For the last week of the program we went to Boulders Beach. The beach is about an hour train ride away from where I live in Cape Town and it's where the penguins live. We stayed in these beautiful hotel rooms and spent the week talking about what we learned on the program and what we were going to do with everything we've learned. It was such a great way to end the trip and get to see everyone in the program outside of the house before everyone flew home. We spent every day on the beach and journaled and played with the penguins.
Now I'm one of the last people at the house. Rivka and I are staying for an extra week and plan to enjoy the beach, visit the Holocaust memorial, look at museums and visit food places that we love in our neighborhood.
Lots of love and i'll write more soon. Cheers.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Canyoning
Last Sunday I went Canyoning. Canyoning or abseiling, as they call it in South Africa, is where you repel down a mountain. It's what people do after they rock climb up a mountain.
We got up at 6:30 and drove about and hour away to an area called Paarl (wine country). We drove up this windy road, geared up (got in the cutest harnesses with bright orange helmets) and drove to the top of a 450 meter mountain. The people taking us up were great. There were 4 of them, Brett, Cas and two whose names I have forgotten. They fed us breakfast when we were getting geared up and talked us through all of the safety procedures.
We had five abseil sites. The first was about 20 meters and pretty easy, although we landed in about 4 feet of water. The second one was even more fun, about 30 meters down and half way through you started going underneath a waterfall. The last two were the best. The second to last was 50 meters up, which is pretty scary and is was a little slippery, but exhilarating when you got to the bottom. The last one was flat and you could jump off the wall a little bit and get down faster. When we weren't abseiling we were climbing down rocks and walking through little rivers. It was exhausting, but so much fun. We had lunch at the middle of the mountain and beers when we got back to the bottom. We got home around 9 and had been on the mountain almost the whole day.
Lots of love to all of you and sorry I haven't written in so long.
We got up at 6:30 and drove about and hour away to an area called Paarl (wine country). We drove up this windy road, geared up (got in the cutest harnesses with bright orange helmets) and drove to the top of a 450 meter mountain. The people taking us up were great. There were 4 of them, Brett, Cas and two whose names I have forgotten. They fed us breakfast when we were getting geared up and talked us through all of the safety procedures.
We had five abseil sites. The first was about 20 meters and pretty easy, although we landed in about 4 feet of water. The second one was even more fun, about 30 meters down and half way through you started going underneath a waterfall. The last two were the best. The second to last was 50 meters up, which is pretty scary and is was a little slippery, but exhilarating when you got to the bottom. The last one was flat and you could jump off the wall a little bit and get down faster. When we weren't abseiling we were climbing down rocks and walking through little rivers. It was exhausting, but so much fun. We had lunch at the middle of the mountain and beers when we got back to the bottom. We got home around 9 and had been on the mountain almost the whole day.
Lots of love to all of you and sorry I haven't written in so long.
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