Arrival in the mother city

Hello friends :)
Due to promises I made under the influence of alcohol I find myself now writing a blog..FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE o.O so I better apologize beforehand for mistakes I probably made setting up this page. I also decided to write in English so that all of my friends have the chance to read it.
Soooo...a week ago I still found myself in tropical Middle European temperatures, and all of a sudden I wake up in the morning finding myself in the oldest metropole of South Africa - Cape Town!!!
Though getting here really wasnt all that easy I had to find out. At least not this time and not for me. When I arrived at the Hamburg airport last Thursday, an hour early, all set for new adventures, the lady at the check in counter told me that there was a problem with my flight ticket and sent me to another counter to discuss it with those people there. It was then that I found out that the company I had booked my ticket at half a year ago online, apparantly had gone bancrupt in the meantime and had not transfered the money I had paid for the ticket to Emirates. So basically I had no ticket but paid for one. Great. So the only options I had was either go home again or buy a new ticket. Since I already had arranged everything: the internship, scholarship, a flat to stay at in Cape Town, someone renting my room in Germany, someone to pick me up from the airport in SA, I decided to buy a new ticket.
Then, after a 7h flight, 9h layover in Dubai and another 7h flight I finally arrived in Cape Town where a friend of a friend had already been waiting for me. At first I thought I was tired, but since it was Friday night, he had been working all week and his friends were really keen to go out, I decided to postpone sleeping and go out to discover Cape Town by night. Was a really fun night after all. The weekend he showed me the city and we had great fun! I also got in touch with the shared flat I had arranged beforehand and made appointment with them so I could move in on Tuesday. They are great people, a Dutch girl who has been studying here for two years now and a South African architect who is a really cool guy but is not around the flat too often.
I am surprised now a week has gone by already, but on the other hand it seems long since I have been home. Cape Town is a very beautiful and interesting city and people have been very nice to me. But then its very sad to see how much segregation and racism there still is. Wouldnt have thought so before I came. Still there is the "Afrikaans Culture" and the "Couloured or Black Culture". Most white people only hang out with other white people and most blacks only with blacks. When people asked me which music I liked and I told them R'nB, they gave me strange looks, later I found out it is not appropriate for a white person to listen to R'nB. Good to know -.-
Anyways. On Monday I will start my internship at the research office of the Democratic Alliance.I am very excited and keen to get to know more about South African politics!!

view over Cape Town

Table Mountain!!