21 More Days!!!!

Ok!! So you know when you think about something for so long and then when it approaches you just want to run the other way. I mean ugh I really can't even imagine leaving here right now...I just really cant. I mean I want to go home please believe but I just can not imagine how "going home" is going to feel, how it will work, how I will handle it. This may sound wierd but I know at least Lexi Gorshe and Aleschia Johnson understands me lol. You start to feel like everything is life now, its not you in Africa anymore...its just life. So I cant fathom anything different. I love it here. But I cant wait to see my family.

Robben Island

We had to ride the ferry over to Robben Island

Nelson Mandela's Jail Cell!!!! YEA WOW!

 



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This is the bed that many of the prisoners had to sleep on.



 Visiting Nelson Mandela's jail cell was absolutely the most purposeful part of the Capetown roadtrip.

 I had always dreamed of going and experiencing it and it was so special to actually get a chance to do so. I learned so much during the tour of Robben Island: 

The island was beautiful!

This is the ferry we took over to the island!



Knysna Township

On the way to Capetown we visited local townships in Knysna. Townships are settlements that are separated from the rest of society, not necessarily by distance because there are may townships very close to richer communities. But they are set apart financially. The townships are broken down into two types. Informal townships and formal townships. The formal townships are the townships where you are responsible for the producing of your own home and paying for your land. In the Informal townships the citizens are given homes and given land they simply have to buy prepaid water and electricity. Some areas have water in their homes while others have electricity, and of course some have neither.

Its always refreshing and eye opening to get our of the rich town that I currently live in. The people for the most part were very welcoming and the children couldnt have been more fun.

 

Capetown experience coming soon.........

Area Map

This is the South Africa and the surrounding countries. This is to give you an idea of where I am the next few weeks I will be traveling a lot. Im here right at the tip PORT ELIZABETH!

Road Trip to Tsisikamma

 

The road trip was so much fun. We stayed in a hostel which is like a dorm. Its a room with lots of beds and you could sleep there with anyone else who is staying there that night. Whether you know them or not. And you all share a bathroom. But fortunately we didn't have any strangers join us. We stayed at a place called Tube n Axe. It was a very cute set up.We had a night around a camp fire and all. We stayed in Tsisikamma for two nights just exploring around, anything but being back in Annie's Cove.

Tube n Axe Cabin

Lexi,Neelu,Aleschia....forever travel buddies.lol

Bungee Jumping

 Bungee jumping was the most liberating experience of my life. I can't even start to describe the feeling and be able to do it justice. The is the highest bungee jump in the world! Even now I can't believe I actually did it. I didn't stop smiling that entire day. It makes you feel limitless and that's a very very exciting feeling. I have never been one to exercise a spirit of fear...I'm sure my mom doesn't find that to be a good thing. But fear can hold you back from way too much in life...you have to be fearless to actually live!

5,4,3,2,1 BUNGEE



This is when I started to regret jumping.