hey guys, it's my last night in the cape... last bit of free internet access too... so I'll post again if/when I 1)get back in atl.  , 2)find a friend who got DSL since the last time I saw him , or 3) I happen to find some cash on the floor while strolling past an internet cafe... slightly unlikely... but anywhoo..

ahh.. so I was at the beach... nothing much to say really... given it's winter and more importantly that we only stayed for 2 days, I didn't do much... but we were blessed with generally good weather again. And the boks (the SA Springbok Rugby team) beat the shit outta the scots yesterday, so yay there, and Korea tied the game with france!!! whoohoo Korea!!!  [picture every (south) korean who could afford it filling up a fourth of the staduim in Germany and jumping up and down(rather nicely synchronized) to the beat of their own chanting and you get an idea of what the crowd was like... and that even before the koreans scored the tying goal...]. 

Tomorrow afternoon (early morning atl time) I get on a plane and fly north for two hours, drive a few more hours on the highway and I'm back where I started nearly 16 yrs ago... what a ride it's been so far. In significant part because of you guys too, so thanks. I get all deep here because it just hit me this is most likely the last time I'll access the internet (much less post on here) as a 15 yr old... and there's supposedly something different about 16. (I say "most likely" because I'm not willing to completely throw out the money/internet cafe scenario.) As I have many times before, I quote the great Ferris Bueler... "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." So once again, i have stopped and observed. Life is still good, so let's all stay friends and make it better.

yay, dontcha just feel all warm inside now?

-GIO

Stephan, hehehHElls yeah. Only problem is they're all like... between 20 and 25... buut i guess that's something that could be worked around depending on the situation. But yeah man, all of a sudden all doubts that I had about coming here for college just.. faade away...

Hadely, when I go back north to pretoria, we're going to my mom's uncle's farm... he's got giraffes.

Sadly, there's a weather update here... (btw, as I hear there is for you guys also... helooo hurricane season '06)... anyways, for the past week it has been amaaaaazing. Sunny... windstill.... only the slightest clouds... fairly chilly nights but the days made up for it. but NOW... yesterday, it got all rainy and extrEMEly windy. i mean i look outside and the rain is falling at a 30 degree angle with the ground. But meh, i stayed home, read some popular mechanics i found under the TV... watched oprah and dr. phill... as the rest of what was on tv was mostly in wierd african languages... Oh, btw this was at the flat my sister is staying in, not the super lux home of my uncle.. which im back in now.

welp, thats it for now. bye!

-GIO