First weekend!

So, I've moved in. Whoohoo! What a busy house. Have met about seven people already, and that was just in two and a half days, excluding all the people that showed up for the movie screening on Friday. Movie screening? Yes! this house is the best.
Don't have pictures yet, but promise to post. Think I've already found my favourite spot, too: the dining table. More on that later...

Details on two of the people I met:
1. The artist. It's his room that I took over. He let me in on Friday night, handed over the keys and gave me a 'quick' run-through of the house. (the alarm system is v complicated, esp because the setting all depends on where the cats - queen Manon and William - are.) Artist seems shy. He draws with charcoal and he is TALL. He nearly knocked his head against the (very high) doorway on his way out ("ah! that happens often but-" he ended his sentence as soon as he realized he was looking down on me and I would, in fact, not be needing advice on how to avoid high doorways). My feet turned pitch black within taking one step into the new room - all the dust from his charcoal pencils has settled on the floor, making its way between the floorboards and forever marking the room as that of an artist. I don't know why, but I am quite chuffed by this.

2. The german. Lives in the big room downstairs. Not sure if he is filmmaker, photographer or sociologist, but he takes a keen interest in the ppl around him and is a quiet soul. Has dark, beardy look. He organized the movie screening and the movie (from what I've heard) consists of scenes he shot in and around Bo-Kaap. He welcomed me to the neighborhood by saying there are all kinds of lovely sounds in this neigborhood.
"But good sounds, you know? Children playing, people talking. The people here live out of their houses and onto the street." 

I didn't join them for the screening, because I was dog tired and worried about finding space for all my stuff. But I fell asleep with a smile on my face as the sounds of clinking wine glasses and laughing children wafted up the stairs. A Cape Town wind pushed through the window. 

Progress report:
- Running a marathon: ran 7km on Saturday and another 7km on Sunday. Going swimming today and thinking of joining the Distance 4 Difference charity. More on that later, still recovering from the runs so not really lus for thinking up my next challenge quite yet.
- Making friends: see above and to be continued.
- Planning wedding: went to venue, chose menu and looked at lighting options. Cards to be printed at end of month. 5 Months to go!
- Learning something: You need to either feed the cats before you go to bed, or close your door when you go to bed. Else they will wake you with tiny, sqeaky miaaw-like sounds, poke you with their wet little cat noses so you open your eyes to find life size whiskers and bright, hungry eyes mere millimeters from your face at exaclty 4am.