Day 50

26 February 2008

Arrived right on time at SA airport. I was really relieved to finally get off the plane.

Took a bit of a while to get my luggage. It seemed like it was the last one to be taken off the plane. I was a bit worried about customs. I brought a lot of things from Bern but it didn’t exceed R3000. Ivan wanted to go through the red side because he thought we had to declare the chocolates we brought. Luckily we didn’t.

After finally getting out of the airport and in the car on the way home, I was hoping for a nice quick trip home. Not a chance. There was an accident on Bosmansdam Road and we spent an hour in traffic. It took us about 2 hours to get from the airport to home. When we FINALLY got home I was looking forward to just relaxing for a while. But of course when I got home and unpacked some stuff I couldn’t get to sleep. So I spent some time finding all my presents from Bern.

At about 11:00 am we went to visit my sister and her new baby. I was really excited to finally be able to meet my niece for the first time. It was everything and more than what I was hoping it would be. She was cuter and more beautiful than the pics that my sister sent me.

Day 49

25 February 2008

Man the flight was looooooong. Even though it was at night from 5pm to 5 am the next morning, I found it really hard to sleep for more than an hour. And even then I only slept for about 3 hours in total.

The flight from Zurich to Frankfurt was nice and short. About 45 minutes. The Frankfurt airport is huge. It’s like a shopping mall.  It makes our airport look like a 7/11.

The food on the plane isn’t as bad as people say it is. Or maybe my taste in food just isn’t all that refined.

On the flight to Bern I did get a little airsick. But only at the end of the flight because I took airsick tablets and they wore off about 2 or 3 hours before the end of the flight. But on the way back from Bern I didn’t get airsick at all. I did take the tablets again just to be sure though.

Again, man it was a long flight. I would never like to do that again. 12 hours. But I suppose it’s all a learning experience.

Day 48

24 February 2008

Today was really warm. I could actually go outside without wearing my thermal long johns and a jacket. The whole day was like that.

Most of the day was spent cleaning the apartment and packing. Trying to figure out if I am over the weight limit or not. After packing everything in, the bag weighs 18,5 kg. So even if the scale is a little off, I’m hoping that it isn’t off by too much.

Starting to get really excited about getting home. I just wish it didn’t take a whole day to get back.

Day 47

23 February 2008

Gonna do some final shopping today. I’m not really looking for anything specific, just anything that catches my eye really.

I did a dry run of packing all my stuff to see how much it weighed. And after getting mostly everything in it only weighs 16 kg. That can’t be right, can it? So I tried weighing myself and then again while holding my bag and it still says that it weighs 16kg. I should only have about 2 kg of weight to work with, according to how much it weighed when I came here, so I don’t know whats going on.

Day 46

22 February 2008

Sorry Dad, I leave on the Monday and arrive in Cape Town on Tuesday 5:45 am. And I think the flight number is SA263 from Frankfurt. And I think it’s International Arrivals because we fly directly from Frankfurt to Cape Town.

Didn’t do much today. Hung around the apartment till lunch then we went to my bosses place. We went to a place called Egger. It’s a brewery. They brew beer all week and then sell it straight from the brewery. I tried some. It’s actually quite nice.

After that we went back to my bosses place for supper. A braai. That was quite nice too.

At about 20:30 we went to a place called  Media Mart. Which is right across from the biggest single shop I have ever seen. It was an IKEA shop too. It was 3 stories high. We didn’t go in because we went to Media Mart and everything closes at 21:00.

Media Mart is so cool. They have so much cool stuff. All kinds of gadgets and electronics and games and computer stuff and TV’s and Movies. There was this one Samsung TV that was so cool. It was huge. And the picture was amazing.

Another thing that I’ve noticed is how big a variety all the shops have. And I mean ALL the shops. From the giant department stores to the tiniest Kiosk. All of them have a huge variety of what they sell. Coffee machines seem to be quite a prominent product here.

So Dad remember, I leave on Monday and arrive on Tuesday 26 February 5:45 am. I forgot that it’s a 12 hour flight and that we only arrive the next day.