50. Dillo Day, South Africa-Style!

It's June! And it's Dillo Day!

Saturday 1 June was Dillo Day at Northwestern. Which means it was Dillo Day for Wildcats all over the world. Which means that a micro-population of Stellenbosch, South Africa had to celebrate one of the biggest holidays of the year. Which resulted in Dillo Day South Africa-Style.

In solidarity with the concert-got-rained out Dillo Day in Evanston, Stellenbosch and Cape Town had one of the biggest and coldest rain storms in their history. That totally rained out our plans to visit Cape Town for the day, so we all decided to sit in our rooms and do homework for the morning since we had a million papers due the next week. Then we decided to watch movies, play games and hang out all afternoon. It was loads of fun and soothed the pain of missing out on Dillo Day. We listened to lots of music. Told stories of Dillo Days gone by. And made a jello casserole with gelatin and orange juice because South Africa hasn't heard of flavored JELL-O yet. The horror!

Neha and I decided to order Thai food for lunch since it is one of two places in Stellie that deliver: Pizza Thyme and Thai Kitchen. I was very excited for some nice yummy thai food. And it was raining too hard to go anywhere, so we called and ordered it. And waited and waited for a phone call. Finally, at about 1:30, an hour after it was supposed to be delivered, we called them and were like where's our food, and they said that the guy had left with it a few minutes ago, so it should be here ASAP. And so we walked out to the residential area gate and waited and waited and waited in the rain for about twenty-five minutes. And then, thoroughly soaked and cold and defeated, we decided to walk back to our dorm since we knew Murphy's law would kick into effect and the guy would call the second we got back inside my room. Well, we got back, dried off, thawed out, warmed up, called the place back a few times to no answer. And then...the food was never delivered. It is to this day, the mystery Thai food. Where did our food go? Was it ever made? Was it ever delivered? Who ate it? Such sadness. I was so looking forward to it. Thai Sookdee, you've never failed me so. And I will look forward to reuniting with you and your yummy pad see ew in September.

We kind of made up for the thai food fiasco by convicing everyone to go eat sushi with us for dinner. We went to Stellenbosch's one sushi place, well, we basically swam there in the rain. And then we were seated inside a tiny red wood and glass hut outside in the courtyard in the front of the restaurant. I felt as if we were in a glass-windowed bird cage. It was very odd. There was only one of them, but it had a table for ten and there were 8 of us, so it was perfect. The sushi was delicious - I only eat vegetarian sushi and their avo and cucumber rolls were so scrumptious. Hadn't had sushi in Africa yet, so it was a lovely treat, perfect for Dillo Day.