Exploring Cape Town, South Africa

We spent 5 days in Cape Town, South Africa. 

Cape Town was really fun. We went up to the top of Table Mountain. We bought a book that taught us a lot about the animals that live on Table Mountain. There are 100 different animals that live or lived on the mountain.Sadly, many of the animals are extinct. We took a cable car to the top of the mountain. 

We docked at the waterfront. The waterfront has lots of different shops and restaurants. We went to see penguins and seals. It was fun. The penguins at Boulder Beach started coming in 1982.The South African Penguin is endangered. We went on a boat to go to Seal Island, but we had to stay on the boat because it is illegal to stand on the island. The seals ate squid and fish. 

We went and visited the townships. Before 1994 only black people lived in townships.They had no electricy before 1994. We visited the the Langa Township. We ate a restaurant there called Mzansi and people from all over the world go to eat there. We got to play the Marimba and we learned a dance called the Pata Pata. We also visited an after school program called Happy Feet in the same township. The kids taught us how to dance and clap. We also played soccer with them. 

We thought it would be cool to make a video of the stuff we did for this blog and to show our class back home.  Papa helped us with putting it together but we wrote it all up and chose the pictures.  We hope you like it.  We loved Cape Town and want to go back really soon!

HERE is the video.

Since You've Been Ghana

Hello from the Atlantic Ocean.  We just left Ghana a few days ago. Ghana was fun but hot.  We went to a hotel in a place called Akosombo which is north of where we docked, Katie, our teacher, went with us. We played baseball and soccer. We made a local friend that played soccer with us. Julian's team beat us in soccer 2-0. The local guy was really good! There was also another friend who was having a birthday and we sang to him and his group.  They really liked us and were very nice. We will see them when we come back to Ghana one day.

We liked the food, I tried fried plantains and they were yummy. Papa had some stuff called Red Red which looked like arroz y frijoles back home.  He liked it a lot and put hot sauce on it which he said made it even better.

  The hotel was right on the river, near the Akosombo Dam that powers almost all of Ghana. We drove to see the view of the dam. We also learned that the bees in Ghana are STINGLESS!  We headed back to the ship to head to the next port in Ghana, Takoradi.  There we went to have lunch in the center of town called Spikes. 


We saw, chickens, birds, cats, roosters and hens roaming around. The people in Ghana are very friendly and always smiling.  Once back at sea we crossed the Equator and the Prime Meridian. That means we were at 0 degrees longitude and 0 degrees latitude. 


We celebrated Neptune day, which is a day that we pledge to respect the ocean and become Shellbacks.  You become a shell back, by getting "fish guts" poured on you, jumping in the water, kissing a fish and kissing King Neptune's ring. My dad got to be King Neptune and my mom was the Queen. I was also part of the show with my brother. We marched around the ship to wake people up!  You can only become a shellback if you cross the equator by ship and the participate in Neptune day. So you guys are all pollywogs! 

 We will write again from South Africa. See you soon. BYE.