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.