Second Morning in Africa

Friday, January 10th, 2014

As of this moment I'm sitting on a picnic bench typing this as the sun is warming my back. And it's only seven in the morning. Yes. That's right. This is my life. And to those who doubt, it really is seven and I woke up voluntarily.

So my trip to get here was quite long. I left Calgary at 2:30 in the afternoon on Monday because my flight was delayed two hours. On Tuesday we all met at the Winnipeg airport at 6:30 A.M. and our flight took off a bit after nine. We flew to Minneapolis and had a four hour layover. We then had an eight hour flight to Amsterdam and arrived around six in the morning proceeding with another layover for a few hours. At around 10 A.M. (Amsterdam time on Wednesday) we began our ten hour flight to Johannesburg, South Africa. It was around 1 A.M. South Africa time on Thursday when we arrived at Heron Bridge Resort Center.

Thursday was a pretty chill day for us. I woke up at 6:45 A.M. and had an amazing hot shower. Then explored for a bit with some of the other early risers. We spent the day laying in the sun, playing soccer and volleyball, swimming in the pool, and keeping hydrated! It was about 27 degrees Celsius. But it was nice because it was a bit cloudy so it wasn't ridiculously hot. In the afternoon we all went to a mall to figure out phone plans and get adapters. We came back for dinner and then watched an amazing warm thundershower and saw the most incredible double rainbow and a beautiful sunset. Then a guy named Joan spoke to us about learning and how we learn. It was nice and short because most of us were falling asleep. I was in bed by nine. Yeah. I  actually seem to be starting a good sleeping schedule here. We will see how long this lasts.

Today I'm not all sure what we are doing, but I'll be working on my tan that's for sure (;