What We Learned in Cape Town

Good news: We made it to Cape Town.  Bad news: We've been having too much fun to post.  But don't worry-- content is coming.  Until then, here are 10 things we learned this week.

1. Banana and peanut butter tastes delicious anywhere and is a perfectly suitable dinner option.
2. South Africa has eleven official languages (including English, thank heaven).  
3. Internet is just as bad as they warned us it would be...and we're still in a major city.
4. South African penguins on Boulders Beach came from only two breeding pairs in 1982 and the population has grown to about 3,000.  They got busy!
5. People from Madagascar and their language are called Malagasy.
6. Don't be scared.  Be careful.
7. Apartheid: an Afrikaans word meaning "the state of being apart" (literally "apart-hood") was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP), the governing party from 1948 to 1994.  This segregation categorizes people as white, black, and colored and there is an unlimited combination of terribleness between and within all three.
8. South African history shows great dedication to freedom of religion and has a wide diversity of thriving religions as a result.
9. The currency in SA is the Ran but everyone calls them "bucks."
10. We're tougher than we thought.

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