, we had so much fun climbing all the rocks over looking all of Cape Town and taking pictures.

Later in the week we got to learn about the culture at the South African museum. It was pretty interesting and I learned all the sharks in the waters in South Africa. How can you not be afraid of this!?!

After the museum we drove to Rocklands Camp where we will be staying all of next week. We'll be running a leadership camp to 6th graders from a nearby school for the week so we took a tour of the place today. It is a beautiful camp and I am so excited for next week to meet these kids!