Things are starting to heat up here, literally and figuratively. It was blazing hot here yesterday, but perfect beach weather.
Surprisingly, I am going to have a tougher semester here than I did last semester. We have a lot of papers to write for all of our classes on top of our excursions and the tropical weather. It’s not an atmosphere conducive to homework.
Last week we went on safari to Addo Elephant National Park and Schotia Private Game Reserve. It was extremely fun. Our guide Bradley was extremely knowledgeable and fun guy. In Addo we rode around in a bus and we saw quite a bit. We saw four elephants, cape buffalo, kudu (antelope like animal), springbok and warthogs. The private game reserve was really awesome. We split into groups of about ten and went out on covered Jeeps to explore. We immediately saw some lions. We also saw Giraffe, Rhinos, and a bunch of other awesome stuff. We saw four out of the “big five” South African game animals during the day (elephant, lion, cape buffalo, rhino, but no leopard).
We also started our volunteering at House of Resurrection AIDS Haven. The kids are absolutely wonderful. There are about 10 kids and we each have our own kid to provide one on one stimulation with. I am sort of paired with two kids, Thando and Denver who are six and eight. Denver is in a wheel chair and has the biggest smile of any kid I have ever met. He got a cut on his leg and the nurse had to come and clean him up. He didn’t even cry and as soon as she was done he went back on smiling. Wow, what do I have to complain about?
Otherwise, the sun is shining today and I will probably take my copy of Long Walk to Freedom to the beach….
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