Xmas was wack!
Trip Start
Aug 26, 2006
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Trip End
Feb 2007
Alldays,
South Africa
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Well my christmas and new year was Wack. On both nights i was tucked up in bed by 10 o'clock bored out of my brain. No drinking games, karaoke etc, and no turkey! For our xmas dinner we had a thing called pookey(i,m sure poo was the key to it), basically guinee fowl and other stuff boiled in a cauldron for 2 days on a fire. The end result looked like poo and puke, and it didnt taste much diffrent. For some reason we had this on xmas eve and opened pressies and stuff at the same time?! Xmas day was just me and the swimming pool as peter and jane just slept most of the day only to get up for dinner, which again was cold "pookey". At what point i told them it was disgusting.
What else have i been upto, well i got 8000v through my arse! Testing the electric fence and couldnt be bothered to drive 6 miles round to the otherside to test it
1. Charles get the rifle out...............
. I decide to just poke my arm through and test the otherside. However in doing so i sat my arse on the trip wire, which is charged at 8000v. Last thing i remembered was trying to get my arm out, which was now bouncing between the other wires!! The next thing, i found myself 10 metres away with a sore arse( i leave the jokes to you's)?! Not sure how long i had been there for or if my heart stopped or i just passed out, however it left a nice charcoal mark across my arse cheeks.haha.I have also now renewed my visa for south africa, and i am still on the reserve until saturday. After this i,m heading to johannesburg and then onto kruger. I,m still here because i was waiting for my new credit card to arrive, and when my tourist visa expired on the way to the border, sure enough my credit card was at the post box! Top marks are awarded to the border point tho. I check out of south africa and ask them what way to botswana as theres no clear road, just jungle. They then point me down this tiny path. I walk for ages and come to river across it i can see the botswanan border point. Just a few minor problems: 1, how do i get across the river, 2, how am i going to get passed the herd of wild elephants that are on the banks and in the river! After staring at the elephants for a while in amazement, i head back to the border point and ask them do they expect me to swim?! There reply " nah we knew you wanted a restamp, so we thought we would wind you up for bit, as you know we are not supposed to let you back in" anyways after a laugh and a joke i get my visa restamped and back to the reserve for a few more days
He sure appreciates his xmas dinner.....
. If only all wind ups where as good as that.Also been out chasing animals on my quad, theres so many babies around at the minute its unbelievable. Everywhere i drive just see loads of baby giraffe, zebra, wildbeest, impala, eland,gemsbok, however no sign of the cheetahs cubs yet. But she has now moved them to a new den so hopefully in the next 2 days i will see them before i leave. As for the other cheetah its still in the enclosure until its ready to be moved elsewhere, otherwise it will start interbreeding with its own babies, causing weak genes and thats one of the reasons the cheetah is endangered!!
Also with Jonas, peter paid for him to go to the best qack in south africa for testing. However since then he hasnt picked up the result and has gone to see a witch doctor. The deal with the which doctor is they basically tell them someone has put a spell on them, not the fact that they actually have Aids?! Apparently this is a really common thing to do for people from the township's. Rather than face the truth and admit what they have, they go to the witch doctor, who tells them its a curse and not Aids. Basically so the person doesnt have to face the shame of having Aids. Which explains why so many people have TB instead of aids, as means of death on there death certificates However they carry on there lives as tho its not there. Which in turn answers the question why Aids is so rife in africa and no amount of money will change that. As the education and facilities to treat are all in place. But people just close there eyes to it and carry on oblivous as though they havent got it, "its a curse"???. I,m still well shocked as Jonas actually was a normal bloke??!! But then again in a country where sex can kill, you got to be careful.......
Anyways people i,m offski, the bags ready to go.
Laters yer know.
martin
