8am: Woke up to clucking chickens and mooing cows despite my earplugs
8am - 9am: Glared at Tony as he was sleeping because I was angry that he was able to stay asleep despite the noise and WITHOUT earplugs.
9am: Tried to uplaod pictures onto facebook
9am - 11am: Consumed an entire pot of coffee while yelling at the computer screen and telling Facebook that I would punch it in the face if I knew where it lived because it wouldn't let me uplaod my pictures.
11am: Made another pot of coffee.
11:30am: Googled "poisonous spiders of South Africa" because we found about 15 of these in the computer lab:
Meet the Brown Button Spider, a member of the Widow family, and definitely poisonous.
12am: Started writing this post.
In other news:
We've planned our 16 day Christmas vacation!!!! Yay!!! We've decided to travel up the South Coast and end in Durban. We're staring at a place called the Irie Lodge in Warner Beach (http://www.irielodge.co.za/), moving to the Mantis and Moon in Umzumbe (http://www.mantisandmoon.net/), then going to the Indigo Skate Camp for one night (http://www.indigoskatecamp.co.za/), and ending at Anstey's Backpackers in Durban for the last half of the trip. Words cannot describe our ridiculous amounts of excitement. Plus we're travelling with our dear friends Lauren, Andy, Casandra, and Kevin.
We are also excited because the beginning of our vacation marks the end of Phase 2, aka the Community Integration Phase (but more realistically known as Lockdown). This means we regain our status as human adults capable of making our own informed decisions. We can leave our sites when we want (pretty much), visit friends in other villages and provinces, take weekend trips, etc...!!!
I don't think I really have anything else to say...
I'd like to tell you about how we moved into our new house but that hasn't happened yet so it would be a lie.
We're in the process of making our Christmas cards...so that's exciting.
We found a kid named Obikeng that has a basketball so we're working with him to get the basetball goals lying ON the ground next to our Primary School put INTO the ground.
We've also been elected to the Grade 7 Farewell Party Planning Committee!
AND we want to say CONGRATS!!!! to Laura and Victor on their new baby Macario Doyle Meza-Rulon!!!!! We can't wait to meet him!!!
Ok that's it!Kim (I refuse to put Tony's name on this post because he's sleeping...STILL!)
Do not show my wife those spiders or she'll never come to visit you guys. Your christmas vacation looks like fun make sure to take lots of pictures.
ReplyDeleteOk so I saw the picture of the spider. Yikes!! Are they bigger than they look in the picture? I definitely would freak out if I saw a spider like that. It sounds like you guys will have a good christmas vacation. Wish you both could be here though. Miss you both.
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