My home country

The beautiful mother city, Cape Town, that’s where I’m from, Western Cape, South Africa…. the south of Africa…. 

As you can see, it is a very very beautiful city. I am going to give tou my top three favorite things about my city/ country.

#1- The food! I am a lover of food, and there is something about the food back home that is just incomparable. It’s not even that the food is so much different back home, it’s just the way its made. Our typical food is braai, which is basically a barbeque, but with more flavor. Everything is just rich in flavor and maybe it’s because everything is homemade. We don’t have a lot of chain stores like here, there are more personally owned restaurants.

#2- The landscape. I am staying in Jersey in America and there are a lot of trees, but in Cape Town there are a lot of mountains and I live right by the sea. It’s beautiful. I miss being surrounded by mountains and always knowing which direction I am going in (table mountain is North), and I miss having the beach just 10 minutes away and being able to surf all the time.

#3- The culture in Cape Town is so diverse and authentic. We have, like America, people form all over the world living in our city, but mostly like black peopl. The cool the about the black culture is it’s very colorful and vibrant, and friendly. Everybody in Cape town is very friendly, and always sharing everything. The way people dress, again mainly the Africans, is also colorful and bright. the culture is also very traditional, we have a lot of strong heritage, which comes out in our national landmarks and the tourist destinations. Below are some pictures and a video from the world cup just to capture my city’s personality

Random fact: We have 11 official languages in South africa, but English is our main one, then afrikaans and xhosa.