January 18, 2004

• Hey, hope everyone enjoys the pictures.

  
  

  Today I went kayak surfing.  About 10 of us from Outward Bound went down to Buffalo Bay, a quiet little beach with some nice waves.  Of course I’ve never surfed before, but I’ve been practicing a lot w/ the kayak, yesturday went for a 4 hour paddle with a good friend of mine Haig who works here.  Managed to ride some waves in, got knocked around a bit, but was able to roll back up and enjoy some more waves.  A whole lot of fun.

  
  

  Also went drinking at a local shabbeen this weekend.  Walked 2 hours to get there with some of the black staff, and myself and 2 others were the only white people in the town, called Smuttsville, which I soon learned was a township, although it was dark so hard to really see what the houses looked like.  People were really friendly to us though, even said they were happy to see white people there, and wanted us to tell others how friendly they were to us.

  
  

  This week is actually my last week of training before going on course.  Doing a 3-day backpack this week to work on orienteering, first aid, and some other skills.

  
  

  There’s a lot of new staff just arriving.  My next post I will go into a little bit about the history of Outward Bound, and the history of Outward Bound S. Africa, which is only 11 years old, and is a very small but growing organization here in S. Africa.

  
  

  -Dan

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