Showing posts with label lion's head. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lion's head. Show all posts

Friday, October 14, 2011

wednesday updates

the school is hiv-friendly and there are signs on all the doors. this means that children that were more than likely born with hiv are allowed to go to school here because a lot of schools in S.A. do not like to have kids enrolled that are positive. 

just hangin with some of the younger students while they wait for the bus and eating carrots! 

so far im doing 1 mountain a week. this week was lions head again only for the full moon hike. we watched the sunset at the top and hiked down with the moon as light but it was kinda cloudy. 

some of the cute kids after school 

finished off the day with a braai, a south african bar-b-q. soooo good! we braai right in the bar at salty's 

Thursday, October 13, 2011

school and surf

the time in the school has been great. im actually just physically exhausted tho after work. i have surfed 3 times in the past 2 days and climbed lions head again and been doing surfing and swim lessons and working in the computer lab. im drained. i bought a new wetsuit 2 nights ago because as i have said before, the water here chills the bones and the one's at salty's are peppered with holes and the almost freezing water and me aren't friendly together. i got a really nice one from reef but after wearing it in the water im afraid it is too big in the calfs because the water kinda rushes in and its a bit loose. anyway it still made the time sooo much better. the waves were great yesterday and decent today. im getting back into the swing of things. salty's is so nice to come back to after a day of surf and chill out, but yesterday instead of watching a movie and falling asleep, which i would have been fine with cuz i was exhausted, we decided to drive into cape town and a full moon hike of lions head. it was so beautiful and nice but im so exhausted still. the new guy, thomas, sophie and i went for a morning surf this morning and it was a bit small but we were just about the only ones out there so we had all the waves to ourself to mess around on. it was so nice. then we went to placement and worked with the 5th graders in the computer lab with math again and then took some of them swimming. im too exhausted to write much more but i will upload pictures of the school and my other happenings soon. 

Thursday, October 6, 2011

birthday adventures to lion's head and the cape town sev

stop on the way up lion's head to take pictures on the rocks with brent and chris

made it up! 

no matter the country i find my late night sev cravings never fade