Pure nostalgia: UCT Ballroom Dancing

My favourite memories

• Joining in my 2nd or 3rd year of university.
• Maureen Shargey, our indomitable teacher, a live wire of wonderful energy. She was so awesome.
• All the fantastic dances we learned including Walz, Viennese Walz, Foxtrot, Quick Step, Rock n Roll, Jive, Cha Cha and Lambada (dirty dancing).
• Doing some private lessons with Maureen and two lovely fellow students ( whose names I can't remember). 
• Learning rock n roll throws where we had to throw up our partner and then bring her down onto the knee. "Bend from the knees" Maureen said!
• The wonderful socials that we had where we got to practice our steps.
• The Viennese Ball that was held in the main hall of UCT. I went to two balls; the first with the girl I did lessons with (a medical student who I was so attracted to!). And the second with Ally.
• Meeting Moira and going with her to a dance at Robben Island.
• Dancing with a girl in a sexy cat suit at a social and then discovering she was Rayburn's girlfriend!
• Nicola taking up ballroom dancing and becoming extremely good at it.
• After UCT, taking up Ceroc dancing, taught by Amanda and Johnathon.

Nostalgic visit to University of Cape Town (UCT)

I spent a wonderful couple of hours walking around UCT, taking photos of the places and buildings I frequented in my days there.  It was a nostalgic walk down memory lane. 

Jamison Hall and steps

Green covered buildings

Botany Building

This was the building where I spent much of my first year when I studied Botany and Zoology.

Leslie Building

This was the building where we had most of our Business Science lectures.

Nostalgic music from my 20's

Farewell to Willow Road

Well, we've sold Willow Road, our Cape Town house, and it's kind of like the closing of a chapter in our lives. Home from 1990 to 2000, the place is full of special memories.


Some Highlights

• Braais on the balcony
• The view from the balcony and the views of the mountain
• Living with a range of zany, wonderful housemates like Dain, Andre, Oliver, Ben, Eleda, Peter the plumber, Peter the paramedic, Shirly, Russel, Colleen and Rory
• Romancing Ally (including suprise Chinese dinner in my room)
• Sleeping out on the balcony
• Setting the house up with Ally in 1998 when we got back from overseas
• The walk in the mountain above the house
• Strolls to nearby Kirstenbosch
• Feta, the cat
• Pikiswe, our domestic helper (ah, those were the days!)
• Judge and Niki, Eleda's pugs
• Studying for university exams with Julian
• Summer holidays
• Some great parties including my 21st birthday party
• Some fantastic dinner parties
• A couple of family Xmases
• Watching South Africa win the 1994 world cup in the lounge (ecstacy).
• Watching South Africa losing to the Australians in the world cup cricket (run, Alan, run!)
• Lots and lots of cars outside and the dispair of the poor neighbours
• Gerald and the Edwards
• Silvia, my silver monza
• Waking up to the automatic irrigation system at 6 am in the morning
• The wild garden
• Walks up the hill at night to see the amazing views of the suburbs and check out other houses
• The chocabloc garage
• Furniture olympics

Graduation at University of Cape Town

My graduation from University of Cape Town

 Graduating with a Business Science specialising in Marketing.

Grahamstown Festival