Go Sharks!

I went to a Rugby game this evening. I think it might actually be called a Rugby match, but I don't really know just like I didn't really know anything that was going on throughout the whole game. It was quite entertaining nonetheless.

Let me just say that rugby is a brutal sport! It's so intense and it looks so hurtful, but the fans love it and the players are hard core. When I go to Giants games back home there's a good amount of people wearing black and orange, but at the stadium tonight literally everyone was wearing black and white or had a sharks logo on them.

One of my favorite parts about watching games in stadiums is getting to know the people around you. The three people sitting in front of us were Americans working with the peace core in Lesotho, which is a country about two hours away from Durban. It was entertaining to talk to them because they don't have electricity where they are staying and they haven't seen Americans since November. One of the guys said he was really happy to see Americans and he asked what was going on in the world.

The stadium we went to in Durban is right next to the new world cup stadium. I stood right outside the soccer stadium and wished I could stay there until the World Cup. There's an arc going across the top of the stadium and there's a swing attached to it that's supposedly the world's highest swing.

Tomorrow is my last day at God's Family Life Center. I love that church so much and I'm sad to say goodbye to them. I hope I can come back and visit some day.

After church I'm coming back home and I have to pack for this week. The schedule involves going to a safari from Monday to Wednesday and then going to a Zulu Experience trip for the rest of the week. In the safari we're going to drive early in the morning to see animals like zebras, giraffes, and lions and then we're going to camp in the game reserve for two nights. The camp site isn't fenced off so we have to learn a bunch of rules to prepare us in case any animals come close to camp. Reg says that previous semesters have had hyenas running around outside the camp and once an elephant walked right through the camp. There are no lions around the camp because they're in a private reserve that we're going to drive to during the day so we don't have to worry about being attacked in the middle of the night. The Zulu experience is going to be a trip to a Zulu tribe where they still live in huts and they have a tribe chief. We're going to eat traditional Zulu food and experience some of their tribal customs.

After we get back from these two trips we're going to have one last day in Pietermaritzburg. After that day we're going to head off towards Cape Town. There's a lot of traveling in these next two weeks and I probably won't have internet as often as I do now, but I'm excited to experience some more of South Africa. I have to enjoy every bit of it because i know 4 weeks will go by fast and, before I know it, I'll be back in the states again.