Cape Point Nature Reserve

The day at the Cape Point Nature Reserve was definitely an eventful one. It had been my first time at Cape Point and it was super awesome!! When the day started the weather didn't look to good, as if was about to rain heavily any second. The bus trip was about 2 hours and when we arrived there, it was super windy and cold but I got really excited when i saw the beach and the huge hills. My friends and i walked around and took pictures of the views. We then boarded the bus again and drove towards the reserve. We started hiking at the first hill and saw many different plants and insects it was amazing, we stopped to take pictures at a point but the wind was extremely strong. There were times where we even had to hold on to each other because it felt as if the wind was about to blow us away.

The lecturers then called us back because it was getting misty and we then went to the beach to take pictures of the beautiful views. We then boarded the bus again and was on board to the lighthouse. The trip to the light house was quick but i had a bad headache and luckily one of my friends brought pills along which helped a lot. After getting off the bus we decided to hike up to the lighthouse and on the way we saw quite a few baboons which were just chilling and eating condoms haha. The walk up to the lighthouse was crrraaap exhausting because it was uphill like all the way but nevertheless it was fun and we managed to take pictures along the way. When we finally arrived at the lighthouse, the views of the sea were amaaazing! It was also my first time at a lighthouse so yeah it was really cool. A few of my friends and i then decided to go on another trail which wound all around the lighthouse, half of us didnt go all the way because one of my friends didnt want to because of the time (not mentioning names) *cough cough* lol. We then waited for the others but decided to go back because it was nearing the time to go home. We then ran down and i got tired so i stopped and walked the way back to the bus alone :( lol. By the time i got back to the bus i was sooo exhausted and hot (despite the sucky weather).

The drive home was long but I really enjoyed myself and would definitely love to go back as the Cape Point Nature Reserve is definitely a beautiful place with amazing views and not forgetting the wide variety of the fauna and flora. This was also the first time i had gone out with my varsity friends and it was a crazy and awesome experience. However, the sucky weather gave me a really bad cold and sore chest:'(. Oh well, at least I can say that it was really worth it:)

I was initially excited to start the ECP as it was a start to a new chapter in my life. I was also especially excited for ISC as it was a new subject that I never encountered before. However, when we actually started with the work, my excitement soon withered away. It was a huge adjustment from high school to university as I had to make new friends:( and get used to the long hours. At the beginning I thought Life Science would be fun, but unfortunately it was extremely boring in the first semester as we focused on plants and cells:'(. We do waaay too many unnecessary activities and watch too many videos that normally caused majority of the class to lose interest. Sometimes I dont even see the point in coming to class as we have to self-study the work. Life Science practicals were sometimes fun as you get to view thing under the microscope and learn many new things. The thing I hated the most about the lfs practicals in the first semester is that they gave us a lot of surprise quiz's which I often failed:/. The Life Science Tut marks in the first semester sucked!!! Unfortunately my tutor is a Ph.D student that marks extremely strict which caused our group to have sucky marks while the other students in the other groups had sky high marks:(. 

I was never really good at math on high school so I was scared of math, particularly now that we are on university. My math marks basically sucked in the first term since I failed every second tut we wrote but somehow by the grace of the good Lord i managed to pass. Since a lot of our math lectures are in the morning, i bunked them because my bed felt extra warm and cozy that mornings:) and that caused me to fail many of my tuts:'(. Second term I pulled up my socks, worked harder and managed to get an A for the midterm test:D. I dont like math nor hate it as it helps me to think on my toes nad keep me busy.

Aaah then there is ISC 153. I don't even know where to begin:/. Well for starters ISC makes me feel dumb, when we have to annotate articles in the course reader book, most of the time I have no idea what the article is about and it feels as if I am reading a foreign language, some of the articles does not even relate to Life Science! They give us tasks and expects us to complete it within an hour and the workload is sooo heavy jeez. However, I do enjoy the computer literacy and Living and learning classes as it is more laidback.