iNingizimu Afrika week 3!!

It’s been a crazy week this past week in the country of South Africa.  I have already failed on writing in this blog once a week but I am trying.  I just seem to never find time for it.  This last weekend we went through Umzinto, which is a town about an hour and a half away from our campus.  This was a town in which there were absolutely no white people and we were able to walk around for a couple of hours and go to shops and talk to some people.  The feel of the town was very different from what I was used to for example security guards with shotguns over their shoulders, power going completely out when we were in the back of a store, and an extreme crowdedness.  There were people everywhere.  I loved this experience and the chance to actually go out and talk with people and be in a market.  After this we drove to the beach and I had my first experience seeing the Indian Ocean.  The water wasn’t as warm as I thought it was going to be which was kind of a disappointment, it was about the same temperature as at a California beach, but it was so rough and there were a lot of currents.  It felt so good to swim in the water though and I can now say I have swum in 3 of the 4 oceans, now just the Arctic awaits! It was an awesome day and we finished it off by having a barbeque on the beach and playing soccer with some of the Indian people there.  Sunday was a little bit of a damper to everyone’s spirits because in church there was an elderly man who collapsed during the service and ended up passing away. It was a hard thing to see and all our prayers are going out to his family.  This week has been filled with homework and projects and I actually am feeling a little more like I am in school now.  But every weekend that feeling goes away as we get to go out and explore this great country.  This weekend we are going to be hiking in the Drakensburg Mountains, which are amazing. So that is pretty much what has been happening in the last week and I can’t wait for all the other adventures we are going to have as I just signed up this week for a Rugby game, water park, zip lining, bungee jumping, and caving!