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Ghost Bus Tour

So I finally got a chance to use my birthday voucher, which was a ghost bus tour, through Joburg. 6 October 2012: The afternoon / evening started off at the Pound and Penny pub, at the Sunnyside Park Hotel. Dakota and I were met by a very warm, intimate pub setting, with old style furniture. We decided to make the most of the 2 hours we had to wait, and had 2 snack baskets and 2 slightly spirited drinks. At 7 pm, a bell outside the pub started ringing, indicating the tour was about to begin. Our tour guide was the man who created the Johannesburg version of the Ghost Bus Tour, Mark Rose-Christie, who dressed the part, and began telling some spine chilling stories of how ghost came about to be known in the real world. After a few scares, and some interesting stories, we boarded the bus which played eerie music to add to the atmosphere. We were given a brief overview of the evening, but were warned to not ask the driver where we were going, as he was not human! The fir

One year anniversary

Lets rewind a bit to 30 June 2011, the night I officially became unavailable, the night where Dakota decided to ask me to be his girlfriend after a simple bbm status update. We had spoken for 2 weeks, and I was crushing on him badly. I was confident back then, but when I couldn't even look him in the eyes and he made me feel school girl nervous, I knew there was something about him. He told me he liked Cian and would miss her while she was in Hungary, and I too would miss her as we had become good friends. A week later he admitted to liking someone else, someone he called a special person. Thursday 30 June 2011. Randburg Harriers By this time I was desperate to talk to him, and get in some alone time, but it seemed he had other plans. He was sitting outside, on a bench, talking to a girl from his school, who I happened to know as well. As he smiled away at her, I realized that he was too good to be true, and I had once again taken an unnecessary fall. Later that night I confr