last weekend

Here's a post about this weekend. I know it's Wednesday but better late than never!

Friday night our whole group played action cricket. I’d try to explain the game to you, but I really had no clue what was going on. It was quite entertaining since none of us knew what we were doing. We provided the South Africans with a good laugh. It was fun though. All of us thought we were playing baseball so after we hit the ball we would throw the ball down and run when we were supposed to run with the bat. I was laughing the whole time. It was great.

Saturday was probably the most fun I’ve had since being in SA. Jenna and I went with Jody, the youngest son of our host parents and his girlfriend Candice. We went to a cheetah park where we got to pet adult cheetahs! We then had a picnic at the park, and relaxed in the sun. Later we went to the beach and took pictures. It was such a beautiful beach but sooo windy! It was much too windy to stay. We then went to Joanne’s, my host mother’s daughter’s, house. She has such a beautiful home and lives in a nicer area than my host parents. The house was nicer than many houses I’ve been to in the States. They had satellite tv, a heated pool and everything. We spent the evening there and had bry for dinner. Bry is what they call BBQ and it was delicious. They told us that bry is very popular among South Africans on a Saturday afternoon. Joanne and her husband Wesley have two kids, Luke, who is 7 and Anna who is 5. Joanne’s brother in law and his two girls, Zoe, 8 and Chelea, 7 were also there. After dinner I went inside and played with the kids. I feel like I’m constantly meeting someone new! It was so fun. We were there until like 10. The concept of time is very different here. Jodie told us we were “stopping by” sister’s house for a little while and we stayed for 7 hours. It was really fun though and I didn’t mind staying so long.


Sunday morning we went to Denise’s oldest son’s church. It was an Anglican church, which is very traditional. The service was similar to that of a catholic church. Much more traditional then what I’m used too, but it was good overall. After church we went for lunch at the pier with Denise’s oldest son Jock, his wife and their 10- month old daughter Katherine. She's so cute! Jody and Candice were also there. We had fish and chips and it was so good! It was really fresh and cheap too. We were going to go to the beach after but once again it was too windy. We decided to go to the flea market instead. There wasn’t too much at the market, but Jenna and I were able to get much-needed sunglasses for only 20R (like 3 dollars). After the market we were exhausted. We came home and took a nap. After the nap I spent the afternoon catching up on homework. Later we went to karaoke. It was quite an experience! She told us a week ago that we were going to go to Karaoke on Sunday. In my mind I thought we were going to go to a hole in the wall karaoke bar. I was wrong. We ended up in this really nice sports bar inside of a huge casino. It was apart of huge hotel. Our host mom said it’s where most of the tourists stay. Karaoke was fun, it just wasn’t at all what I was expecting. It was a busy but fun weekend.