Elephants!
So when I left for South Africa my biggest and most widely spread goal (at least amongst my friends and I) was for me to ride and hopefully become good friends with an elephant. Well… mission freaking accomplished! Yesterday, Kate and I drove about two hours to this place called The Elephant Sanctuary and we got to learn all about the elephants. We got to touch them and hang out with them and learn all about the different parts of the elephant. Then we got to take them for a walk (they held on to our hands with their trunks, it was kind of gross but still cool). And then at the end of the thing we got to ride them which was awesome. It was definetly the highlight. Then on Sunday we went to Soweto which was cool but kind of tedious since we had to get up at 6am to get to the tour on time. It ended up being a driving tour and so was not as cool as we would have hoped it to be. The elephants definetly overshadowed the Soweto tour, although we did learn a lot about the student riots and all the stuff that went down in the 70′s. It was kind of depressing. But Sunday night was the first night of the FIFA Confederation Cup in South Africa which was cool. SA played Iraq but no one scored so that kind of sucked, but USA plays Italy tonight which should be cool. We have to go to some Soil Erosion work today and then were done for the rest of tonight. Have a good week guys, I’ll write again when I can.
Are you going to keep in tough with the elephants? What was He/She’s name? Do you think you’ll be able to see them again. Oh an elephant as a friend…. i’m very excited. I just excited about the whole africa thing in general actually.
Love and miss you.
xxx
elephants schmella fants, where’s the next adventure???