Founders day and the weekend

Hello everyone!

On Friday we had no lessons because it was Founders day. We finished school at 12.45 which was really nice. We first had a very long assembly at the theatre. A lady from England flew to Cape Town to visit our school. This was because she is related to William and John Herschel, the famous astronomers. She told us all about the Herschel family, I thought that it was very interesting. Also because we did a chapter on astronomy in Understanding Science so I knew some things about William and John's discoveries. After her story and slide show, a guy called Henny performed a satirical and very funny show. Later, after some refreshments, the whole school walked to the Church for a 'birthday' ceremony. Quite a lot of old Herschelians were present in the Church to celebrate the existence with us. We singed hymns, listened to biblical stories and prayed. After the church ceremony we went back to school and then it was time for the grade 8Th's welcoming. All the other girls formed an arch and the grade 8Th's had to run under it the whole way. Then our school day was over and we could go home and enjoy our lovely Friday afternoon.
In the evening Lily, Cleo and I went to a birthday of a friend down the road. It was really nice and we saw a lot of Cleo's friends which I knew from other parties.

On Saturday Lily and I had to wake up quite early (for little old me it was, as I LOVE to lie-in), at 9.00 to watch Thomas' cricket match against Saks. We watched the game for a couple of hours and then got quite hungry, so we decided to go get some food from Spur, a well known steakhouse. Eddie, the driver was also at the cricket and he was so sweet to drive us to Spur. We ate there, and once our tummies were full we decided to walk back to the cricket. As we arrived at the entrance fence we realised that it only opens when you drive towards it from the other side. We had a problem, so we had the choice of: walking for 10 minutes to get to the other entrance, or...climb over the fence. That's exactly what we did, scratched shins included ha ha.

On Sunday, the plan was to go up Table Mountain, so we arrived there with the whole family(without Tom though) but then we got a disappointing message that we're not able to go up because of the strong wind. Thankfully, our day wasn't entirely ruined as we went for a drink in Camps Bay and had a divine(!) lunch at the Radisson hotel.

We have two weeks left unfortunately:(...

Love,

SA-lover, San