So in the past couple of days Amanda and I have done a wine taxing and got free wine glasses. The desert wine and the red were my favourites ( Read more... )

So we have had the car for 2 days now. I managed to, on my first day to hit the curb hard enough to scratch the rim. It is harder to drive on the left side of the street then I thought. I have twice tried to turn into the wrong lane. I have remembered though. Being in traffic is easier then being without other cars because the cars on the road tell ( Read more... )

As we all know I love kookie things whilst abroad. And while I may not yet have eaten a giant bug like Peter did in china I have been trying things here. For example, did you know that you can buy flavored milk here in a wide variety of flaavoura? These are, so fR what I have seen, toffee, marshmallow ( these two I have tried. Thy were not as sweet ( Read more... )

I woke up feeling much better. We woke up to something very exciting. There are actual signs of weather. We had clouds outside today. The weather in Welkom was always sunny with no clouds ( Read more... )

I woke up really early today. My tummy is not at all happy with me. There has been a nasty stomach bug through the contingent. It is either that or food poisoning. My vote is on food poisoning as the beef and chicken were fairly luke warm and we did arrive 2 hours later then expected ( Read more... )

The food for life program that our water tanks are being used to support is a program where rural scouts based out of schools and communities plant community food gardens. N the first stage it used for the school and community. In the second stage it is used to sell to raise money for the school and community ( Read more... )

Monday morning I woke up to the sunrise over the african plains it was very beautiful but the winds had picked up and were making me cold. So instead of freezing to death I made myself a really nice wind break out of some extra mattresses. The sleep last night was fantastic. I love sleeping outside. There are basically no bugs and no snakes during ( Read more... )

We had an emotional morning. We had closing with all ofthe many scouts who slept over last night and all of the south Africans who have helped us in the past couple of weeks. Rodger, Lawrence, Gee, Doctor and Tutu were all invested as part of our contingent and given one of our green neckers. We were also invested into the local service team called ( Read more... )

Saturday is a planned special day for the groups in the are to come and be with the canadians. We were given a huge scare when they said upwards of 300 kids would be here. Yikes ( Read more... )

Lawrence came in with bad news about 8:15 this morning. We are not allowed to go to the last school. Police are advising people not to send their kids to school. They are also advising that everyone stays away from schools as they are potentially dangerous. It totally sucks that we have come all this way to nit finish the project. The local scouts ( Read more... )