Becca’s blog #4
So on thursday night we went out with the south african students to a local bar and we had a blast. they had trivia night and we all divided into teams, and there were nine teams total (we were team america!) We ended up in third place which was pretty good because there were a lot of south african questions that we didn’t know!!
On friday we got up early and got on the bus to go to our farm visit. We stopped in a small town in the mountains to visit a music factory which was actually cool because they played some traditional south african music for us! Then we headed out to the farm and we were still three hours away from it. We had to travel on a dirt road for literally an hour that weaved and rose high and deep into these remote mountains with nothing around!! There were no houses to be seen and no signs of civilization. Then we were about 5 miles away from the farmers and the road was out. Apparently they had bulldozed it that day. The road was impassible and we ended up denting a rim on the van we were in. We had no cell phone service, no one around, and the sun was setting. So we made the safe decision and decided to turn around and drive the 5 hours back to port elizabeth!! So we never made it to the frontier land.
On saturday we caught up on some much needed sleep and never left our rooms. It was nice to lie in bed all day and watch TV and read my harry potter book (i’m almost done by the way i only have three chapters left!!)
Then on sunday we got up early and went to the local craft market that is held every sunday and it was awesome. I bought a ton of gifts for everyone and tried a lot of good traditional food. It is almost like a fair only with all shopping and food and no entertainment. We then went shopping some more along the board walk and had a late afternoon snack. We spent the rest of the day showing each other our gifts and relaxing.
Today we went back to the hospitals and i was at livingstone hospital. When our driver took us inside to be dropped off for the day, there were no other nursing students in the hospital and no one knew we were coming so we had to leave. We did come back a little later and got a 30 min walking tour but that was it.
Tomorrow we go back to clinics and on wednesday we are going to a soup kitchen for an orphanage. Then the rest of the week is off because its a national holiday here for Women’s day. — Becca