December 17, 2004
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memories of South Africa
a year ago, dec. 16th, 2003……………………….
Hey all,
Traveling is picking up now. I’m in a rural villiage in Coffee Bay. People here live in clay huts, with thatched rooves, there’s cows, goats, and sheep, roaming the one road that runs through here. The largest industry is this hostel called Coffee Shack that employs locals as cooks and guides.
Today’s guide took a group of us to check out come amazing cliffs by the ocean, which we later jumped off of into the waves, about 30ft. jumps, completely scary, completely amazing. There is one guy who took off his artificial leg and made the jump too, wow. We also visited some caves that used to hide weopons of the freedom fighters during apartheid. Now it just reaks of guano, or bat shit. Our guide reminded us not to look up, “they’ll shit in your mouth and eyes, they don’t care.” This is my second night here, last night i was up till 2a.m. sitting around a camp fire meeting people from S.A., England, all over. This villiage is in an area of S. Africa called the Transkei, and the people are Khoisa (pronounced Koy-sa) which is also there language. On fri. i will be meeting w/ the head chief, how sweet is that?
Tonight is a P party, you dress up as something p, i’m going as a player, and wearing a soccer jersey. Others are going as pirates, plants, phantom, you name it, and there should be drinking and talking all night.
Been writing every day, thoughts about travel, writing, myself, S. Africa, people, hostels, life, education, you name it. A bunch of people have come up to me, and started talking because they thought i’d make it in my book. Pretty cool.
Well…unfortunately internet is expensive. If any of my immediately family is reading this, I NEED $100 IN MY BANK ACCOUNT. There’s no banks here,and they don’t take credit card, so i need to draw money from my ATM no fri.
