Cheetahs and Hyenas and Fire, Oh my!
So I got through last week, which didnt end up being so bad. The homesickness is going away slowly, it’s only bad in the morning and at night now. Last week our job was to cut Fire Breaks which means that we were pretty much just doing some landscaping work. Cutting and raking weeds and such around an area that they are going to burn. Then one of the nights we went back and burned all of the piles that we had raked so that when they burn the big plot in the middle the fire wont jump to outside of the burn area. If that makes any sense at all, it’s kind of confusing to explain. Yesterday was a very cool day though. We went to a Cheetah reserve about an hour and a half away from Klipkop and took a three hour tour (go ahead… sing it). We got to drive into the Cheetah and Wild Dog camps so that they were just outside of the vehicle, which was very cool. If I had jumped outside of our cliche safari rides (think Animal Kingdom Safari) then I would have been face to face with a Cheetah. It was pretty amusing how similar it was to the Disney Safari though. There was even a rickety little bridgy thing with green water underneath that we had to cross over AND it felt like it broke right as we drove over it. Oh Disney, how accurate you are. So today it is freeeezing. It’s all cloudy and windy and such and we have to go finish the Fire Breaks after lunch, because this morning we were de-rusting and painting some fence poles. I’m still planning on coming home at the end of this month instead of at the end of July, I think that one month is good for me and it isent like I’m giving up or anything. Two months just seems too long. Anyway, this weekend I think we are actually going to Siweto and that should be quite neat. I’m going to try and update much more frequently, I just tried to stay away from the internet so that I could be a little more unplugged from the normal stuff. I’m gonna go put on a long sleeve shirt now and prepare for the rest of the grass cutting. I hope that everyone is having a really good summer and I promise that as soon as I get back I will put up a bajillion pictures. Have a good one, Thanks for checking up on me!
Would you believe 5 weeks in Africa? You sound more like my Tory. I miss you. I love you. July 1 seems like a good run, and it is a complete answer-”The plan was always for me to return in July!”
where are you ?