First something I have been meaning to put in a post for a long time. If anyone is ever interested in coming to South Africa you definitely should. There are two really really great things here that make it very easy to travel around relatively cheaply. The first is a great little book called the "Coast to Coast" which has all (or at least a very large number) of the hostels. This makes it very easy to (and total practical) to plan your trip as you go. The second is the Baz Bus. I have never actually used the Baz Bus, but it is a bus that goes from hostel to hostel, there are a bunch of ways that you can buy tickets but one of the most popular is to buy a ticket from Point A to Point B and then you can stop as many places along the way as you want. If you are interested in traveling less cheaply renting a car is very viable option (driving here isn't too bad, but it is on the left), and there are lots of B&Bs everywhere (which are normally really well signed as well). Plus the country is gorgeous and the people are incredible. And if anyone does make a trip down here and you want any inside knowlegde feel free to ask me!
Terry left on Thursday. It is weird to see someone that you have lived with all summer get on a bus knowing they aren't coming back. The Eden students were all singing and there was a lot of hugging and crying going on when he left. And now I have the farm to myself, although I have lots of plans for the weekend and I am going to move in with Suzi next week, so not to worried I am being taken care of.
And now I am off to the Friday night market!!
Friday, August 7, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Only two more weeks
Sorry to everyone for not updating in a while. It seems like there isn't much to write about, but only because I am used to 50 new and exciting things happening every day and now it is only about 15 so it doesn't feel like there is nearly as much to write about. So a few of the more interesting things that have happened lately (in whatever order I think of them):
We started a worm farm at the cottage. There are at least 3 other worm farms just here on the farm, plus many more at Eden (I never know worm farming was so popular). The best part about this for me is that I don't have to walk very far to get rid of my organic waste. Worm farms are made out of everything here: most of the ones on the farm are stacks of old tires and the ones at Eden are mostly old metal drums (the storage kind not the music kind) cut in half, it is a great way to get something productive out of things that would otherwise be sent to the dump, Eden even runs a business selling worms and the juice that they produce.
The Eden businesses are up and running! which means that in addition to being able to get my laundry done there I can also buy vegetables and second hand clothes, and Terry is even getting the holes in his pants patched. My favorite part is the vegetables, they grow great organic vegis at Eden and they are almost always on my table for dinner :)
I only have two more weeks left, and I am trying to ignore the fact that I have to leave soon as much as possible. I was home sick for about 1.5days a couple weeks ago, but I think that has been the only time I have wanted to go back. I have really fallen in love with it here, the people, the places, everything. And to make things worse the last week or so I have really started to connect with a lot of the students. I think the only reason I am going to make it back is because I am really looking forward to the AmeriCorps position I have for the next school year.
There was a drag show at in Karatara last weekend. I though it was great, Terry is scared for life. I was hoping that it was going to be Eden students in drag, but it was all people from George and Knysna, the Eden students were all there though and everyone laughed a lot (as much from the drag queens as from everything else that happened).
My favorite party of the week is the Saturday morning Sedgefield market. It is a great place to get breakfast, bread, fruits, veggies, cheese, yogurt, and local crafts (it is half farmers market half craft market). I wish I could take enough pictures to really show you what it is like tucked back in the forest, but you will have to survive with just this one.
And while I am on the topic of food, one really interesting thing I have noticed about food here is almost all of it comes from South Africa. Even things like Lay's Potato Chips advertise how amazing South African potatoes are, and Heinz Ketchup is 'Made in South Africa'. I am so used to everything in the states (especially fruits and vegetables) coming from far away that this seems both odd and really cool, it is nice to not have to think very hard to buy local.
And now I am off to bed, I have to get up early to drive a bunch of Eden students down to an event tomorrow morning.
We started a worm farm at the cottage. There are at least 3 other worm farms just here on the farm, plus many more at Eden (I never know worm farming was so popular). The best part about this for me is that I don't have to walk very far to get rid of my organic waste. Worm farms are made out of everything here: most of the ones on the farm are stacks of old tires and the ones at Eden are mostly old metal drums (the storage kind not the music kind) cut in half, it is a great way to get something productive out of things that would otherwise be sent to the dump, Eden even runs a business selling worms and the juice that they produce.
The Eden businesses are up and running! which means that in addition to being able to get my laundry done there I can also buy vegetables and second hand clothes, and Terry is even getting the holes in his pants patched. My favorite part is the vegetables, they grow great organic vegis at Eden and they are almost always on my table for dinner :)
I only have two more weeks left, and I am trying to ignore the fact that I have to leave soon as much as possible. I was home sick for about 1.5days a couple weeks ago, but I think that has been the only time I have wanted to go back. I have really fallen in love with it here, the people, the places, everything. And to make things worse the last week or so I have really started to connect with a lot of the students. I think the only reason I am going to make it back is because I am really looking forward to the AmeriCorps position I have for the next school year.
There was a drag show at in Karatara last weekend. I though it was great, Terry is scared for life. I was hoping that it was going to be Eden students in drag, but it was all people from George and Knysna, the Eden students were all there though and everyone laughed a lot (as much from the drag queens as from everything else that happened).
My favorite party of the week is the Saturday morning Sedgefield market. It is a great place to get breakfast, bread, fruits, veggies, cheese, yogurt, and local crafts (it is half farmers market half craft market). I wish I could take enough pictures to really show you what it is like tucked back in the forest, but you will have to survive with just this one.
And while I am on the topic of food, one really interesting thing I have noticed about food here is almost all of it comes from South Africa. Even things like Lay's Potato Chips advertise how amazing South African potatoes are, and Heinz Ketchup is 'Made in South Africa'. I am so used to everything in the states (especially fruits and vegetables) coming from far away that this seems both odd and really cool, it is nice to not have to think very hard to buy local.And now I am off to bed, I have to get up early to drive a bunch of Eden students down to an event tomorrow morning.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Whirlwind Tour of South Africa
I could probably write a whole novel on the adventures of the last two weeks but I only have the patience to write the summary (and a rather short one at that).
Friday night I flew from George to Jo'burg. I was supposed to land roughly an hour before my mom (who came out to travel South Africa with me), but due to a thunderstorm in Detroit she was delayed 24 hours.
I spent Saturday on a tour of Soweto (one of the neighborhood of Jo'burg that shows a great cross section of the South African population - millionaires and township side-by-side) before going to the airport to meet mom.
Sunday mom and I got our act together and headed off towards Kruger. We were worried that I wasn't going to be able to drive, but the age limit here is 21 and so we only had to pay just over $20 for me to be able to drive. We spent Sunday night at Panorama Restcamp, which sits on the edge of a cliff with stunning views. We were planing on camping, but mom had most of the camping gear and somewhere in the 24 hour layover he luggage didn't make it so we stayed in cabin instead.
Monday through Friday we spent in Kruger. It was great! We saw all of the 'Big 5': Elephants, Rhinos, Buffalo, Leopards, and Lions in addition to zebras, giraffes, wildabeest, ostrich, a African wild cat, impala, waterbuck, reedbuck, kudu, nyala, warthogs, hyenas, and black backed jackals, plus dozens of birds, just to name the ones that I can think of at the moment. This was my favorite part of the trip.
Friday night we spent camping outside a hostel in Nelspruit. It was not the best of places to camp (we were probably about 40ft from the bar) but we survived.
Saturday and Sunday we went to Swaziland. We camped at the best place - a hostel in the middle of a wildlife sanctuary. Swaziland was excellent! We saw 4000 year old rock art, hiked on one of the biggest granitic outcrops in the world, sorted through a huge makeshift market of African nik-naks, and met some really great people.
Monday night we made our way to the Drankensbergs - the mountains the separate South Africa and Lesotho (the country entierly contained in South Africa). And spent Tuesday night there as well (although in a slightly different place). They are beautiful mountains, but the practice of burning the land is common there and the air was very very hazy.
Wednesday was driving towards the Wild Coast, we spent that in Port St. Johns. We ended up as very very hippy hostel, and ended up not spending much time there.
Thursday night we stayed at a place in Grahmstown that used to be a jail - very funky. But the real reason we went to Grahmstown is that there is an arts festival going on there. It was EXCELLENT!!! We saw a play: 'Relationshit' which was fabulous, and went to a traditional dance/music show that was amazing! In addition to seeing lots of street performances.
Friday night we spent at a hostel just outside of Addo Elephant Park where we went on Saturday. Compared with Kruger it wasn't as exciting so we decided to go to Storm's River/Tsitsikamma that afternoon.
Tsitsikamma was gorgeous. We saw a bunch of humpedback whales that afternoon and went for a short hike along the coast. But we had to get back to Karatara so we didn't get to spend much time there.
The week in Karatara was a pretty normal work week for me, but this weekend we went over to Cape Town.
Cape town was great! We got to stay at Sandy's (the Eden Campus manager) house which was both in a great place and a very nice house - TONS of thanks to Sandy for letting us stay there. We went to Boulder Beach and saw African Penguins, went to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point and then went into town and the Green Market Square (a craft market in Cape Town). Terry and I had to take the bus back (my mom drove us there, but she turned in ther rental car when she flew out). It wasn't that bad of a bus ride but it was rather long - 8 hours.
All in all it was a great trip, and I got to see a lot of South Africa.
In other news, Terry and I had to give back the car and I didn't manage to take a picture of it before we had to give it back, so no picture.
Enough writing for now, perhaps a movie tonight to relax after all that adventure.
Friday night I flew from George to Jo'burg. I was supposed to land roughly an hour before my mom (who came out to travel South Africa with me), but due to a thunderstorm in Detroit she was delayed 24 hours.
I spent Saturday on a tour of Soweto (one of the neighborhood of Jo'burg that shows a great cross section of the South African population - millionaires and township side-by-side) before going to the airport to meet mom.
Sunday mom and I got our act together and headed off towards Kruger. We were worried that I wasn't going to be able to drive, but the age limit here is 21 and so we only had to pay just over $20 for me to be able to drive. We spent Sunday night at Panorama Restcamp, which sits on the edge of a cliff with stunning views. We were planing on camping, but mom had most of the camping gear and somewhere in the 24 hour layover he luggage didn't make it so we stayed in cabin instead.
Monday through Friday we spent in Kruger. It was great! We saw all of the 'Big 5': Elephants, Rhinos, Buffalo, Leopards, and Lions in addition to zebras, giraffes, wildabeest, ostrich, a African wild cat, impala, waterbuck, reedbuck, kudu, nyala, warthogs, hyenas, and black backed jackals, plus dozens of birds, just to name the ones that I can think of at the moment. This was my favorite part of the trip.
Friday night we spent camping outside a hostel in Nelspruit. It was not the best of places to camp (we were probably about 40ft from the bar) but we survived.
Saturday and Sunday we went to Swaziland. We camped at the best place - a hostel in the middle of a wildlife sanctuary. Swaziland was excellent! We saw 4000 year old rock art, hiked on one of the biggest granitic outcrops in the world, sorted through a huge makeshift market of African nik-naks, and met some really great people.
Monday night we made our way to the Drankensbergs - the mountains the separate South Africa and Lesotho (the country entierly contained in South Africa). And spent Tuesday night there as well (although in a slightly different place). They are beautiful mountains, but the practice of burning the land is common there and the air was very very hazy.
Wednesday was driving towards the Wild Coast, we spent that in Port St. Johns. We ended up as very very hippy hostel, and ended up not spending much time there.
Thursday night we stayed at a place in Grahmstown that used to be a jail - very funky. But the real reason we went to Grahmstown is that there is an arts festival going on there. It was EXCELLENT!!! We saw a play: 'Relationshit' which was fabulous, and went to a traditional dance/music show that was amazing! In addition to seeing lots of street performances.
Friday night we spent at a hostel just outside of Addo Elephant Park where we went on Saturday. Compared with Kruger it wasn't as exciting so we decided to go to Storm's River/Tsitsikamma that afternoon.
Tsitsikamma was gorgeous. We saw a bunch of humpedback whales that afternoon and went for a short hike along the coast. But we had to get back to Karatara so we didn't get to spend much time there.
The week in Karatara was a pretty normal work week for me, but this weekend we went over to Cape Town.
Cape town was great! We got to stay at Sandy's (the Eden Campus manager) house which was both in a great place and a very nice house - TONS of thanks to Sandy for letting us stay there. We went to Boulder Beach and saw African Penguins, went to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point and then went into town and the Green Market Square (a craft market in Cape Town). Terry and I had to take the bus back (my mom drove us there, but she turned in ther rental car when she flew out). It wasn't that bad of a bus ride but it was rather long - 8 hours.
All in all it was a great trip, and I got to see a lot of South Africa.
In other news, Terry and I had to give back the car and I didn't manage to take a picture of it before we had to give it back, so no picture.
Enough writing for now, perhaps a movie tonight to relax after all that adventure.
Friday, June 26, 2009
First, sorry I still don't have any pictures of the car, life has been too busy, too rainy, or too dark, so again you will have to wait till the next post, my apologies.
Second, this will be the last post for a couple weeks, I am going on a two week holiday and doubt I will have time to post (same goes for email etc.)
And now for weekend adventures!
Saturday Terry and I met up with Bethany (a woman that we met at Eden, she has been doing some water education with the students) and went down to the Knysna Heads. They are gorgeous and we had a great time playing on them, picking up shells, and wading in the Indian Ocean.
Sunday I went with Xander, Suzi, Ryan, and Zenthia to a waterfall about a half mile from campus. It (like everything else here) was beautiful. Although unfortunately this picutre has the recently burned section of hill in the background, but that is where everyone was sitting so that is the picture I took.
After the waterfall we went down to Sedgefield and played on the beach for a little while. It was getting really cold as the sun was setting so we didn't stay for long, but hopefully somewhere that we will get to hang out some more.
Other accomplishment this week: I mailed some post cards. Really not that exciting of an accomplishment, but according to the Karatara post office it costs just a little more to send a post card from South Africa to the United States, then from the United States to the United States. I paid 5.10 Rand, or about 63 cents to mail two postcards. (I am not sure that I trust this, I am going to try sending the next ones from a different post office and see how much it costs me).
And now for my random South African observation, I haven't seen a single airplane since I have been here. I have seen a couple of jet trails, but that is it. Only adds to the quiet of the farm (which I am quite enjoying).
Second, this will be the last post for a couple weeks, I am going on a two week holiday and doubt I will have time to post (same goes for email etc.)
And now for weekend adventures!
Saturday Terry and I met up with Bethany (a woman that we met at Eden, she has been doing some water education with the students) and went down to the Knysna Heads. They are gorgeous and we had a great time playing on them, picking up shells, and wading in the Indian Ocean.
Sunday I went with Xander, Suzi, Ryan, and Zenthia to a waterfall about a half mile from campus. It (like everything else here) was beautiful. Although unfortunately this picutre has the recently burned section of hill in the background, but that is where everyone was sitting so that is the picture I took.
After the waterfall we went down to Sedgefield and played on the beach for a little while. It was getting really cold as the sun was setting so we didn't stay for long, but hopefully somewhere that we will get to hang out some more.
Other accomplishment this week: I mailed some post cards. Really not that exciting of an accomplishment, but according to the Karatara post office it costs just a little more to send a post card from South Africa to the United States, then from the United States to the United States. I paid 5.10 Rand, or about 63 cents to mail two postcards. (I am not sure that I trust this, I am going to try sending the next ones from a different post office and see how much it costs me).
And now for my random South African observation, I haven't seen a single airplane since I have been here. I have seen a couple of jet trails, but that is it. Only adds to the quiet of the farm (which I am quite enjoying).
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Good news and Bad news (which isn't as bad now)
So first of all, sorry this post was way later then I wanted it to be, every time I tried to post in the last several days the site wasn't exactly working. But you get a post now.
Before we get to the good and bad news there are kids (baby goats) on the farm!
There are 13 of them at last count (and more on the way). They are adorable and I love watching the prance around. Also I found a chameleon in the garden on Friday. They really do change colors, and they have the coolest eyes (they can move in basically any direction pretty independent of each other).
Friday night Suzi (one of the women that works at Eden Campus, she is the Personal Development teacher) took Terry and I to the Wilderness market. Wilderness is a town near hear and they have an evening market every Friday. We had dinner and met up with some other Eden Campus people as well as Suzi's husband, had dinner and hung out.
And now for the good news and the bad news. We will start with the bad news (that is now not as bad): my camera broke. I have no idea what happened, I went to show Terry pictures of the chameleon on the way to the wilderness market it started up, extended the lens and then stopped, never to go again. I thought it might be the battery, but charging it didn't seem to help, and when I hit the power button the LED indicating it is on will illuminate, however it will only turn off by itself. Apparently getting a camera fixed around here isn't a speedy process, the closest person who will even look at it is in Cape Town (at 5ish hour drive from here). Apparently they will come pick it up but it could take a while before it is fixed and brought back. I went to a camera store to figure all this out, and thought I would just look around at cameras and prices. I ended up splurging and spending about $200 on a pretty nice Pentax point-and-shoot. Not too different from the Nikon Cool-Pix that just broke on me. So there were only a few days where I couldn't take pictures and I made Terry take them for me anyway (thanks Terry). Speaking of Terry and pictures he has posted a bunch and they are available here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2181576&id=63910133&l=e8d975aced
Now that we are done with the bad news, on to the good news!!! Suzi (that took us to the wilderness market) has lent Terry and I a car!!! Which means we are no longer stuck on the farm all the time, and we can get groceries when we need them, and man the possibilities are endless. It is a VW citigolf, really cute car, manual transmission, no power anything including steering (building those arm muscles :) ), but I am in love with it. We haven't taken any pictures of it yet, but there will be one in the next post - somebody yell at me if there isn't.
Today is Youth Day in South Africa. The commemoration of the Soweto riots in 1976 which started because the government decided that all black schools were going to teach in Africaans instead of English. The black students protested this and many were shot in violence with police (please forgive me if any of this is wrong, I am a newbie here). Youth Day is a public holiday (so no school) and I went with many of the Eden Campus students to a rally in Knysna. It ended up being quite the adventure for us to even get there - there were not enough seats on the but that Eden got, but the municipality was supposed to send a bus that came at 8:30am (the Eden one came at 7:30), after waiting around till 10:30 we decided to drive down. We thought there was a rally in Sedgefield, but there was no one there when we got there, so we went to one in Knysna, the first one we went to was just a bunch of kids playing soccer and basketball, so we went to another one. When we got there its location had been changed due to the rain, so we had to drive to yet another place. This was finally the right location but because it had changed places it was delayed and didn't start for another couple hours. And all of this after having awoken at 6am because I thought the bus was leaving Eden at 7am. Anyway once it got started it was mostly dance performances and musical performances, the mayor also came to talk and there was a DJ at one point, and a poet too. A good mix of things, and a mostly enjoyable day minus all the waiting around.
Before we get to the good and bad news there are kids (baby goats) on the farm!
There are 13 of them at last count (and more on the way). They are adorable and I love watching the prance around. Also I found a chameleon in the garden on Friday. They really do change colors, and they have the coolest eyes (they can move in basically any direction pretty independent of each other).
Friday night Suzi (one of the women that works at Eden Campus, she is the Personal Development teacher) took Terry and I to the Wilderness market. Wilderness is a town near hear and they have an evening market every Friday. We had dinner and met up with some other Eden Campus people as well as Suzi's husband, had dinner and hung out.
And now for the good news and the bad news. We will start with the bad news (that is now not as bad): my camera broke. I have no idea what happened, I went to show Terry pictures of the chameleon on the way to the wilderness market it started up, extended the lens and then stopped, never to go again. I thought it might be the battery, but charging it didn't seem to help, and when I hit the power button the LED indicating it is on will illuminate, however it will only turn off by itself. Apparently getting a camera fixed around here isn't a speedy process, the closest person who will even look at it is in Cape Town (at 5ish hour drive from here). Apparently they will come pick it up but it could take a while before it is fixed and brought back. I went to a camera store to figure all this out, and thought I would just look around at cameras and prices. I ended up splurging and spending about $200 on a pretty nice Pentax point-and-shoot. Not too different from the Nikon Cool-Pix that just broke on me. So there were only a few days where I couldn't take pictures and I made Terry take them for me anyway (thanks Terry). Speaking of Terry and pictures he has posted a bunch and they are available here: http://www.facebook.com/album.
Now that we are done with the bad news, on to the good news!!! Suzi (that took us to the wilderness market) has lent Terry and I a car!!! Which means we are no longer stuck on the farm all the time, and we can get groceries when we need them, and man the possibilities are endless. It is a VW citigolf, really cute car, manual transmission, no power anything including steering (building those arm muscles :) ), but I am in love with it. We haven't taken any pictures of it yet, but there will be one in the next post - somebody yell at me if there isn't.
Today is Youth Day in South Africa. The commemoration of the Soweto riots in 1976 which started because the government decided that all black schools were going to teach in Africaans instead of English. The black students protested this and many were shot in violence with police (please forgive me if any of this is wrong, I am a newbie here). Youth Day is a public holiday (so no school) and I went with many of the Eden Campus students to a rally in Knysna. It ended up being quite the adventure for us to even get there - there were not enough seats on the but that Eden got, but the municipality was supposed to send a bus that came at 8:30am (the Eden one came at 7:30), after waiting around till 10:30 we decided to drive down. We thought there was a rally in Sedgefield, but there was no one there when we got there, so we went to one in Knysna, the first one we went to was just a bunch of kids playing soccer and basketball, so we went to another one. When we got there its location had been changed due to the rain, so we had to drive to yet another place. This was finally the right location but because it had changed places it was delayed and didn't start for another couple hours. And all of this after having awoken at 6am because I thought the bus was leaving Eden at 7am. Anyway once it got started it was mostly dance performances and musical performances, the mayor also came to talk and there was a DJ at one point, and a poet too. A good mix of things, and a mostly enjoyable day minus all the waiting around.
Monday, June 8, 2009
A day in the life (week one)
Work days go something like this:
A little after 7: wake up, swear it couldn't be this late since the sun isn't up, finally admit defeat and get out of bed
7:45ish: leave for work. I have a 20 to 30 minute bike ride to Eden Campus as the sun is rising. A very nice ride on a very inefficient bicycle.
8:30 classes at Eden start. I spend my mornings teaching/helping with math and IT. So far this has meant that Jamie (the math and IT teacher) has sent groups of students to work with me on practice problems.
1is: lunch!
From after lunch till around 5 anything is fair game. I have spent some time working one-on-one with Godgiven, who is really interested in math and wants to become a math teacher. I also worked with Terry to help install a solar panel that today we (well Terry actually) got hooked up to the electric fence that surrounds one of the gardens (shown below with the students out watering their assigned patches):
Around 5: being 20 to 30 min bike ride back to Kooboo Berry farm, cook dinner, check email, and head to bed
In other news I did basically nothing all weekend and really enjoyed it. I needed the down time and enjoyed getting to sleep and relax.
A little after 7: wake up, swear it couldn't be this late since the sun isn't up, finally admit defeat and get out of bed
7:45ish: leave for work. I have a 20 to 30 minute bike ride to Eden Campus as the sun is rising. A very nice ride on a very inefficient bicycle.
8:30 classes at Eden start. I spend my mornings teaching/helping with math and IT. So far this has meant that Jamie (the math and IT teacher) has sent groups of students to work with me on practice problems.
1is: lunch!
From after lunch till around 5 anything is fair game. I have spent some time working one-on-one with Godgiven, who is really interested in math and wants to become a math teacher. I also worked with Terry to help install a solar panel that today we (well Terry actually) got hooked up to the electric fence that surrounds one of the gardens (shown below with the students out watering their assigned patches):
Around 5: being 20 to 30 min bike ride back to Kooboo Berry farm, cook dinner, check email, and head to bedIn other news I did basically nothing all weekend and really enjoyed it. I needed the down time and enjoyed getting to sleep and relax.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Life on the Farm
The mountains here can be quite beautiful, this was the view from Yellow wood (were I go to get internet) a couple days ago.
Terry and I went for a walk around a bit of the farm last Sunday. The landscape varies pretty dramatically across the 40 hectare farm. This is from the river about a mile from the cottages.
The farm is mostly what you might find somewhere in America: chickens, horses, donkeys, cattle, goats, but partly something you would only find in Africa: elands, bontebok, and springbok. The animals are mostly free to roam around wherever they please, I often have heard grazing outside my cottage, as demonstrated by the goats:
The cottage I am living in is great. It has a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, another bedroom, and a small entryway. Between the two cottages (the one Terry is living in and the one I am living in) we have just about everything you would expect. We were able to make Quiche for dinner tonight, taking advantage of the free eggs here.
As I was getting home this evening the sunset turned a bright orange, so I turned around a snapped this picture.
Terry and I went for a walk around a bit of the farm last Sunday. The landscape varies pretty dramatically across the 40 hectare farm. This is from the river about a mile from the cottages.
The farm is mostly what you might find somewhere in America: chickens, horses, donkeys, cattle, goats, but partly something you would only find in Africa: elands, bontebok, and springbok. The animals are mostly free to roam around wherever they please, I often have heard grazing outside my cottage, as demonstrated by the goats:
The cottage I am living in is great. It has a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, another bedroom, and a small entryway. Between the two cottages (the one Terry is living in and the one I am living in) we have just about everything you would expect. We were able to make Quiche for dinner tonight, taking advantage of the free eggs here.
As I was getting home this evening the sunset turned a bright orange, so I turned around a snapped this picture.
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