Wizard of Bos

Now, after almost 12 months back in my home town, Stellenbosch, it may be time to set up a new blog for my time spent in South Africa. So I am faced with picking a name for the blog. After much contemplation, I have been left with two candidates: The Wizard of Bos, and Nr 10.

The Wizard of Bos is borrowed from the name of a play at the most recent annual rag festival held on the Stellenbosch University campus earlier this year. Each student residence can enter the Vensters event (pronounced "fensters", from venster versierings, meaning window dressing), held on the Thursday evening before the float parade that takes place on the Saturday of the rag. Each year has a different theme for Vensters and each residence presents a short open-air theatrical play on the Thursday along the theme of the year. This year, 2009, had the theme: "50% Original". The Wizard of Bos was the title of the play presented by Iza Carstens College and Rugby Academy.

Nr 10 is the flat number where I live. It also is the famous house number where the British prime minister lives. There is no association here and I don't drive a Jag but like the ring of it.

In the end, I picked Wizard of Bos as the name of my new blog. It has the right word play on my home town (Stellenbosch) and a playful connection with both the University and the famous film and stage production, the Wizard of Oz.

From now on until my return to Boston, my common experiences in life will be recorded in that blog, Wizard of Bos.