American Happy Hour and Spying Satellites

To finish a glorious day, the American contingent gave us an American Happy Hour!!!

It was great as since it was such a nice day, we were able to have an open air party outside the restaurant. It was just perfect.
Free Drink, free snacks and wonderful company. I'm not sure if it gets better than that.

It was also Ambrose's (teacher from S. Africa) birthday. Happy Birthday!!!! We all sang happy birthday to him and then each nationality also sang it to him in their own language. As this was happening, some random woman came up said it was her birthday as well so we did it all again!!!!

I spent most of my time mingling just eating, drinking, (orange juice and tea since i am a pillar of the community;-)and talking to people. We then had the ipod and speaker set up so i tried my best to play MUSE and some more 'recent' music. Unfortunately, i had to suffer 'Pink', 'U2' and oldies whom i've never even heard off :-)

Zeger, (Dutch teacher) then set-up a pair of binoculars and i got the chance to see Jupiter and it's first three moons!!!!!!! How cool!!!!!! I saw Jupiter with my own eyes. Admittedly it was no more than a bright star but it was still cool. I then stood for ages just staring up into the sky. This only works if the sky is clear without any clouds. I found the longer i looked the more my eyes became adjusted and the more stars that i could see. It was simply breathtaking to see the stars almost 'phase' into existence. (They were always there it was just that my eyes weren't accustomed to seeing them)

Then i saw this star that was moving at what seemed like at constant across the sky. I knew it wasn't a plane as planes have flashing lights..... i wondered if it was a UFO. Then it was pointed out to me that i was actually looking at a Satellite!!!!

A telecommunication satellite!!!!!!!!!! How cool. It's amazing what you can see when you look up at the night sky..........