crazyyyyy

so on saturday, i went to an exclusive private lingerie show at a club. we got hookups through one of our baller coordinators. one of the enticing things was free drinks for girls and cheap drinks for guys...but they ran out quickly. so we left for a bit and found a local bar where i took the coolest shotglass i've ever seen. souvenir for me!

went back to the club around midnight to see the lingerie show...drool drool drool girls were so hot haha. never really been to a fashion show outside of the CMU ones and well they're not quite like the real thing i imagine. the show was pretty short--around 20 minutes but it was all good :]

anyway, we were walking home and there were about 8 of us...and i saw a group of 4 guys walking in our direction. i didn't think nothing of it until i saw one of them lunge and grab katie's purse. she managed to get it away and the guy kept moving past...but then he tried the same thing w/ becca who was a few feet behind me. we ran and tried to help her and when i got there, after a few seconds of wrestling, the guy pushed me back and reached inside his coat yelling. he pulled something out and i thought it was a knife or a gun and i was like 'shit im dead.' but it was nothing, he was bluffing. so we threw him to the ground, told him to fuck off and kept going.

im so glad he didnt actually have a weapon...or that only one of the 4 guys actually tried to rob the girls cuz if all 4 had tried, we would've been outnumbered. that was a scary moment and it definitely reminded me that we all had gotten too comfortable and complacent in cape town. crime is definitely still a reality and walking aroudn the city is still way more dangerous than walking around phx or pittsburgh at night.

which brings me to tonight. monday.
i was walking home from a bar with a friend and about to cross an intersection. we hear a screech and a bang and we were like wtf? then we see a car screech into the intersection, brake really hard and try to take a hard left towards us. it was going too fast and went straight into the front windows/doors of the corner restaurant where i often eat lunch at carlucci's. i mean holy shit it must've been going like 100km/h or so. we got closer to the intersection and saw what the 1st screech was.

another car had broken the median, crashed into a palm tree and done so with so much speed and force that it had completely uprooted the tree and the tree was on the other side of the road. the car was stuck vertically at about 120 degrees so the rear bumper was further forward than the forward bumper. a girl was lying on the asphalt screaming and i could see bone sticking out of her left leg, which looked to be her femur. i could see her kneecap was busted and her left leg was completely swollen along w/ some bleeding everywhere. amazingly, in less than a minute literally, ambulances and police were there.

it had to have been some sort of car chase or race or something...the speeds they were going at jesus. i mean, brakes didn't hold and one car uprooted an entire palm tree. probably were drunk too.

i really wish i had my camera to take pictures but it got busted during sandboarding...looks like ill have to buy another one :(

anyway, the lesson is...dont ever drink and drive. i did my fair share of that back in high school and my early years of college, but no more. fucking crazy man. i guess seeing a car accident happen in real life is one of those life-changing moments.

i leave this place on friday and will be home on saturday...SADNESS!

i also shaved off the end of my pinky nail cutting an onion that was softer than i predicted. the knife went straight through like butter and cut my nail. a little bit more off and i would've sliced my finger clean off...which means no guitar :(
man, what a crazy week haha...and its only monday