Long time no Blog!

So some of you may have already heard that I'm coming home april 13. I couldn't change my flight and I didn't want to buy a new ticket just so i can stay longer in europe. I'll just go another time. So that means, this coming weekend is one of the last few weeks that I will be in South Africa. I'm sad to go. But I think it's for the better that I leave. Or else, I'll just keep on getting fatter and fatter and lazier and lazier. I have learned how to cook really well though. I have cooked three separate times here for the volunteers and they have all said it was good!

So next friday, Agnes will be coming to Jo'burg and we're staying in a backpackers for 2 nights before heading down to Cape Town. We don't have our own transportation so we're going to take the BazBus or try to make friends with people who drive =).

Last weekend, Anne and I met up with two girls from Holland who are staying in Pretoria. It's about 50 km away from us. We went out partying on friday night, then got up super early on saturday morning to drive to Sun City. It's a big resort in the middle of no where, about 2 hours away from Pretoria. It has a huge swimming pool that has big waves running every 1.5 minutes. They even have fake sand by the beach pool! We bought this special deal where you pay R120 instead of R65 so you get in the actual resort, plus get in the beach pool, and get lunch and tokens for games. Everything was all good until I went to the casino with everyone's tokens, hoping to change it to coins for the slots, and they turned me down saying that those tokens are only for children's games. So we played those instead. Not as special as slots... but that's ok.

We braaid on a camp site near Pilanesburg, a game park beside Sun City. We thought we could just do a last-minute decision on bbqing but that was obviously a mistake. We had no matches, no charcoal, no light, no cutlery, no plates, nothing. So we went to the campsite's store to get food, cutlery and drinks, and borrow/took everything else from our camping neighbours. It was special. Four girls braaing for the first times. I ate my meat practically raw because I was too hungry and i couldn't see if it was fine or not cuz we had no light. But I didn't die of E. coli so it's all good.

we got up super early AGAIN to do a morning game drive on our own. We saw tons of animals. We also saw people who saw a lion just 10 seconds before we got there. That still counts. I slept barely a wink the night before though because I had a dinky thin foam mattress while everyone else had big air mattresses. I shouldn't have been so nice as to give away my air mattress. But I heard impalas eating around our tent. I thought it was another man trying to get into our tent but it wasn't. There was an ostrich in our campsite too. I ran away like a mo-fo cuz I heard they can poke your eyes out!

Anyways, now it's 7:15 am and I have to go to work. This blog was quite boring... sorry about that! I was waiting for tom to call but he never did =(. I'll put up pics of Sun City/Pilanesburg soon.