Helen and I got bored......

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Its been 5 months at University and I cannot explain to the extend that I have grown, learned and experienced this year. But now the holiday is upon us and the vibe is in the air. (Well, almost, i still have fucking 'costume theory' to write on the 31st! At 7pm! Could the drama dep be anymore cruel??!) But as I begin to pack up my room I find myself reflecting on my new life at Stellenbosch University.

Arriving here was exciting but also nerve racking. We were ruled by the HK members for 2 weeks and I felt that instead of coming to the freedom of varsity I was trapped under the system of 'Jool', a traditional, government school-ish initiation process that lasts 14 nights. Anyway I managed to come out of it alive. Having only to battle with tonsillitis and conjunctivitis - not the greatest 'itis' combo, and extreme lack of sleep.

After Jool came lectures. I remember being overly excited by all the knowledge we were given! All these interesting relevant facts contrasted hugely to the shitty stuff we were forced to learn at school. I GOT INTO THE SWING OF THINGS (oops pressed caps lock) slowly, I was able to get all my tasks done but found it hard to get rid of nerves and angst. I suppose it was the new environment and all my drama year being Afrikaans, but it took me about 2 months to finally relax and ENJOY University.

I now can honestly say that Uni is FANTASTIC. Especially Stellenbosch in general. Being away from home has forced me to grow the eff up! I now take responsibility for everything that I do. If I eat out of a bowl i must wash the bowl and put it back on the shelf. All that.

I have met some amazing people, I have learned to like Afrikaans people, I have found the perfect running route and I am able to drive to crazy Cape Town. I no longer feel as though I need to fit in. People here are whoever they want to be and there are no queen bees or intimidating men, really. If I see a jock who thinks he is 'all that' i simply ignore them. It works well.

And these exams have been absolutely wonderful. I have had so much time to study, read, watch movies, party and MAKE A BLOG! I am very excited to going home, a break is always needed but I will be keen to get back here. Get back to my new life and back to creating my future! :)

Man, Angus is awesome.

I mean, seriously. I've been bugging him to come out for ages, but I guess he's been too busy being totally awesome and having wild sex with lots of women. Finally, however, he must've had an opening in his schedule, because he decided to grace me with his presence.

He arrived fashionably late, and proceeded to charm everyone in sight. We all danced the night away, until Helen disappeared into a dark corner with some guy named Greg. I began to hit on a guy, but after I jokingly asked if he was gay, he replied, "Yes." I danced with him awkwardly for a while, but then decided that my time was better spent drinking diluted vodka. True story.

After I realised that I'd locked myself out of my room, we called the USBD to pick us up. I raced to Steers but, alas, they were closed. That made me sad.

The drug-sniffing dogs in the back of the security van were going crazy, so Angus decided to make friends with the guard in order to distract him, since he is so brilliant and always on the ball. *swoon* I was then driven to McDonald's (what a gentleman) where we watched some guys chug tomato sauce upside-down, which was also totally awesome. Helen and Greg met us there, and we made our way back to MetaNowhere (Angus's unmatched driving and parking skills left me in awe).

As we walked to the front door of the rez, we were attacked by ninjas with water balloons from Helm's Deep. Angus's superhuman reflexes caused him to emerge unscathed, but the experience left me wet. Also, I got water on me.

We raced past the security lady, who was so taken aback by this handsome example of manliness, that she kept on yelling, "Who is he?!" Angus kept on going, since he must be used to these kinds of comments.

He used his unmatched upper-body strength to transport an extra mattress to my room, even though I kept on insisting that it wasn't necessary, since mine was big enough for two. Him, being the gentlemen that he is made a comment about not taking advantage of my inebriated state, and then went to bed AND TOTALLY DIDN'T STEAL MY LAPTOP, NOR DID HE POST ANYTHING ON MY BLOG.

FACEBOOK

Why do we all have Facebook?

Lets think about this for a second. How many of us would give up our facebook life for R1000? I know I wouldn't. Face

book is so dam important. Its virtual reality at its best! In this virtual world we get to see photos and read comments that have been posted

by our MANY friends. But really what we are se

eing are idealized facebook beings. How many people are willing to be tagged in a photo of themselves in bad lighting when they have just woken up and they have a very large (and very real) pimple on their face? Not many. Even men are worried. I remember taking photos of my brother for a fb album and out of 20 he chose one to go on and then accused me of being a bad photographer. Its this 'image' everyone is after. This ideal image of themselves that they are excited about publishing to the world. And the STATUS'S, well there could be a whole new blogpost about them.

Ok so why do we do it? Is it because we can find out abo

ut what our friends are up to? Is it because we cannot be bothered to give them a call and ask how they are doing? Or is it simply because there is an active part in

our brain that says "GO ON FB- YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED!".. and when you log on only to realize that you have 1 notification and it is to a group invite to something like 'save the whales' you su

ddenly feel immensely disappointed, especially as you have just changed your status to something you thought was witty and nobody has 'Liked' it...yet. Bummer. Oh well give me +- 5 minutes and I'll refresh the page... Am I speaking from experience? You might wonder. Well yes I will admit. Facebook is an element in my life. One I would regard as rather big. Considering I am on it everyday. But I wonder, I wonder if facebook were to pull the plug, what would happen then?

Well my answer is: We'd probably all log onto mixt more often.

Anyway for the fun of it here are a few idealized images of some of my friends and one of me, Im being safe so as i dont get into trouble...

PS: These are all wonderful pictures and were perfect profile pictures at the time!!

A night on the town

Stellenbosch used to be a scary place to go out at night. Kira and I used to get all glamed up but when we got out we were shit scared and every night came to the conclusion that people here are LAME. And hooking up with guys is impossible. Back then times were hard. Like we had just arrived and everything seemed new and foreign. The clubs were too packed, the men were too jock and our res room beds usually called our name at about 11pm. Yes. I repeat. Sad.

The thing is we didn't want to just go out to hook up with guys but we wanted wanting, we wanted to be met, you know!

All of that now just seems like a distant memory... Nights out now are filled with 'mystical' events. Helen has introduced us to DUB and drum and bass music at this club called The Mystic Boer. The club is unlike the rest. There is a proper vibe. People are NORMAL. Ok they're weird and thats why I like it there. Normal to me is weird these days...

So a typical night now entails predrinking at res and then hopping from club to club but ALWAYS ending up at Mystics and the occasional (not regular!....) trip to mcdonalds.

Tonight Helen and I are going to set out on our journey at about 10.30pm we have a bottle of four cousins (which is 'cooldrink' to her) to keep hydrated. I am wearing all of Helen's clothes as usual and she is of course wearing mine. Our great plan of becoming famous for a good cause by spreading peace stickers during our night out was an 'almost fail' last Friday. We managed to give out about 20 stickers but then got carried away.. (to the sound of the music! duh). So tonight we may make more

of an effort to 'take over the world

1 peace sticker at a time'...but we'll see.

Die Andwoord! Afrikaans talent at its best! I am not being sarcastic!

INSPIRATIONS

TOP 10 inspirations!


1) Jaci and Gys de Villiers! For telling me I can act.

2) Sophia Baskin for being such a good actress herself (as well as all of our plays we would do for one another back in the day!)

3) Dad, he is such an eccentric he makes me feel sane! And gives me the courage to just FUCKING go crazy

4) Mom for being my best friend and for ALWAYS being there for me

5) Sham for giving me so much knowledge and acceptance

6) Caspar for being my first acting couch

7) The Grahamstown festival (it just gets me so excited!)

8) All the first year drama kids... you guys are fantastic

9) British films, e.g. The boat that rocked, my summer of love, Notting hill, etc. they are the BEST

10) Helen Mirren

The first post!

YAY-ness! How exciting, i have just spent a good couple of minutes sorting this blog thing out! How exciting and a great time waister!

So ya lets begin shall we! Ok so today I had an acting exam. Anel, Luzaan and myself performed our little scene which had a beginning, middle and end! It was titled The Unknown and we have been working on it for a while now. Anyway I am a fortune teller and I end up telling Luzaan that she is going to win the prize of her life and that Anel is adopted. String the two together and these complete strangers become mother and daughter! Total genius Id say! HA! Well we shall see what our marks were, but with that aside I had a lot of fun working with the two of them and I will miss our practices in Anel's flat!

It is almost the end of exam time here at Stellenbosch and I cannot tell you how opgewonde (excited!) i am to go home. Yes I know i will get a little bored after a while, but I really just want a change of scenery. This holiday (when i get bored) i am going to have to learn my lines for the play that i am in called Silent Night. I am a white sangoma herbalist. Ya. Oh and i believe that I AM THE GREEEATEST HEALER IN THE WORLD. Its going to be fun. And of course challenging. I seem always to land up with these larger than life characters (i almost wanna put FML at the end of that but i am resisting.) One day i might land up the role of the mom or 'normal suzy'. Cant wait.

Anyway time for me to find some inspiring pictures and quotes for this blog to look more aesthetically pleasing!
Tata!