Cape Town experience becomes a life desire 

The mother city blows my mind 

I felt like I was dreaming when they told us that, journalism second level students would embark on a journey to Cape Town for an academic excursion. Knowing that I was amongst the qualified students for this trip, definitely my heart pump higher and higher with joy and happiness. At first I thought we would use flight to go there since is too far, but only to find that the department organised us a translux buses. I felt it was going to be boring to travel (18) hours inside bus, since I wanted to fly for the first to Cape Town. Nevertheless, I tolerated the bus up until we reached the Mother City. I was like wow what the paradise is this! Is this South Africa? I asked myself many questions but sadly there was no one to answer my questions.

Everyone was really amazed about the beauty of the Mother City. Immediately when I set my eyes and looked at the geographical setting of the buildings, I eventually became overwhelmed. There came a time when I wanted to swim in the ocean but the funny thing was that I knew that I can’t swim. The only way I could satisfy my heart it was when I put my feet inside the ocean. It was awesome to see the waves blowing around, which definitely blew my mind, like really blew my mind. It made me to completely forget that I only came to Cape Town for only four days. I remember when my cousin called and ask about the date in which we would come back to Soshanguve.

 

 I couldn’t answer her directly; I kept on diverting from the question, because I was already on my fantasy world. At night when I walked out, I could hear the weasel songs which was sang by the sea birds. The profound melodies prompted me to get deeper into imaginary world, feeling like I already had a family and job in Cape Town. I couldn’t accept that my days are limited, the last day arrived and when they told us to checkout, I then realise that indeed I’m going back to Pretoria. 

Sadly even though I knew that I’m oblige to go back, I couldn’t get rid of my fantasy world. It came to a point when I woke up and saw the bus entering Tshwane University of Technology North Campus, That’s when I forced myself to get rid of my fantasy about the Mother City. Indeed the City became my life desire.