Pretoria

My wife is from Pretoria, so I met her family there. The city itself is nice, but I was shocked by all the gated compounds, dogs and security guards. After a while, it starts to feel like a prison.

I was a student in Tukkies a.k.a. University of Pretoria. Good and bad memories, but I love it! I’ve made good friends here as well!

I live here for two months and attended the Pretoria Boys High School. I was used to going to schools with strong discipline where I behaved. At PBHS the philosophy was on self-motivation and discipline. Unused to the freedom, I completely slacked off and probably would not have finished school if our family had not moved to Pietermaritzburg. There I was enrolled in Maritzburg College – run very much on the strong discipline model I was used to. So I bucked-up.

Nevertheless it was a fun two months (not too much schoolwork, but there are other lessons in life to learn).

Pretoria is smaller than joburg and more laid back, so its defnitely worth a visit. Lotssss to do

Best place in the world.