Lollipop

I get asked a lot what I like most about Cape Town. I could go on about a lot of things but what I like most honestly is the conversations with the people. It's so refreshing to just speak without feeling like you have to watch what you're saying or rearrange your wording. The conversations I have here are all open and honest and intellectual. The history of South Africa is brought up in conversation by someone every day, seriously every day. I love how the people are willing to talk about their history and how it has affected their lives today. I love hearing about the passion behind their nationality. And I love how even though Apartheid ended practically 20 years ago it is stilled used as a means of education to form a new South Africa...like the American civil war. And I love love love how I can speak freely to someone of a skin color other than my own about how we each feel we are represented in our cultures. It's funny because we are represented differently but yet we really are no different. Our anatomy...our histories...our blood. We are the same people.