The Work Begins

Monday January 4th began early for Tim, the day the Stanford students officially began their quarter at the brand new Bing Stanford Overseas Centre in Cape Town. Introductions and orientation and decisions on which courses to take was the flavour of the day. (Please note spelling - we're in Cape Town, communicating in the local brogue.)

All the faculty, including those from Cape Town University, came to an extremely yummy lunch on Monday, catered for by Lindi Kriel, David's wife. Each lecturer gave a brief course outline, at the end of which Tim and I wanted to sign up for all.

I posted some photos to a web album so please check it out and meet the students and lecturers yourself.

The University of Cape Town's Summer School is about to start with some courses I'd love to do. Added to all the Stanford classes I also want to take, this will not be a summer holiday!

Cape Town is windy this week with Tuesday the hottest day of the year (all 5 days!) It was only 36 deg Centigrade here in Newlands, but in other parts of Cape Town it got to well over 30 C! I wallowed in our teeny pool for the first time since we moved in.

Tim and I have been to two music evenings at a small venue/cafe not too far away from where we live. While it's been nice to hear live music in a similar environment as the Station House, the quality is just not the same as "Paul Knight and his friends"! We're very jealous of the line-up at the Station House this weekend. Laurie Lewis, Tom Rozum and Nina Gerber - our very best favourites!

I've just finished reading Zeitoun - Dave Eggers gripping story about what really happened in New Orleans during Katrina. We're also reading South African literature (for one of the Stanford courses) starting with Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.