Eshowe

wow it seems like ages since my last post!

so we went surfing. i now have a new found respect for world class surfers, because it is so hard! (and doyle, you could tell reef i didn't die from the worlds lagest white shark population) i got up once for a short, but victorious, 2 second ride to shore haha. maybe i'll just stick to boogy boarding. we went to the Billabong outlet, and we should all be sponspered by billabong because of how decked out we are in gear. we enjoyed our last few nights there and then moved onto Mdumbi. a small !Xhosa village along the coast, we stayed in a backpackers. our room had tweleve beds and we all joked that we looked like madeline all lined up in our sleeping bags. the weather was been continuously rainer, so we all just snuggled up in our sleeping bags and listened to the rain, with some classes thrown in of course. we had some talks with the people who ran the backpackers and met some people who worked with TransCape, a microfiniance program out of Mdumbi. we also went for a cultrual walk in the village and got to try on tradtional clothes and some other activites. some mixed feelings about the tour... anyways we also had a run in with some very drunk college boys that included a note thrown in the window at about 10:30.
Dear Girls,
you are all so BEAUTIFUL, we know your teachers are strict but you only live once.
meet us somewhere tonight?
write a response and throw it out the window
love Just, Mat and OC

obviously, we got a few laughs out of that as our teachers read the note and as we plastered our ears to the door to hear what they were saying to them. currently the note is taped to the cieling of our truck :) haha.

now we are in eshowe were we have seen a traditional healing ceremony, had a talk with a woman who runs an aids clinic and the parents arrive tomorrow! i get to see my mommy :):) i'll be home soon, and i won't be in touch the last 7 days, so keep in touch till then! miss you

~allegra