I can't remember the last time I wrote about what has been happening here and I can't even begin to tell you everything so I'm going to hit the high points. I still love my kids! We've gotten 1 new toddler and 2 new babies in the past month. The fact that I only have 2 more weeks here is not acceptable. A huge group of volunteers left this past weekend and it was really sad to say goodbye. Even though I've only known everyone here for less than 2 months we have forged some incredible friendships and I love all of them dearly.
Ok but high points since last time. Lets see, I went to the rugby semi-finals match and cheered till I was hoarse, hiked Lion's Head and watched the sun set over the ocean and the moon rise over the city and then hiked back down in the dark,
went wine tasting and got food poisoning from vegetable risotto, said goodbye to some amazing friends, saw an african version of The Nutcracker, attended "high tea" with my roomies,
and went on South Africa's famous Garden Route and saw plenty of baboons!
We stayed at the cutest little hostel called Fairy Knowe in a middle-of-nowhere town called Wilderness...
bungee jumped off the highest bridge in the world, and by extension the known universe...
twice! and backwards the second time which was a bajillion trillion times better/cooler. And the best part was that I got to go back to back. I hadn't even finished my exuberant celebration dance from the first time when I heard about 10 guys calling my name from the side of the bridge. So I danced my way over to see what was up and before I knew it, I was hooked up to another harness, and told to walk to my death for the second time that day! But I don't want to make you green with envy just yet so let's move on shall we...
Ostrich riding. You think this is a laughing matter. It is not. Ostriches are the second fastest animal in the world and are extremely aggressive - and stupid which makes this all the more dangerous. Their brain is smaller than one of their eyeballs and they have a giant, man-killing toe that, when feeling threatened, they will kick into you forward and down, thus thoroughly gutting you so that you can watch yourself die slowly while your intestines hang outside of your body. The only way to get away would be to play dead, at which point they tend to sit on you with all of their 300+ pounds for anywhere from 4 hours to 4 days. Obviously, I had to ride one.
But make no mistake, I'm working my butt off here. I get up early Monday-Friday for work to get beat up, peed/pooped/thrown up/snotted on by darling little children, then go home to work on projects for Nomzamo, and study isiXhosa. And I love every second of it.
But I guess that's all. The next time I do something insanely cool, like I don't know, play with one of the rarest tigers in the world I'll let you know! Oh wait...
You can get jealous now!
I love you all!!!
