Sleepy Hollow Adventure Backpackers Pietermaritzburg

Well today started early since we had a final at 8:30 in the morning and I was up late so that wasn't a fun one. I think that I did really well on it though. It was our final for intercultural communications. After that we began preparing for our thank you lunch to all the staff here at AE. We all had different jobs so some cooked some served etc. I served and it was really cool. We made them this thai rice and meat thing and these tortilla like things with chicken and a ...

... usually 10 rand tuesdays (normal price is 20) and for those who don't know 10 rand is like a dollar and a half maybe! Yeah! except for some reason it went up to 14 on Tuesdays but still that is less then 2 dollars. It was a good thing too cuz we saw A Christmas Carol and it was horrible!! at least i thought so. It was just too weird.

I helped Rachel and Danielle put together our thank you's for the staff tonight and now I have been trying ...

... class time and our 4 service sites groups did their final presentation which Jon Wallace and friends (aka board members) decided to stay and listen to. Each presentation went from 30-40 minutes and all were really good. We shared what our ministry did, what we did there, the community engagement we used, recommendations for next semester and how it affected us personally. I talked about a few things that I knew had changed me but basically said that it just ended ...

... and they would ask when we were coming back which for a lot of us the answer may be never :/ I hope to come back during a summer sometime in the near future with the APU missions team they send. They would also say that they will miss us and that made it pretty hard today. We got to take photos with most people today too and that was really cool. some of the houses we had only been outside before we got to go inside of and I was so shocked to find ...

... did it take me so long to do it in the first place! lol When we got to WITL today it was rainy and freezing again :( 14 C whatever that converts into. Today we sorted clothes, got a couple more computers working in the lab, designed a mural that we are going to paint in the computer lab, some gardened with the Gogos, Taylor and I finished the tire swing and we had a lot of time left at the end of the day so we found ourselves in the house just ...

... of rubble we worked on on Tuesday, it was really hard work actually. And Taylor made a little staircase that was needed to get to the playground. Some very cute little boys came when we were getting discouraged and helped us load wheelbarrows and that made it a little fun again. We also went to take food to a couple families again and picked a woman up from the clinic. Then the older youth (16-22) started to arrive and some of the younger ...

... dirt, etc. with shovels and our hand and wheelbarrows to clean up the place a little bit. I saw like 4 different bugs that i have never seen before in my life till today... yuck! and we did that for about an hour and a half. And we had an encounter with a snake ! but I guess it was just a brown house snake but it was huge! and purple not brown. For our last 30 minutes we took boxes of food to four families in the township and idk to me I wasn't like thrilled I guess because like we ...

... it and pretending to play the instruments. All the chalets put together great performances but in the end 2 had a dance off and the boys ended up winning. Our chalet, chuck, did a mix of like 7 songs and we were supposed to be gangsters but then it kind of turned into cholas (female Mexican gangsters) and we looked so funny! Then another group did "I need a hero" from Shrek and it was hilarious! Another group did a dance to “Why does ...

I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but since we have been here, peanut butter goes on everything! I think it is because it is the one food from home that is always available. Anyways today it went in my oatmeal, not bad actually. We had lighting and thunder yesterday but today was actually very warm and nice. We also had 2 birthdays to celebrate today, my roommate Lauren's ...

... over a few years sleep each night to see how many spiders willingly crawl in their mouth? Yeah I think that would be nobody. Someone somewhere just made it all up, if not I want to see some footage of this spider eating business. Anyways maybe Lauren ate it…

Well I am tired and still have 900 words of a paper to write in the morning before lifting and communications class then Zulu class! yay class from 2-8:15 tomorrow, my favorite.