Back to Joburg

This is a little late, but I have to say, I wasn't particularly motivated to write about my weekend in Joburg. I may have had a bit of a food comma going on as well because I think that is primarily what we did all weekend - eat. I had to be in the LRD Joburg office for some traiing on Monday January 23, so decided to make a weekend out of it. Ellie decided to join me. We arrived Saturday around noon and met Joseph at his house and then headed off to 44 Stanley for some lunch - yummy yummy. Then it was off to Neighbour Goods market, but we were too late and they wouldn't let us in, even though we could hear there was still lots going on inside. Fail. But we just so happened to run into Georgina, Sean and Dustin, fellow CBA interns, so had a good chat with them.

We stopped off at Rosebank mall. I was trying to get my bangs (fringe) cut. We popped into one salon that was open. I asked the girl how much it would be to cut my fringe. She said, oh we don't charge for that, but we don't really do it either. What? I didn't understand. Neither did Ellie or Joseph. So my bangs are now quite long and are generally being pinned back as they have still not been trimmed. We stopped for drinks.

Mine was the most impressive.

For dinner we went to D6, a Cape Malay restaurant, with a friend of Joseph's. The food was quite yummy. But really the dessert was what really won the prize. Best milk tart I have had. And I have sampled a fair number of milk tarts since arriving in South Africa. We then headed off to a club where we were entirely underdressed. Well, actually the problem may have been that we were overdressed in the sense of way too covered up. But the people watching may have been the best people watching I have ever experienced. Ellie told me I have to be careful; apparently my facial expressions show exactly what I am thinking.

Sunday we were treated to one of Joseph's amazing breakfasts and then headed to Arts on Main where we had a great chocolate cupcake and were enticed by some of the other wonderful food. I feel like Arts on Main is more about food than arts, but whatever.

Sunday evening we headed to Pretoria to see fellow CBA intern Sarah. She and her house mates have a wood fire pizza oven in their yard and had not tried it out yet. So, on Sunday evening we all went about making our perfect pizzas and I have to say, mine looked (and tasted) pretty perfect (this is a pre-cooked picture, don't have a post-cooked picture because I ate it).

It was a great evening with great company and really wonderful to get to catch up with Sarah.

Monday I joined Joseph at the LRC in Johannesburg where we attended the Candidate Attroney's training. George Bizoz (who you should learn a little more about here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bizos) chatted to us about the history of the organization and the fight to ensure that the indigent people of South Africa have somewhere to turn when in need of legal assistance. We took a field trip to the Constitutional Court and then had some skills training, which is always a good little brush up. Then it was off to the airport and back to Durban. See, most of the weekend was visiting and eating.