The Easter Weekend came and went quickly for us! I can't believe it's already a week ago as I write this! To give you a short rundown of our weekend, we were joined by a friend of Cliff's from his Nyack days, Lisa, who has been doing an internship in Durban for the past four months. We then did some fun 'South African' activities with our time off.
At the beginning of the weekend, I had my hair braided by a couple of the girls here. The process took about 8 hours from beginning to end (we took lots of breaks!) and wasn't as painful as I expected it to be. You can see the end result for yourself!
On Saturday we went in Refilwe's old combi van to a Lion and Rhino Nature Reserve that is about 15 minutes away from here. We spent the day driving through the reserve, hunting various animals (that were all mostly lazing around in easy to spot places) and disobeying the 'only open your window 33% at all times' rule as we hung out the windows snapping pics. While it wasn't a true 'safari' experience, it was definitely fun to see some African animals actually in Africa for the first time!
Sunday night we had a traditional South African meal: The Braai. The Braai involves cooking a lot of meat over hot coals and then eating said meat. The meat-cooking and food-preparation process always creates natural segregation- the men somehow always end up around the meat, the girls around the salads- and we had a great time with everyone just eating and relaxing (once we couldn't move anymore from eating so much!
At this point, you must be wondering if we've actually done any work lately! The school holidays gave us a bit of an opportunity to get out and explore a bit, but there has also been so much going on here that I haven't had time to fill you in! You can expect a couple more posts soon!
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