Blogs from Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 6

Ce soir peu de mots, simplement un superbe coucher de soleil sur Annies Cove pendant l'été ... juste magique ! (photos sans aucun trucage, garantie)... read more

Déjà 9 mois que nous sommes ici … ouhaou. Cela est passé si vite et si lentement à la fois. Tant de choses se sont déroulées. En attendant, je pensais être plus sérieuse pour la mise à jour de ce blog, et puis le temps passant, tellement de choses à raconter … Et quelques événements récents m’ont pas mal remué, et je me suis dit qu’après tout, même s’il ne restait que 2 mois, il n’était pas trop tard pour vous faire partager un peu de ce qui a constitué notre quotidien ici. Et finalement avec le recul, cela aide à synthétiser. Alors voici le premier poste, qui je l’espère sera suivit de quelques autres jusqu’à notre retour en France, pour vous faire découvrir ce merveilleux pays qu’est l’Afrique du Sud. Faites bien attention à vous, ... read more

This weekend turned out to be quite the African adventure. We boarded the BazBus at 6:45 on Friday morning, still in the dark and all ready for a long (but we didn’t realize just how long) trip. I thought that maybe I would sleep on the bus but the scenery was so beautiful I was perfectly content just gazing out the window. There were two boys on the bus from Britain who were just touring South Africa for about 6 months, an older man from Australia, and then a very strange woman whose picture I will include just for laughs. I’m not really sure what she was doing but I think that she had all the clothes that she owned, on! The BazBus drives up and down the coast of South Africa all the way from ... read more

These past couple of weekends have been pretty low key. The next month is about to get hectic with travel though so I guess it was nice to have some stress free time. Friday, February 19th a couple of my roommates and I headed in town to a professional Cricket game. Cricket is a very traditional South African game of bowls, overs, hits, runs, wickets, and outs. I’m not really even sure how to go about explaining it, you really have to watch and be explained the game at the same time. The traditional game lasts for hours. They play for a few hours in the morning, stop for lunch, and then continue play again in the afternoon…crazy. There is also a 5 day game where one game is played from about 10 in the morning ... read more

Absent on Thursday Although I dosed myself up with various things - got some Vick and inhaled it and put it on my -I still woke up with no voice at all this morning so could hardly go in and do oral work with six groups of Grade 2. I am trying resting it for today in the hope it will come back. It is a rather essential requisite for what I am doing. I went out and got a local paper - the hotel don’t get them for you and you have to grab one of the few that come in and we are always in a rush to be ready for a 7.15 pick up. There were various meetings and visits from the education off ice in our first week and “seven hour teaching ... read more