Teremok Lodge Umhlanga Rocks

... a month ago you never met how attached you get to people.  Tomorrow is going to be difficult because each of us will start going our separate ways.  Rocko is looking forward to the last ride on the truck though.  Been a long 53 days on that vehicle and I think that he is looking forward to having his own car back.  We are headed to Cape Town where we are staying at a hostel and should have internet for the three days we are there. <br><br><br>Brett and Robin

... We didn't see Vincent fight this other young bull but when we cam eback at the end of the tour the young bull was nowhere to be seen. Hmmmmm!! Fyi, we were on Lake St. Lucia It is a saltwater lake - the largest in South Africa. It is approx 60km long and 20 km wide at its widest point. It is home to approx 2000 crocodiles, 800 hippo, 2 types of shark including bull sharks, salmon and other fish which I've forgotten. There are 400 endemic ...

... t seen the principal all week as she has been out sick with a very bad flu. Hope she gets better soon. I think that their cook was also out sick - this nursery does normally provide a mid-morning meal of some kind to the children, so they were without their morning meal on Friday. Knowing that for some this could very well be the only consistent food that they receive, I asked Senzo (our driver and a worker for AI who was there with us ...

... nose to chin. I prayed the whole time "Lord, please do not let this little boy decide he wants to smell my hair! And please don't let him wipe his face with his hands and then continue playing with my hair!!" OK, I know this was kind of scornful, but really, I just don't like a face full of cold. In the afternoon, about 5 of us went to Reading Club for Grade 9 at one of the local high schools. UNfortunately, only 2 kids showed up ...

... and took the long (unbeknownst to me or I'd have never agreed!!) long way home! Was about 6 miles in total. I've been fighting a cold or something since Friday so I was pretty wiped out after two long walks and crashed pretty early last night. This morning was back at S'nenhlanhla creche - the nursery where my little Du-lie is (ok, last time I had her name wrong, I thought it was with T and not a D! And it's still prob spelled ...

... each of their favorite photos taken for the week. The rest of the group then votes on the ones we like the best and offer crititques as to why photos are liked or not liked so much. These folks have taken some amazing photos. The photography group also does Conservation and Education. Ok - yesterday, 5 of us went with Theo (one of our drivers) to a tour of his village. On the way there we stopped at a market. Wow!!!! This market was awesome ...

... were none in this national park. Hmmm - wish they'd told me at the beginning of the night so I wouldn't have been keenly looking for 'em for 3 hours!! Also discovered that the Big Dipper cannot be seen from this part of the world! Again....I had been hunting the night skies for the one thing I can ususally find - now I know why I was having such a hard time! lol!! On Wednesday, I spent the morning with 3 other volunteers at a government ...

... with little clipspringers (think tiny deer) hopping around outside our room. We were told there were also baboons but fortunately, they did not make themselves known. Evening game drive started out relatively lame. A few giraffe here, an impala there....then we see a parade of elephants heading to the water hole....and on the other side of the dirt road lie two male lions...chilling in the brush. The elephants were not happy to see us (there ...

... currently help at - will tell the names another time, I need to write them down! What they do at each nursery varies - in one facility they are only allowed to assist with the babies, at another they actually assist with lessons (believe it or not, this week they were given the task of explaining everything to do with water including rivers, dams, etc - to 3 year olds!!!). I think when I do this one next week I will be tasked with ...

Ok - so it's the last day of our holiday and we're all feeling like home is really the place to be! Honestly it's been a great week!Shaun left to go back home for an interview and fly out again straight away for another one in Switzerland of all places! Not sure how it went but I'm sure we'll find out soon! Fiona and Andrew are now together which is still very weird and doesn't make any sense at all! We've had really ...