Day 4

After writing last nights blog we were joined by George, 1 of the residents, we started talking and he said he had been here last year when the others were here so knew all about why we were in Cape Town and what we would be doing. Him and his wife are staying here and he had some really interesting stories, he first moved to Cape Town in 1965 and after some moving around he loved it so much he came back. He offered to take us out like he had done previously with Luke and Jeff, which me and Harry are looking forward to. We are slowly getting to know people which is important if we are going to make the most out of our time here, George and Conan have offered to show us about and tomorrow hopefully we will meet up with Elias, he is a cousin of a friend of mine from London that has also offered to show us around, people will come to Cape Town and do the touristy things but it's people like those mentioned that have lived here that will be able to show us places that your normal visitor to South Africa might not get to see.

Here at Berghof they serve lunch at 12 on a weekend, today as its Sunday its a roast on the menu. Even though we've been here a few days I'm still on English time so it was a Sunday roast breakfast in my mind, hopefully when we start properly working next week I'll adjust a little bit better. After yesterday's confused look as to why we were there I went down in my Arsenal shirt, sure enough a few more of the residents came to say hello and ask if we were doing what look and Jeff did last year. We saw George again and he had said he would put the word around as to who we were. It's a bit awkward at the moment, we don't want to stand up and announce who we are as though we are something special, and the majority of residents we only see at meal times so we don't want to interrupt, but obviously some of the residents are still slightly confused. Hopefully word gets round and we get talking to more people in the coming week.

We spent part of today just walking around, seeing what is around and found out we are only a 20minute walk from town. Wearing our Arsenal colours as it was game day it was surprising how many people just wanted to stop and talk football with us. It was nice to explore a little as the real work starts tomorrow.

We had organised to go watch the Arsenal game at the Cape Town supporters club with Conan and another member. I had looked the other day and it was roughly a 4km walk through a nice park, so with it being a cooler day it sounded like a good idea. Unfortunately last night we double checked the route and it was the wrong place, and instead of a nice little walk it was quite a distance away. Even though we successfully managed to use the busses yesterday we didn't fancy doing the journey as it involved getting a bus, a train and then a long walk. Our luck was in, Conan offered to pick us up and drop us off.

Conan picked us up with his wife and nephew around 5:30, he drove us to the pub bought us a drink and sat down to watch the game with us. Not the best of games but I'll take a 3-2 win and into the draw for the next round. The supporters club made us really welcome and have invited us along next week to the opening of a new branch and to a braai. Great bunch of guys, really good atmosphere, buts it's Conan we owe the night to. After the game we they took us out for food and drinks and we spoke for ages about Cape Town, London, cars, football, Geordie shore, you name it. They have invited us round there's for food, offered to show us round and even offered to take us clubbing, that'll be an experience. Another positive was they said that they couldn't tell mine and Harry's accents apart, so that's either a compliment to me or an insult to Harry. Harry is very well spoken some would say a rather posh accent, me on the other hand you'd say is a mixture of an East end cockney and Essex accent.

Great day again showing just how friendly people are.