Sea's Get Degrees

We pulled up to Cape Town at about 8am. After getting through immigration, Amanda, Jessica, and I decided to get a taxi to Table Mountain. On our way there, a guy ran a red light and hit our taxi. Our taxi driver saw him so he slammed on the breaks and turned away. Amanda and Jessica got a little whiplash but otherwise we were all fine. Not a great way to start the trip, but it could have been a lot worse than it was. We got another taxi and headed the rest of the way to Table Mountain. We took the cable car up to the top of the mountain. Unsurprisingly, the top of the mountain is super flat, and it has an incredible view of the city against the ocean. We saw a little booth advertisement and again, unsurprisingly, decided to go abseiling down the side of the mountain. Abseiling is like repelling, where you are in a harness connected to a rope that you kind of control but mostly the guides make sure you don't die. It was a ton of fun. After we hiked back up the 112 meters we abseil...

India…what a place. I honestly don’t know what I was expecting out of the country, but I think all expectations were exceeded. I knew that India had some of the worst polluted cities in the world and many people live in poverty, but when I was there, that’s not what stuck out in my mind. The more I travel through these countries, the more I realize how materialistic my own culture is. From what I’ve seen and experienced, these people are just as happy, if not happier, with so much less than what we have. I’ve realized that they don’t need iPhones or fancy cars or material things to be genuinely happy. Their connections and relationships are far more important to them and it’s a wonderful thing to see. The kids all playing with balls or playing tag during school rather than sitting out on their iPhones…people eating dinner and actually interacting with the people around them rather than the people who aren’t. I love it. My first day was mostly spent on a tuk tuk tour. A tuk tuk is like ...