A dinner meeting with an old friend

So it's Friday and another beginning to my adventures.

For those of you who didn't know, I was a bit sick yesterday and this morning. I really was a hot mess, but I am getting better and decided I should have some fresh air. As a result, I decided a meeting with an old friend for dinner was in order, as I felt that sometimes a good remedy is seeing a familiar face.

For those of you who don't know this is my friend Dominic. Dominic hails from Zimbabwe. He goes to Brown, however has decided very recently to take time off from Brown to take part in an internship as well as explore some of Southern Africa. He had just arrived into Cape Town from Providence about two days before. I decided to meet Dominic and an old school friend of his named Tinashe for dinner for a bit for dinner and drinks to talk about anything.

I took the boys to a nice restaurant on Kloof Street called DaVinci's which serves excellent pizzas. They also have fabulous cocktails there. We opted to sit outside since the weather was quite decent and like many restaurants in Cape Town, in outdoor settings they have heaters on the lamp posts. We talked for about 3 hours about all sorts of great and terrible things. Politics, religion, and most importantly my experience with South Africa.

It was a good dinner and it was good to see Dominic again and to meet someone new (Tinashe). I am disappointed that he won't be at Brown this fall, but it's for the best. I understand that sometimes getting away from Brown is good for some people. I can completely relate. Although I do miss Brown at times, I think that leaving Brown (and the States for that matter) was the best decision I could've made for myself in the transition from my junior year to my senior year.

I will reflect more on this in the days to come. For now I will just leave this be.

Tomorrow I have another adventure on the way. I'll post about it soon :-) In the meantime keep checkin on me ;-)

Carolyn