Quarters Durban

... to split our journey and boarded a minibus for Swaziland, about 1/3 of the way to Durban. It was a miserable day (I think I cursed ourselves bragging about summer last time) and we had our bags getting wet in a trailer on the back - just as we were about to leave a lady near us started to shout and point to her bag. We're not exactly sure what happened but think she was accusing someone of ateling her purse ...

Here I am again with some pictures for you. I will be going to Umlazi on Wednesday to stay and will meet my Zulu friends. I cant wait to see my friend Precious who I met when she was 13 and now she is 18. Having a very good time, although the weather is very weird, really hot for days, then it goes cold.<br>

... out he used the monkey mace and sprayed it all down the hall until it was out the door, then once he started choking realized that oh yeah I sprayed mace in here. It spread through their whole chalet and Sal even woke up from coughing.<br><br>One last story, we have this thing here in South Africa with peanut butter. And I have always loved peanut butter but we eat so much of it here! we always joke about it too because we will have it at every meal. The South ...

... for me! You can watch a Bollywood movie in town and I did see a lot of Indian people and talked to a few ladies. The Good Food and Wine festival was a good change from doing the typical tourist thing! I didn't have any wine, but tried a lot of food and had several coffees. The food was mainly samples from small companies who were advertising their products. I had lots of pesto and other dip and sauce, French crepes, fudge ...

... in the downtown streets of Durban and turning into oncoming traffic, I started wondering if we should just tow the car to our hotel. Unfortunately, I came to find out that our AAA membership doesn't quite work in South Africa. The next day we were off to Eshowe. I liked the highway drive because I didn't have to switch gears - I was a champ in 4th and 5th gear. It takes a lot of skill to stay in 5th for 40 minutes believe me.

I spent the entire week last week balancing my time between the Transition Home and the office. On Tues, Feb. 19, I had the opportunity to interview my first cross-cultural adoption family for my research project - an Afrikaans couple who adopted a Zulu boy who is HIV positive when they were 51 yrs old. They were granted full custody when he was 18 months old. The adoption wasn't finalized until he was 4 yrs old due in ...

... complete garbage). After faxing them the tickets and waiting 4 hours for them to get back to us we finally managed to delay our return from South Africa by another couple of weeks. 2. We needed to hire a car to complete the leg of the journey from Durban, via Pietermaritzburg and Lesotho to the coast and onto Cape Town. Here again we had problems with the website booking ...

... The hostel is deserted so I spent a while chatting to the guy working in the evening who seems to be a bit of a hippy - he asked me to analyse some of his doodles which was interesting!! Then we had a huge thunderstorm which was really impressive - the lightning was incredible. A couple of other guests arrived during the evening, but I think there must've been less than 10 of us in total!! Tuesday ...

I land in Durban SA Sunday evening. I have been traveling for nearly 24 hours. The flight was largely uneventful, which is the way i like flights but in the entire 20 hours of travel not one funny thing happened, nothing, nada, whatever though im in Durban. Durban is a place where it is sunny 270 days a year, its pooring rain. How did i time that? I grab a cab and head to Ansteys beach hostel which is ...

... round mud houses), some crafts that they do, dancing, and traditional healers. Next, we stopped at a river where we could swim & a few people jumped off the cliff into the pools (this is called "kloofing"). We also saw a massive shipwreck & had a sundowner drink overlooking the ocean. Next, I travelled further east to a tiny village called Coffee Bay. The excellent hostel there had daily activities and meals that were fun & cheap. One day we hiked over ...