Wow it has been such a long time since I posted, or it feels like it has been anyway! Between the last time I posted and now, SO much has happened. A biology exam, Calamity Jane (school show), flying across the world, 2 amazing weeks in South Africa, flying back across the world, sleeping a lot, house up for sale, and my gap year interview! Don't worry, I wont bore you all with the intricate details of all that, I'll just give you an overview.
Biology exam - went ok. I was ill so I got to do the exam in an office by myself in a comfy chair at a proper desk. So much better than what the rest of my piers went through in the freezing uncomfortable exam hall! No results yet, only time will tell if all my many hours of revision paid off.
Calamity Jane - all sing along, "I just blew in from the windy city, the windy city is mighty pretty..." What a laugh. Chicarrrrrgy! (As our Calam pronounced it.) I played in the orchestra on the first 2 nights of the show. Watched it the 3rd night (and could recite most of it, sing along with the words and sing along with the orchestra!) and then...
Flying across the world - was on an aeroplane for the last night of the show. Too bad! Not throwing up at this point, infact had just started the long haul from Gatwick to Dubai to Jo'burg to Cape Town. What a laugh and a half that was. Threw up 6 times in total, felt miserable, ears hurt a lot, hungry, ill, couldn't sleep...Any of this sound familiar to all you experienced travellers out there?
South Africa - seeing Daniel (or Danasour as he gets called by the pre-school kids) was so cool and great and so natural. Which then started our mad, wonderful week in Cape Town where I didn't sleep much because people kept leaving the lights on in the dorm and I was in agony from sunburn on my shoulders and back. And then after Cape Town we flew onto Durban - unbelievable earache here - where I was greeted with rain. Great first impression! Got a taxi from the airport to God's Golden Acre, about 40 minutes from Durban in a place which is unbelievable similar to PNG. And so my even madder, wonderfuller (is that a word?!?) week began with the kids of GGA. Cool kids, a lot of fun, like being tickled, like being carried around, like jumping on the volunteers, it was cool! I saw an amazing sunrise at 5:30am, saw the kids worship God in Zulu, saw some Zulu (Gumboot) dancing and drumming from the lads Daniel looks after on an evening, and then had to say goodbye to them. Man, that was horrible! And it was only a week, and I was gutted to leave them. I still find it so strange, thinking that I'll never see those kids again. The holiday finished on a bit of a bang though. We found out at the beginning of the week that South Africas biggest band, who happen to be a tres strong Christian band, Tree63, were playing in Durban on my last night. So a few of us got tickets to see them. Got lost on the way, but eventually found the place it was at. The gig was outside, we got rained on, but its all atmospheric isn't it! It was such an amazing night, they are such a good band, I recommend them. I think the album '63' is pretty great. Gutted to say goodbye to the other volunteers after the gig, even more gutted to say bye to Daniel the next day. But I'll see him in a few months time!
Flying back across the world - piece of cake! Why do people worry about flying? All that talk of earache, throwing up, feeling bored, restless and uncomfortable...nonsense! Or you get that feeling if you're completely drugged up on completely legal herbal tablets that are to relax you. Wow, they do the trick. So the flight home was, as I said, a piece of cake. No problems there!
Sleeping a lot - well you all know how that works. We sit down with every intention of just reading a book and then writing those essays in about half an hour. Then we wake up and its about 3 hours later and all our good intentions have gone out the window. So several half hours later (like 3 days worth) I eventually sat down and wrote my essay. Well done me.
House up for sale - fairly straight forward. We have a sign outside our house saying 'For Sale', people come and look, obviously will automatically want to put an offer in for it, we continue to look for a house to move into. Not too much explaining needed there I hope!
Gap Year Interview - in a few words, me and my drove for 3 hours, interview was fine, but now don't want to go to Ghana with them because they'll be sending me out by myself. With people to oversee me, but in no team of any kind, it'll just be me pretty much. So no thanks! Back to square one on the gap year front. Never-the-less, I will not worry because I know God will show me where He wants me to go for 6 months!
So thats the end of that! Thankyou for paying so much attention (if you made it this far!) :-) Feel free to comment, write to me (tvaboof_87@hotmail.com) let me know how you are doing, if I dont already know. And if I do know, let me know some more! God Bless x x x
