Plentiful Pretoria

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Pretoria isn't as bad as I thought it'd be. I must admit, it was pretty dead when we first got here but I imagine that the turbulent wind and hail storms kept everyone in. Or something. The CSIR campus here is a lot larger than I ever imagined. I based my idea of it on the 5+ story CSIR building outside UKZN. This place is just huge. You could probably drive for about 2km alongside it and still see buildings inside the campus. And there's buck and rabbits!! What's a little unusual though is that there's quite a few of these little mall'lets everywhere with it's own set of unique department stores and restaurants. It's as if they're small colonies that attract different niches of people. The one I'm currently at is separated by an all-you-could-ask-for DIY slash home inprovement section, Spur, and Superspar whereas the previous one we drove to had Woolworths Foods and other normal retail stores. They're also on the outskirts of town, just a little different I guess coming from Durban where we have two (now three I guess) megashopping malls to rule them all. Ah well. It's a nice culture if you're planning on slow, lazy days. There is hardly any hectic traffic where we've been to (a radius of 10km) and everyone seems pretty nice. Everyone except the arrogant 1time airhostesses but I'n not sure where they're from anyway. Oh right, that reminds me: 1time service sucks and I do not recommend anyone fly with them. Not only did they forget to ask me what snacks/drinks I wanted, they were also incredibly rude and arrogant when I did get their attention and was told "snack time is over". And apparenly they don't respond to the airhostess button above you. They completely ignored mine for half an hour (in fact they didn't come at all). Pathetic. Shame on you 1time.
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