Kaapstad!

Dan, Cammi and I are in Cape Town right now. It is seriously the most beautiful and chill city you will ever go to. We got here yesterday morning and immediately was thrown into the mix as we went to eat lunch in the middle of CT at a place that serves literally every form of food east of the Mediterranean. It was really cool though because it was very diverse but everyone was very friendly. Morgan and I got to catch up which was real cool!

A little background on Morgan is he grew up in San Diego and played for Surf growing up. He is a year older than I and we went to school at APU together for 3 years. He is a solid guy with a heart for God and Soccer. Originally, he came to Cape Town to play for a professional team called Ajax Cape Town (which is a shoot off and feeder team for Ajax Amsterdam. Several players like Benny McCarthy, Grant Igesund, Steven Pienaar have come from Ajax Cape Town as well as Cameroon international Eyong.) He played for Ajax for 2 years before being loaned out to the team that I played for when I was here called Ikapa Sporting. They tried to sell him to a team in Joburg but he didn't want to go so he quit and is now living in Cape Town. He has a gigantic smile and an attitude that draws people to him. He is now working as a fit model for Woolworths (equiv would be Sears or Nordstroms) and also is starting a Football Club called Khayelitsha United in one of the townships here in Cape Town called Khayelitsha. He has brought it from no teams to 3 teams U-13, U15, and U-17 Boys. He has gotten Umbro to sponsor it and has more worth than it did a year ago! The goal of the project is to get these boys out of extreme poverty and gangs to hopefully either play professionally or into a University somewhere. They are looking to partner with other club teams in the states to hopefully make this happen!

(The website is http://www.freewayfootball.org/)

After we dropped off our stuff at Morgan's house (the guy we are staying with... my gk in college), we went to the fan park and got some scarfs for presents back home as well as watched part of the Brasil/Portugal game (which was the worst game of the world cup till the next spain/chile game which was worse but at least there were goals!). We went out to eat at a place called greens and sat ironically next to another american family with 3 boys. The parents were asking questions about what we did and how long we were staying. When they found out that Morgan is an ex pro and that I played as well, the questions were never ending! haha, morgy and I just laughed and had fun with it. We went back to the flatt and went to sleep.. it was a long day! I was definitely excited for the next day! Go US!