32. Watch a futball game from the World Cup stadium

The fourth day was incredibly chill. Most of my friends did wine
tours but since we had our FDP to the same places on the sixth day,
Brandie and I explored the city. I really don't want to write right
now so sorry. I can't remember what we did at night. I'm assuming
something at Mitchell's. Maybe this was the night we discussed the
apartheid with two South Africans and met some guys on the Argentinean
rugby team. They didn't speak English. It was a test of my Spanish
skills. Questionable at best.

In one of my real estate classes at UW, we discussed the land
economics of cities. Normal cities have a high density of people in
the center with it slowly decreasing as you move farther away (this
also usually matches the cost of the property). If you look at a
topographical map with density represented, it appears as a pointy
mountain. Cape Town's is not like this. (we actually studied Cape
Town as an example that disproves this [at UW]). On a topographical
map it appears as a ring with low density in the middle and then
shoots up after a certain number of miles from the city center. This
is because during the apartheid townships were developed. The
classification you received (white, colored, or black) determined
where you lived (in one of the planned townships). White is self-
explanatory (they had the most rights, did not have to carry a book
listing their history, and could travel everywhere at anytime). A
black person is a native person (usually Bantu) or indigenous. They
have the least amount of rights, can only attend a black school, can't
be in a white district overnight, and must always carry an
identification card and a book of their history (holds everything from
where you were born to when you last went to the dentist). Coloreds
were inbetween. They had the most mobility between classes with one
foot in each. They include many ethnicities from mixed to Indians to
Chinese. The classification gets sketchy in the colored section.

This was so weird to experience first hand. You can actually feel the
distribution. The townships are so planned, right on the outskirts of
the city.

Cape Town is a city that can easily hide its wealth disparity
problems. Someone could spend an entire week here and completely miss
the extreme poverty in some of the townships. It's hard to get deep
in these blog posts but it really makes a person think.