Hi there.
I know I haven't written in ages. This was mainly due my feeling that I wrote about the 'holiday' part of my stay here, because there just isn't that much to say about the everyday life. I felt that this was not a good representatio of what I've been doing all this time.
But since I've been asked again and again to get back writting again I dedided to try to get a post back up every now and then.
Since October there is obviously so much that happend that I can't get into every detail.
Some of the main events though:
17th of November I turned 20. I got used to being that old by now though ;-)
In December I went on a holiday trip along the garden route from Cape Town to PE (Port Elizabeth) with my Hostfamily. It was great fun, the two "little" ones were with as well and we had a lot of fun. I did some bungy jumping at bloukrans bridge, which is with 216m officially the highest bungy jumping site in the world. That was nothing short of amazing. Besides that I saw some parts of this beautiful country.
In January I started to work at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in the HIV/AIDS Unit. Even though some days the work is kind of dull (like today)I do enjoy working here and most of coleges are nice. Besides the normal every day office work the is a lot of extra activities and workshops and those days are always good fun.
Febuary was the half way mark. Therefor we had our middle seminar in Pietermeritzberg near Durban. I met a lot of other volunteers from all over South Africa and 3 from Namibia and we had a good time. Afterwards I spend a few days in Durban itself which were nice as well. The Bluebottle incident was quite hectic though.
Then my Dad (including spouse) came to visit for nearly 3 weeks. So I met them up in Jo'burg and from there we went straight to the Kruger National Park. We saw the Big 5 and a whole lot of other beautiful animals. It is kind of scary though to drive past an elephant in a car the size and stability of an japenese rice bowl. We drove through Swaziland, since we only stayed one night all we saw was landscape out of the car window but that was beautiful. We then flew from Durban to Cape Town and spend about 2 weeks here. Good Times!
And now my Hosts have finally decided to build two extra rooms, but it seems I won't have the pleasure of those for two long. At least the next weltwaerts volunteer will have his own room for a year.
So that was the quick update for now.
Oh and one last thing. It is winter here now. That means I have to cope with freezing tempratures of 18° Celsius and above. At night it gets kind of cold though.
and enjoy the pics, the lion as a cub at his feet there ;-)