First post

Hi everybody!

Here my first post on my brand new blog! (Monday 9/2/2009)

I'm writing in English so my family in Cyprus can also attend this blog and see what I'm doing here.

Last week on Tuesday we arrived in South Africa. Fortunately we could leave for South Africa. The snow problem in Heathrow London on Monday only caused a delay of 1 hour. British Airways had rebooked our flights with Lufthansa via Frankfurt so they solved our problem really good!

When Haike and me arrived in Pretoria the next day we had 30 degrees and the sun was shining (next day we had rain, thunder and lightning though...).

We have a really nice room in a seperate house and like 4 keys to get inside the house! First we have to open a fence, then another fence before the front door, then the front door itself and then the door of our room.

Pictures will follow later...

On Wednesday we attended our first classes and it's also the only day in the week we have classes (the rest of the week we have group work though). We attended Landscape Architecture, but actually the classes are all crossing each other. The class was about town planning and it was really interesting!

Unfortunately then we didn't meet Amira Osman yet, because she was on Sabbattical leave.

In the weekend we already visited Johannesburg with some other international students (most international students here are from the Netherlands, some from Germany and we're about the only ones from Belgium).

Jo'burg was interesting to see, but it's really a dangerous city. Luckily we could arranged a guided tour to the most important places there so we were safe. The first day (Saturday) we visited the Apartheid Museum which was really interesting, but also really tiring (too much information in one time).

The museum building was really nice as you can see on the second picture!
In the evening of course we went to explore the night life of Johannesburg (again accompanied by someone from Jo'burg who knew where to go and where not!
The next day in the morning we did a guided tour around the city (by car). We visited the Top of Africa (the tallest building in Africa and it's 'only' 228m), here a view over Johannesburg:

Afterwards we visited Constitutional Hill (the new court house of Jo'burg), which was built in a wonderful architecture:

Today we finally met Amira Osman and she's such a nice lady, she gave us a real warm welcome. Normally tomorrow we will arrange with her the classes we wish to attend so we can finally complete our registration and recieve our student cards!

Well, that's about it for now!

I hope you'll hear again soon from me!

Take care you all!