Fun Night

Today all that I did ALL day from 9am to 8pm was lie in bed and read my book. It was the hottest day thus far and it was scorching. You couldn’t even make a small movement without sweating and feeling dizzy because of how intense the heat was. Nobody in my house did anything today; they all lied in bed the entire day to stay cool as well! It was pretty miserable. And because it was a holiday, Miles’ family had their extended family over and didn’t want him to go anywhere, so we couldn’t go to the beach or the city centre, and the beach sounded like the best place on earth to be today. But, at around 8pm, Miles called me and said that he was so bored from being stuck in the house all day and wanted to do something tonight. So we made plans to head to the casino entertainment building to eat and get out for a while. Again, because of the holidays, police created blockades at all of the roads before the freeways leaving the city centre, and Miles’ host mom didn’t want them to harass him about his American license driving her car, so we decided to take a taxi instead. Miles invited both of his brothers to come, as well as two of their cousins that were visiting for the day, and I brought Minenhle, or mini, along with me. The taxi’s here are so different! Almost all of them are VW buses that blast techno music out of the all-rolled-down windows. And the taxi’s all have different names (I’m assuming the driver can pick his own ‘company’ name) that are posted on the top back of the bus in sparkly letters, and most of the names are hilarious! Like, Ghetto Boyz, Disco Biscuit, Boyz House, Pretty Pride, and Drive or Die. So, of course our taxi had to be just the same. It was the funniest thing to me to be arriving in such a vehicle, but it was transportation nonetheless. We went to this café called the News Café, and it was very nice. The odd thing about establishments here is that they seem to try to ‘mix’ venues and it just turns out weird! For example, they have this very common chain restaurant called Wimpy’s, and it’s a mix of Red Robin’s and McDonalds, it’s so strange! And, this café was an odd mix as well, of a club, a bar, and a café all in one. But, we ended up having fun. Miles, his brother “Boom Boom” and I were the only ones that came here (age restricted), while the other four went off to play in the arcade and get food of their own. It was very enjoyable to be out and doing something that feels more familiar to home; we both liked and needed that. We aren’t sure if anything will be open tomorrow, because it’s a Sunday and a holiday weekend, but we might try to get to the Gateway Mall, a huge mall downtown, just to get out and to also hopefully get to an internet café. Hopefully they are open! If not, then it might be another uneventful day, minus going out at night.