center of it all

I have moved!  I am now staying at a hostel in the middle of it all.  Evidently the big parties tonight are on Florida Street, which is right where I am.  Should be interesting, since you all know how much I love new years!

I walked all around Durban yesterday.  One thing that I had not known is how big the Indian culture is here.  In some areas, I no longer felt like I was in South Africa!
Some random things that I thought were funny/interesting/noteworthy:
-Sign advertising an attorney.  His last name was Ramdass.  Sign read:  Ramdass Attorney.
-Sign advertising a plumber.  Sign read:  Rock Hard Plumber
-Kids in park playing soccer with an empty liter coke bottle.  Not even phased by the fact that it wasn't a ball.
-I went to go meet some of the other counselors from the camp.  They told me to meet them at "The Workshop," which I looked up (thank goodness for iTouch!) and realized was a mall.  I wandered for a bit and then found a cab.  He didn't know where the place was, so I gave him the address and we found it.  Later, I realized that I think that I told him that it was called "The Warehouse," which is why he had no idea what I was talking about.  Oops.  This reminded me of when I was a kid and I told people that I got my ears pierced in The Cottage (I meant, The Village in NYC!).  I made it there safely, and I was definitely the only white person in a many mile radius.  It was good to see some familar faces, and I think that I am going to meet up with them again today.
-Walked down to the beaches. It was super windy and gray outside.  The kind of day where in SD nobody would be at the beach.  It was SOO crowded.  Couldn't even see the sand sort of crowded.  There were places to go to find missing children, sort of crowded.

I bought a long sleeve shirt yesterday, cause i have nothing warm with me.  They forgot to take off the security tag, so i am going to walk back down there now to get it taken off...

Happy New Year!!!