A little bit of everything

When I came here I was expecting culture everywhere, surprisingly it is not really true. It's more like a small American town.  I created a small list of what I did this weekend and things I've noticed.

1. Everything smells like a bbq, which is great if you eat meat, if you don't I assume it'd be temptation and frustration all of the time. However it is amazing, I love it.  There is usually a bbq a few times a week called a Braai that you can go to and cook meat, or vegetables or whatever you would like.

2. Directions are like being in a small town.  Yesterday Inge (a lovely girl from Holland, pure dutch, so I'm learning some dutch), Jeremy and I wanted to go to a flea market, Inge had directions, to go up this road and it was right there. It wasn't, we asked 10 different people, including store owners, policemen, and such, and after walking two miles up hill, through some cold wind, and a couple random turns, we found out that the market was cancelled. So we made up for not being able to check out this huge market by buying chocolate fudge cookie milkshakes...it was awesome.

3. There is always something to do.  It is quite quiet here as well though, so it may just be chilling in the sun, or relaxing inside with a book.  I've been taking Afrikaans which is the language they speak down here, and so I'm getting better at reading bits of the newspaper, I found out about a market that was going on Saturday so Jeremy and I had a date morning and went.  These kids set up stalls and sold items that they created, from picture frames, fish in a bottle, cupcakes...lots of cupcakes (don't worry we each ate our fair share) and one stall even sold button rings.  It was a fun cool morning that I really enjoyed.

4. Church here is AWESOME.  We go to Livewire, which is a lot like BASIC back at home, and it is just amazing, the worship the speakers, God is moving down here in South Africa, not only in my life, but in the people here.  It's fantastic and I can't wait to see what happens next.

In other news I've been prepping for some new trips, we are planning another trip to Plettenburg Bay to go to monkey land, and kayak with dolphins, going to a south african farm next weekend to see daily life, a 9 day adventure through South Africa and part of Namibia for Spring Break, and a 4 day trip to cape town in November.  We are going to stay busy. Soon we will be back in the states and Jeremy will be off to Basic training and I will be doing something or another.  Right now I'm applying for two different programs, a Teach English in Georgia (the country) , and a camp adventure program, which is like summer camp except in the spring on a military base in another country.  So, we'll see, it is hard to be up in the air about the future, but I know God has something planned for me, not to mention all the girls trips I have planned in the states with my mom and going down to Florida to hang out with my sis Court and my aunt.
Life is good,
I hope you have a stellar day,
Aj