Taylor's enjoying it all

It's great to finally have a routine here because it makes cape town seem even more like home. My internship is at Sarah Fox Children's Hospital and my obsession with kids makes it easy to love what i do. Basically i feed, change and give the kids their medicine. I also get to play with them outside the majority of the day and who would complain about that? The babies are happy most of the time and it makes it easy to be in a good mood all day. I plan to start researching their conditions to learn as much as possible and maybe find other ways to help out around the hospital! Classes at the university are also pretty awesome which is weird because most classes are insanely boring. Vernon's class was so much fun especially learning basic phrases in Afrikaans. Vincent taught us basically 300 years of history in one class which was super informative and really investing because its an entire new history unrelated to America which is what i am used to learning about. I look forward to what i will learn in these classes in the future. 

My birthday was this past weekend!! On Friday we hiked lion's head which was absolutely unreal. The hike was definitely a struggle but the views on top were totally worth it. Siting on top of the mountain and getting a 360 view of cape town which included the city, the ocean and table mountain was spectacular and the pictures really do not do it justice. we ended up hiking down at sunset and got to see the sun go down on the water which was beautiful. i am so excited to hike new trails and mountains and i definitely want to do lion's head again soon! Then on Sunday we went to go see FreshlyGround at Kirstenbosch Gardens. aside from the amazing scenery that the garden has to offer, the music was amazing and I definitely would be interested in seeing the band again or different artists at the same venue. It really was a birthday weekend that I'll never forget!!!

 

Caitlin, Becca, Taylor L, John, Jillian, Julia, Taylor P on Lion's Head