Jo'burg

Wow wow wow. I've only been here for two days but I'm already convinced I came to the right place and I might just stay forever! I arrived in Johannesburg at 10pm and after dodging some sketchy people offerring me rides at the airport I finally made it to a place called Petra Backpackers. I woke up in the morning to the sound of strange birds I'd never heard before and 20 degree heat at 7am. Pretty awesome itself. I met a man named Dave here at the backpackers that is from the coast so I went with him for the afternoon to see some of the markets. It's almost impossible for me not to buy one of everything but I already can't manage to carry the stuff I did bring! We ended up pub hopping and I quickly noticed that it only costs about 1 CAD for a beer. Very dangerous! Anyhow he eventually left to catch a flight to Dublin so I stayed at the pub with some new younger people I met there. They took good care of me and I ended up pretty spoiled. I went out to a dinner party with them at this posh seafood restaurant that had incredible food and then it was off to a karaoke bar. I ended up doing a lot of singing and the DJ announced that it was my turn each time by calling up "miss canada". So, needless to say everyone in the place knew I was from Canada and it was not a place that travellers went so everyone else was very local. I ended up having a fan club of about six 40 year old women that were out celebrating a friends marriage and they were completely insane. Anyways the day was great and although I can't quite see straight because of extreme lack of sleep I am very ready for more. Tomorrow morning I fly to Cape Town so it's a night of sleep for me which is very much needed!!!! I hope you all are enjoying the huge amount of snow I left behind.... I'm quite content with the 30 degree weather here!!!! Chow!