This is what I prepared for myself the other day - I just made spaghetti, fried chicken breast, added green pepper and something that looks like parsely, but begins with a 'D'. Oh and soya sauce - I prefer that to Worcester sauce. I just came from taking my mother to the shops at N1 City and I was hungry. I thought it would be quick to get myself McDonald's, but that's not very healthy. So I decided to cook something. I never do this. I was surprised that it turned out to be so delicious and good, because I didn't follow any recipe. I just mixed some things. Anyway, this is what I made the afternoon before I went to my university's 'vensters' performances. 'Vensters' is part of my university's RAG (Remember and Give) which is for charity. The first years perform in 'vensters' (luckily I didn't have to when I was first year - I decided on helping to build the float for my university house). The performances wasn't as good as the other years, even 'The Medics' (Stellenbosch's Tygerberg Campus - Medical Students), who win every year, based their performance on 'The Wizard of Oz'; but it wasn't an exciting performance, but it still was one of the best - they'll probably win again this year. All the 'plays' have to speak about certain topics; like studying, drinking (alcohol abuse), the charities and things like that. They get judged on that.

But for most students RAG is all about partying and getting drunk. I watched a local programme called 'Gons' (it's an Afrikaans programme) and they talked about the real reason behind RAG (the charities). They kept asking every guest, 'hoeveel meisies word swanger by Jool (Afrikaans for RAG)? (How many girls get pregnant at RAG?). Nobody really answered but they said it happens. I met a whole bunch of people I went to high school with and most of them were drunk - some people you'd never expect. I blame it on peer pressure. I will never give in to peer pressure and my friends will never pressure me into doing anything I don't want to. I saw one of my high school mates last week when I went out clubbing (which I don't really like - it was my cousin that wanted to go) and she said she'll be at 'vensters'. I saw her there and then the biggest surprise was seeing a girl I went to high school with that immigrated to New Zealand when we were in Grade 11. I never saw her since. I noticed her because when my friends and I sat down in 'The Neelsie' (our student mall) I heard a girl talking really loudly about how she wasn't drunk and talking about the only time she was drunk. The voice sounded really familiar and I turned to look and it was her, with other people I went to high school with. My friend went with someone to go say hello to other people from high school. They came back to us just to say hi. The New Zealand girl was obviously drunk. She came to us and started speaking, rolling her 'R's' asking if we know any place that sells 'boerewors rolls' (count the 'R's' in that. I get annoyed when South African English speakers roll there 'R's'and some of my friends do it. I expect that from Afrikaans speakers, but If you're English and South African speak SAE). The funny thing was that my friend said outside she was all 'gam' (The way Cape Coloureds from certain areas speak - not me though). I also saw people I used to friends with in high school, but I didn't even know what to say to them. We left Stellenbosch around midnight - it was pointless going to the clubs or bars because they are filled (people have to stand in the streets and according to my brother they closed one of the clubs at 23.00). And anyway, I had my university registration the next morning at 8.00 (but I wanted to leave at 6.50am so that I wouldn't have to stand in a long queue).