were here, were queer, ive already drank alot of beer

so after 15 hours on a smelly plane filled with annoying churchy upper east side teenagers headed to malawi to build something or another we arrived in the bustling city of Johannesburg. we stopped by the customs ofice to have our equipment registered and over paid for our Air Malawi flights that wont take place till the middle of September. Johan, our overtly racist Afrikaaner taxi driver dropped us at the wonderful Pension Idube. all set up we napped and took a little walk to the Williamsburg of Jo'berg, melville. sitting in a hip coffeehouse we watched hipsters frolic about playing on facebook, talking ab out the dj they saw last night and wondering to ourselves if we really needed to fly 8000 miles to do the same thing we could be doing back in Brooklyn.

our first day was s low one and we headed back after chatting up the kid in the Nike store for info on chill places to see and what shops to visit in the area. over the campus square mall, ( south africans cant get enough of malls, apparently for upmarket jo'bergers shopping is like there crack, for everyone else crack is like their crack). tried to buy a sim card but no dice u need passports to register, also looks like my unlocked iphone is not really as unlocked as i thought it was, so yeah if anyone knows how to properly unlock a jailbroken iphone 3g 3.1.2 i would appreciate the help otherwise i need to buy another phone.

back to melville for dinner ( 500 grams of steak is alot of meat). its one of the few areas that is safe to walk around at night so we did a bit of a stroll came home and passed out.

day 2 was slightly more exciting, we got the sim card went food shopping for the braai( grill) that i wanted to do for diner and headed into Jo'berg CBD ( downt0wn). w hit up the SAB World of Beer which is by far the best beer tour on earth and amazing cheesy ad informative at the same time. we got to try african beer ( made from soghum ) its creamy and boozy at the same time. four free beers and the tour fr about $4 bucks not bad at all. we left in a cab although we could have done the walk easily as kim had her camobag( aka the plastic shopping bags from the grocery store which covered her camera and purse).

head to park station so we can collect our train tickets only to be told that there is no available train till sunday, well TIA ( this is Africa) welcome to it

head home grill up some boerwors and eat a bomb braai dinner. talk to my friend from high school who lives in Pretoria and we try to figure out bus schedules. the crazy lady who runs this guest house says we should just rent a car, but im cheap so i say no. well im a jackass cause its just as expensive to take cabs and buses and a plane to cape town as it is to rent a car. so now im about to pick up the car head to pretoria chill with Anine. tomorrow is the soweto tour and after that its a 16 hour drive across the country to the bottom of the world.

see you on the other side