There is going to be a rather large ship docking tomorrow in Cape Town and it is going to be packed with students! It docks at about 08:00 on Tuesday 19 September 2008. Semester at Sea is a program where you basically travel the world for a semester while studying at the same time.
How anyone studies aboard a ship is beyond me. Personally I would up the abuse levels and drink enough to actually float the ship that I am travelling on. My ship would be floating on Jack Daniels and Absolut as I take a Hunter S Thompson stance on things.
Semester at Sea has to be one of the greatest things in the world because you are surrounded by like minded people, you are young, you are cruising the world on a ship and everything is just epic. Guys and girls punishing the life at sea for all it’s worth. My semesters were literally THE most boring things this planet has ever seen. Class would fly by as I went into full shut down mode, not listening to a word the lecturers were saying. After class my entire journalism class would basically just head off to Forres, or hit the clubs four nights a week in order to forget that we were actually studying.
In between all the usual excess I could normally be found punishing the heavy bag and doing pull ups and sit ups. That’s why my body is sculpted like it is today. Ask anyone who had tickets to the gun show. Ask them about how the guns used to shoot and how I could lock them on rapid fire. I am devastating when I’m in training. I used to destroy brick walls purely for the entertainment value.
Off ‘el topico there…
I am still reluctant to actually tell people that I studied. When they ask me what I have done, I kind of mumble, choke on an olive, spit my drink out and then change the topic immediately. Semesters at college are not fun things, other than the life outside of the actual work.
But if you could make the work fun, it would be a treat. I’m pretty sure that your concentration levels go right up when you are in a beautiful setting. Normal lecture rooms are lit with hospital lighting, lecturers hate their lives, students hate their lives when they have to work and it all kind of ends up with everyone binge drinking to within an inch of their lives. Trust me. I have seen it first hand.
Anyway these students will be arriving tomorrow and leaving again on Sunday 23rd of February at 23:00. No doubt they are going to want to get liquored and so something like Paulaner Brauhaus at the V&A Waterfront would be suited to an afternoon brewski or thirty five. No doubt La Med will be smoking as usual as the Cape Town weather treats us like camels this week with heat that is so beautiful you want to eat it. I would also probably do a bit of Ignite to hang out with the crowd that look like they are all naturally just fashion models.
They are also here for the Lunar Eclipse on the 20th/ 21st of February. Well apparently it’s after midnight in Africa so it’s the 21st. Radness! Some people hike up Lions Head (I think) to see it so that could be quite awesome! I could have sworn I saw a Lunar Eclipse the other night but then I realised that I was just seeing stars and the Cane Train had left me for dead on the tracks.
If I were a student I would also make the trip out to Spier wine estate to get absolutely smashed tasting wine. Nothing like an afternoon of sun, vino and shenanigans. Maybe also pop into Moyo restaurant for a bit of food and some more wine.
So now if you are in Cape Town tomorrow morning you will see this huge ship rolling in and you will know that some people are coming to max out the party in Cape Town. A bunch of students are going to arrive and have the time of their lives in Cape Town for nearly a week. They won’t want to leave. We are lucky because we never have to leave.
So guys treat them with the usual debaucherous parties that we are known for. You won’t be able to buy them all a drink because on the Facebook group there are 600-odd students so I take it about 600 students will be arriving.
Cape Town brace yourself for these people. They WANT to party. We WANT to party. I can imagine the V&A Waterfront going mental tomorrow when the ship docks and the students go crazy knowing they have reached the best place on earth.
Enjoy the stay guys, see you around Cape Town. I’m the tall guy with the six pack and fourteen wives who can’t speak a word of English.
Sean Lloyd
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