Time is flying by! I cant really remember much which went on in the week, I should really start writing it down! Main things I remember:
-Had to administer first aid on a kid that fell over in a PE lesson because the nurse wasn't in and Shambs had to cover the class. He had just scraped his arm but it was quite sore and he had bruised his elbow-Bruce arrived a little while later after his meeting so he took over luckily (didnt 100% know what i was doing!).
- We had a power cut on Thursday evening from 3.30pm to 10.30pm. Now I used to be envious of my friends who live in villages who get powercuts. I can say now that i am no longer jealous. We get them here about once a week, sometimes they last five minutes sometimes hours (and in this case, 7!!) I had to pack for the boarders trip in the dark using my phone as a torch, I only realised the next day that i actually did bring a torch with me, I had just completely forgotten...such an idiot!
The Weekend:
Boarders Trip!
These occur every year and they normally always go to the Rustenburg area in South Africa. We left Friday lunchtime and camped at the Rustenburg Kloof Resort, really pretty and luckily enough the weather cooled down in the evenings so it was not hot in the tents!! (i even put a jumper on in the evenings-the first time i have worn one in a month!). All the TAs went on the trip and we helped the teachers out with organising the food, making sure everyone had their passports etc. Friday evening we went to get the food for everyone. This was from KFC. These trips are notorious for getting excessive amounts of food and it lived up to its expectations on the first night. Dinner was a 'free loader box' which consisted of a chicken burger, massive portion of chips, another piece of chicken and a portion of mash. I did not eat it all!
Saturday: We had breakfast at Wimpys (mmm so healthy-although my waffle did have 5 slices of banana on so i did try!!) This was Sun City day! Sun City is like a resort, probably in some ways a wannebe Vegas. It has a casino, superbowl, arcades, hotels, crocodile farm, maze and much more! We went for the waterpark but also got entrance to the grounds of Sun City. This waterpark is called 'Valley of the Waves' and was extremely fun. There was even a slide which starts off being less than vertical (aka you are falling). I could not bring myself to go on that, sorry kids! We just went on the other slides, one which was on the pitch black. Lunch was Nandos (at one point we realised one of the kids wasn't there and the teacher said, ah we will find her, needless to say we did and she wasn't in any way worried-they are all so chilled here!)
After lunch we went for a walk round Sun City, we walked through the fancy hotel, casino, saw the golf course and went on a boat ride on the lake which was very chilled. We also bought these amazing chocolates-they are Rolos which are about 2 inches wide and tasted extremely good. This is probably a very boring addition to the blog but i felt like it needed to be shared! We spent the whole day there and left all feeling very happy but tired! For dinner we went to the supermarket with the teacher who decided it was going to be a healthy supper and bought a load of fruit, juice and yoghurts. As you can imagine the students (especially the guys) were not happy!
Sunday: In the morning we all went for an hours walk up to a waterfall which was really pretty and chilled. Then after we got back we had breakfast (cooked breakfast-argh get me something healthy!) and then we went shopping at a mall. Here are three things I learnt while at the mall:
1)it is perfectly acceptable for kids to not wear shoes-many SA kids dont but i dont really understand why as when you see the bottom of their foot as they walk it is completely black! yucky!
2) dummys for babys are known here as pacifiers
3)South Africa has the 2nd highest rate of obesity
So that was my weekend (oh yes and lunch on Sunday was Nandos and dinner was KFC eurgh)
I will leave you with a slightly bizarre story which we still haven't worked out:
We all had to take out stuff out of the tents on Saturday and leave it in the bus to avoid the potential theft. So we pegged our tents down to ensure no gust of wind would then make them blow away (even though it wasnt even remotely windy)
When we returned it was getting dark and Tamara said, urm guys i cant see my tent. So we walk over (me, Tamara, Kelly and Adjoa) with all of us saying oh Im sure its there but it wasnt... I start laughing at the thought of someone stealing the tent as the pegs were still in the ground. Then we realise, about a good 10 meters away there was her tent sort of up against a tree! All very very strange!
Hope you all have a great week. Pictures to follow, if they ever load! x
