Cape Town can be described as a place that never sleeps.
Each day there is something to do, be it a food market, festival, karaoke, or live music. Well, Sundays are known as Mzoli’s day.
Mzoli’s is located in a township about 20 minutes away from Rondebosch where I stay. I went with four of my friends. Once we got there, the vibe was very energetic. The streets were crowded with people and there were tons of vendors selling everything from jewelry to hats to mugs.
Mzoli’s is a place where one can go to purchase a lot of meat, and then take that meat under the tent, where there is a DJ, places to sit, and areas to dance and mingle. Before my friends and I went inside, we were able to choose from a variety of meats and any side we wanted. We got chicken and two of the longest sausage links I had ever seen in my life. As a side we got three slices of bread, and the slices were bigger than my head.
They told us we could then go ahead under the tent and that the food would be ready in about 45 minutes. It turned out that the food took about 2 hours to be ready (surprisingly typical of the food wait in this country) but we did not care. The vibe under the tent was amazing.
Trotter what she has realized while studying in South Africa: “We are at the age where we can still feel this free and have a future that is not yet clear but is in the process of being determined.” (RIZZARR File Photo)
Never before had I been able to meet so many interesting people who were so easy to talk to. And they were not just from South Africa but all around the world, either studying here, on vacation, or for work.
The music was very catchy; the DJ played remixes of popular radio songs as well as local music.
As I danced and looked around at the young people talking, enjoying their meat, smoking hookah, and feeling carefree about life, I realized that we may be from all around the world but we can come together in places like this to bond and connect with one another.
We are at the age where we can still feel this free and have a future that is not yet clear but is in the process of being determined.
Yet, it is up to us to pick what we want out of a vast range of opportunities. If being abroad has taught me anything, it has been that I may come from a different country than the twenty-something-year-olds I have met, but we have much more in common than one might think. I made some really great friends from my day at Mzoli’s.
At this age, we can all relate on having an open future that seems to have endless possibilities…
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