Winter is upon us. At 4 °C (39 °F), my morning run felt a bit like early December in Grand Rapids. The thermometer on my colleague Karin’s car read 2.5 °C (36 °F) as she drove out of Cape Town. It is all quite a change from 27 °C (80 °F) and rising for morning runs in Accra. The Western Cape winter is cold but not bitter for Michiganders. Regardless, the South Africans were whinging about the risk of frostbite.
We spent our day thus: Catherine and Danielle went to the Two Oceans aquarium at the V&A Waterfront. They had fun, but Catherine wished for more sharks! Mark walked to the Stellenbosch public library to enjoy the free WiFi and read books. Tracy worked on lining up interviews for an upcoming trip to Johannesburg. I finished the penultimate draft of a paper that has been three years in the making and prepared for my course which begins of 4 July.
We are settled into Western Cape routines.
—Matt
