Happy New Year!!! Well hope you´re all spending New Years Eve somewhere more exciting than me! I´m with my parents and I´m not going out! So yeah me for being boring and staying at home!  Ok I guess you want to know (or don´t you)how I spent the last 3 months?! Well first I went on the road trip in South Africa that I had planed with Babsi. And let me tell you it was AMAZING!!!! We had such a great time and oh my word South Africa is beautiful!!! I couldn´t stop smiling and yelling Oh my word its sooooooooo pretty!!!! Seriously if you ever get the chance do it!!!!! We started in Johannesburg early (like 5am!!!) on a thursday morning. We flew down to Cape town. Where we got at around 8am. We went to the rental car place and picked up our VW chico which we already booked in Pretoria. It was a really old but that was good since we could park it everywhere without worrying about any robberys! We drove in to cape town looking for a hostel cause we hadn´t booked one. We found one real quick and it was quite nice and cheap! I mean you get to stay there for 15€ in a double bedroom with en suite! And it was quite central! Then we started to explore Cape town and oh my word its adorable! We had breakfast at the Alfred and Victoria Waterfront! 
Then we walked around a little and bought some souveniers (gosh I bought tons, but really cute stuff and especially the pretty necklaces are sooooo inexpensive) then we took the car up to tabe mountain or as far up as you can get with the car. Than we took the cable car up and spent a couple of ours walking around and it was just breath-taking!!! 
After that we went out for dinner!!! The food in the Cape was sooo delicous! If you can you should order sea food and that comes from me someone who doesn´t like it but there it was devine! The next day we drove down to the Cape of Good Hope. It took us quite a while to get there because we discovered so many beautiful places along the road that we just had to stop and explore. First we stopped at Camps Bay (one of the most famous beaches around cape town because from there you can see the twelve apostels (mountains) ) to have a nice breakfast! 
After that we went to the botanical gardens in Kirstenbosch where you can see the back of table mountain!But the whole drive down your driving along the ocean it was breath taking!!! 
Then we stopped at a cliff a long the road cause I saw WHALES jumping in the ocean. It was incredible. Have you ever heard them sing??? I had goosebumps cause it was so amazing to stand there and watch all these whales jumping in and out the ocean and making these beautiful noises!!! We got to Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope quite late cause first we saw Boulders Beach where the only wild pinguins of SA live. So we had to checked that out after seeing that road sign!! 
Then at around 3pm we finally made it to Cape Point!I think the pictures speak for themself! 
After spending another 3 hours exploring the area we drove back and went to Stellenbosch! Which is quite famous all around the world for its wine. The next day we went on a wine tasting tour which took the whole day and was a lot of fun. But after tasting 20!!! different wines I was getting tipsy! So we didn´t do anything else that night!  The next day we drove a long the coast to Hermanus. Its a small down which is famous for the whales. Cause each year they get their babies there. Well we weren´t lucky cause the weather was really bad, it was raining cats and dogs and really windy! But we got to see at least one whale!!!! (I still can´t believe that I saw so many this summer) After a huge breakfast we went to Cape L´Agulhas which is Africas southern most point!!!! 
It´s also the point where the Atlantic and Indian Ocean meet!!! We didn´t spend to much time there a) since there wasn´t much else to do and b) cause we still had a long drive a head of us to Wilderness. Yep thats the place where I stayed a few weeks earlier for my beach vacation and since the lady who owned the lodge where I stayed was so nice she said we should stay there again. Which we did and I also saw Jacques again (her son who drove us around the first time I was there). It was soooooo nice to see them again. I cried really badly when we left the next morning. Cause she said such nice things to me and was just so lovely that I couldn´t help it! The next day we went to Knysna and Plettenberg Bay since I wanted to show Babsi all these beautiful places that I got to see a few weeks earlier. And she loved it as much as I did! But this time we finally went on that whale watching boat tour. And I have to say the best 50€ I ever spent in my whole live! We saw a lot of whales and dolphins and they came really close to our boat!!!! 
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! The next two days we spent driving back up north to Pretoria. And it was a lot of fun and we saw quite a lot even snow!!!! Then I had only 3 days left before I had to go back home. I was really sad but my last days were filled with great activities. And we went to see the Black Eyed Peas perform in Johannesburg!!!!!!!!!!! It was awesome!!! I danced sooooooo much and they were amazing!!!!! Best time ever!!!! Saying goodbye was really tough!!! We all cried soooo much and the kept asking me to come back!!!! My flight back was terrible since I wasn´t even close to a window and that kind of creeps me out sitting in th e middle!But I made it back to HD and started my 4th semester of univesity a day later! Well university still isn´t my favorite thing in the world but my internship which we are doing every wednesday in a 2nd grade is sooooooooooo much fun. And both the teacher and the supervisor from university told me that I´m doing a great job teaching and that it really is the right job for me!!! =) Which made me really happy!!! I went back to Weimar to see my parents and my grandma two weeks after I got back from SA. Cause we had a high school reunion that weekend. It was so great to see everyone again. And I was happy to show my grandma the pictures and calenders I got her at Table Mountain cause she said her whole life she wanted to see table mountain and she was glad that I got to see it!!! A month later my mom called me at 5 am and told me that my grandma had passed away!!! =( I was really sad and I still miss her a lot! The weeks that followed are a blur. I cried a lot cause I grew up with her cause she lived in the same house with us!!!I stayed with my parents for 2 weeks cause I couldn´t go to university! It is still difficult to be at home and not have her around cause I think that she will come and ask me what I want for lunch any minute! Christmas was tough too! But we made it and still tried to have a good time. And I know that wherever she is now she is fine! After christmas we wents skiing for the first time in my life! And I really enjoyed it and I didn´t break any bones =) 
But anyways the best for last!!! I´m going back to my family in Pretoria!!! They asked me if I want to come again in my semester break and of course I said yes. But I will take a semester off and stay for 6 months cause Babsi is still there and I´m sure we will have a great time together!!!!and I still want to see sooooo much more in Africa!!!! So I will leave in march and come back in september!!!! I´m soooooooo excited!!!!!! Hugs and Kisses and thanks for being such great friends!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | 
