So I'm packed (Me, being me, I've been packed for the last few days...) and raring to go. It was so lovely to catch up with good friends last night and I'm a little sad that just when everyone I love returns to London I must go, but that's just life I guess! Thanks for being the best friends a girl could have.
I have my address in South Africa. I'm living with a retired bank clerk called Eleanor (good sign that we have the same name) in Heathfield. This I am told is a typical Cape Malay coloured area, vibrant and dynamic. The office will probably be in the university district and then clinics and field work can be anywhere in the city!
So, in bocca al leone...Well, one of my I-talian friends will probably need to correct me here but In Bocca al Lupo is I think how you say Good Luck in Italian. I've always liked this phrase so much more than boring old Bon Voyage. I'm been doing some extensive research on the entomology of this phrase (a few minutes on Google) and apparently it has something to do with the Founding of Rome myth of Romulus and Remus being carried in the mouth of a wolf and the wolf then throwing them out of her mouth to found Rome. So, I feel so excited I've hardly slept for the last few night and nervous too so that I've decided I need to wish myself Good Luck. Lions or perhaps Leopardo seemed more appropriate for Africa!
Friday, 20 August 2010
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Piri Piri Fried Satire
So for all you readers out there who, like me, were labouring under the misapprehension that Nandos is Portuguese I have something to tell you: Its actually a South African company! But Piri Piri is still a Portuguese word for chili apparently. Its all to do with those fun colonial times I've been reading up about. Yes, we Brits may have nicked Ketchup from Hong Kong and curry from India but the Portuguese left Mozambique in the mid-C20th with Piri Piri chicken.
While all appearances may be to the contrary, this blog is not the mere ramblings of a hungry madwoman. There is actually a point if you'll bear with me. After popping to Tottenham Court Rd to order some new lenses - all this legal studying is making me even more blind - I decided to pay a visit to my darling former chaplain, Fr PJ at the Catholic Chaplaincy. Fr PJ is South African and one of my inspirations for wanting to visit the country. Aside from making him very jealous of my plans to visit his homeland, we had a heated discussion about South African politics. I say heated because it mainly consisted of him showing me Nandos adverts which have a political spice. Here are my favourite courtesy of You Tube:
On the 1 party state: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONTqdp5scmg
On Jacob Zuma's wives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38xBihimIB4&feature=related
This one was banned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fELTOduqwqI&feature=related
I can't imagine Pizza Express doing anything like this over here, but they sure could have spiced up the last election.
While all appearances may be to the contrary, this blog is not the mere ramblings of a hungry madwoman. There is actually a point if you'll bear with me. After popping to Tottenham Court Rd to order some new lenses - all this legal studying is making me even more blind - I decided to pay a visit to my darling former chaplain, Fr PJ at the Catholic Chaplaincy. Fr PJ is South African and one of my inspirations for wanting to visit the country. Aside from making him very jealous of my plans to visit his homeland, we had a heated discussion about South African politics. I say heated because it mainly consisted of him showing me Nandos adverts which have a political spice. Here are my favourite courtesy of You Tube:
On the 1 party state: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONTqdp5scmg
On Jacob Zuma's wives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38xBihimIB4&feature=related
This one was banned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fELTOduqwqI&feature=related
I can't imagine Pizza Express doing anything like this over here, but they sure could have spiced up the last election.
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