Bear in mind that this was all happening on a Friday afternoon and not everybody lives on campus. Most people left without tickets and had to get to campus very early to ensure that they get tickets. mmmhhhmmm.
The morning of Saturday the 10th came, students were told to be on campus by 11h00 as buses were scheduled to leave at that time....well, buses only left at 13h25. can you imagine the frustation of many students who actually got to campus on the prescribed time?
Buses finally left, oh; there were a total of 10 buses hired for the event. First stop was Ultra liqours on Voortrekker road in Parow. That particular stop took a cool 65 minutes. My understanding of a tour ride is that, people on a bus being shown around a city and beign "educated" about the various areas and historical land marks.
Well that is definately NOT what was happening on the buses which went from Parow straight to Clifton beach and then right on to the "after party" in Stellenboch at the M'hudu farm. On the way back from Clifton to M'hudu, we must have made 8 stops for people who wanted to take a leak on the side of the road. When we eventually got to Stellenbosch, buses got lost.
One would have thought that they had gone and farmiliarised themselves with the area and destination before the day of the event, but no. we drove around in circles for a cool hour. Eventually at 19h15 we got to the farm and it was already packed with CPUT Cape Town campus students. This is where all hell was breaking lose.
There was absolutely no lighting whatsoever, it was so dark that it was hard to see the very people you were sitting with. Music, well lets just say, I could have brought my home theatre system and it would have been much better than what we had playing.
As we sat and laid our picnic blankets and cooler boxes, a fight broke out between a couple of students. They were fighting with empty beer bottles and punching eachother in the face like a couple of barbarians, a group of SRC guys came and broke the fight. As if that was not enough, five other fights broke out, a young girl was gang raped by three hooligans, another "couple for the day" had sex on the grass in full view of EVERYBODY.
Once they were done, they casually got up and proceeded to join the rest of their friends. Almost an hour later the same girl was seen walking to the same spot where she had had sex with some guy, with a different guy. Wow, is all I could say to that. Seemingly casual sex was the order of the day, or were people so horney that the simply could not wait to get home to their real partners?
What we experienced at that farm was appalling and sad at the same time. The picture below is just some of the horendous things people were getting up to. Two students having oral sex on the bonet of another student's car...
tStudents are increasingly getting into this absurd culture of having to consume large volumes of alcohol in order to have fun. We are unable to enjoy ourselves in a civilised manner. Is this the freedom our parents fought for? Is this what we mean when we say we are free?
It saddens me to be part of this losts generation and have to witness this type of behaviour from my peers. This type of behaviour is what increases unwanted pregnancies, HIV infections, STI's and many other social deminishing factors. I honestly thought we were smarter and better than this.
If this is what it means to be a cool student and being free then, I think I am better off the odd one out.
Peace and Love
A
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