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.

hunting..and climbing mountains.

We were in the desert!  A real cactus.

Besbok we hunted for...one of the guys actually shot it.

Lord Jesus I climbed this thing!

Saturday with the Afrikaners

holding up the net to catch the bushbok as they rammed into us

wrestling the animal we caught with the net

loading the rifle getting ready to shoot.

I was number eight! And this was very far away.

Weekend with Afrikaners-Friday!

So Friday we started off for the mountains to live a weekend with the Afrikaans! For all of you that don’t know Afrikaners are an Afrikaans-speaking ethnic group in Southern Africa. They are mainly of Dutch descent augmented with French and German ancestry, and their native tongue is Afrikaans, a Germanic language which derives from Dutch. Nevertheless we went to a frontier farm about 2 hours outside of Port Elizabeth. This area was surrounded by the Winterburg mountains.  It was beautiful and a great experience…just the for weekend.

I caught this sheep!

We castrated male sheep...and then ate them.(please no judging)

Feeding some kind of wild animal...sorry they are start to sound the same.

We had to drink straight from the utter...yea I dont have good aim.

That face is me afraid the one in front was going to kick me in the face.

Feelings of HOMESICKNESS

I thought that maybe this feeling would never come seeing how I did not experience this at the beginning of my journey here. However it is now, now that I am almost 75% completed with it that I am feeling the desire to just be at home more than ever. My God how I long to just be at home, I don’t care if that means being cramped in a room with my little sister. I don’t care if that means I wont have my own “SPACE”. I’m telling you that is the least of my worries from now on. It almost seems petty that I even dwelled on that for so long. I mean being here has given me a new perspective on it all and I no longer have to have things my way to be happy. I will be happy just be know that I have atleast one reason to be. That’s beautiful right? Happiness because you can name at least one thing to be happy about. That’s what it is all about right? Who says that you deserve to be allocated a certain amount of happiness before you can indeed express it? That’s complete crap. God didn’t promise us that we would get what we thought we deserved..or even get ANYTHING but eternal life right? Besided happiness is relative. I see that now. What I thought didn’t affect me at all ,now would give me immense happiness just to think about it. hmmm missing home but staying positive bc I cant wait to feel that happiness!


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You won't believe this. Sex and Aids.

Warning:This may not be child appropriate.

I was class and the students started to discuss aids and sex because we were discussing health psychology.
This is what stuck out to me:

• Condoms give you maggets
• If you have sex once with a condom it will push the aids away
• Its ok to put a condom on before you leave home for the day
• Sex with a virgin cures aids. (which is the cause of many rapes)
• Condoms are deliberatly infected by foreigners
• Only drug users and homesexuals get aids.

This really really concerned me so these are some interesting facts.

• The World Health Organization claims that 10 million HIV- positive Africans are responsible for 300,000 cases of AIDS reported since 1981.
•  Rwanda, Uganda, Zaire and Kenya -- the so-called “AIDS belt”
• HIV tests are notoriously unreliable in Africa. A 1994 study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases concluded that HIV tests were useless in central Africa, where the microbes responsible for tuberculosis, malaria and leprosy were so prevalent that they registered over 70 percent false positive results.

EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION!!

Highlight of the RED LOCATION

Steve Biko's mission.

An innocent child shot during apartheid.

Stephen Biko and a depiction of his death.

Nelson Mandela's Day Planer

Walkie Talkie Chicken-random post

Ok!  I like to do an even mix of serious and just plain crazy blogs so...This is just a funny little tid bit! Here they have every type of chip you could possibly imagine!! You go into the store and they have isles dedicated to chip flavors. You can get ANYTHING! I'm sorry but if you are a chip lover like I am...this is heaven right?

This is the funniest name I have seen so far. But they are actually really good .

Tribute to STEVE BIKO

There Martin Luther King is Steve Biko! Steve Biko was an African Activist during the apartheid. I gauranteee many of you have never heard of this guy. He was right along with Nelson Mandela During apartheid but instead of locking Biko up at Robbin Island, he was hung and brutally killed. Biko did more than just attempt to fight for rights he was apart of a movement of AFRICANISM.  He promoted black consciousness. I'm not going to do a biography here so I decided to let him speak for himself. Here are some qouotes taken from interviews and speeches.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.


Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
Black man, you are on your own.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.