The third of February, Two-thousand nine.

Well, it feels like it’s been a while since I’ve posted, my bad…unless you don’t like having to read a blog every single day. In that case, the break was for you. Anyway, when I last left I was heading to a pool party, and that I did, and it was fun, and it should have been, and I didn’t get burnt again Mom! Sunday night was the usual ‘Alex is done with his homework while all his friends are working hard.’ The good news is when school is in beautiful South Africa, there’s always someone who will put of homework to have fun. Thinking back on Sunday however, I can’t really think of anything too special that we did…except a crazy battle with the monkeys. This time a small crew of us (3 to be exact) went into the monkey territory to try to shake things up, and that we did. Nothing to big but the war definitely continues.
Yesterday I had my favorite Life and Teachings of Jesus class, followed by History. While I generally enjoy the two because they’re taught by Reg, who’s the man if I haven’t mentioned that yet, it was a tough 4 hours. The heat was everywhere, and when you sit in a class for too long in the heat all you can think to do is fall asleep. In between classes my friend Chad and I were again chasing monkeys and it seemed that they got the best of us as we found ourselves running through some muddy, swampy, grass. So what do you do to wash off? You walk over and wash off in the water as you look over the edge of the 30 foot waterfall that lies right ahead of you (no big deal). Anyway, I was getting out and my sandal fell off so I yelled “Chad my sandal!” Chad lunged to get it, lost his balance, and fell I kid you not, within 2 inches of the edge of the fall. It was the closest thing to death I’ve ever seen…but since he lived it just ended up being really funny! Oh, and I learned my lesson Mom – take your sandals off before you go in the waterfall. That was it for Monday though.
Today was the day to talk about! We had our field trip to a land reserve…and it was AAAAMAZING! Where do I begin. First off, check out facebook pictures if you have facebook, I added 10-15 from the trip. So the place we went to was beautiful…we’re talking an 11 on a scale of 1-10. On the ride in we passed some zebra and giraffes. I hadn’t even exited the bus and I would’ve been fine leaving, and we had another 5 hours there. We did our school thing, had some quiet time, and had an hour and a half to kill, so 10 of us set out on foot through the grasslands of Africa. After about 45 minutes we found ourselves off path trekking through chest high grass with God knows what bugs crawling all over us. Yet, in the middle of “what the eff are we doing out here?” coming out of our mouths we looked up to see 3 zebras walking in the distance. So we followed, and came upon 4 giraffes. was the most magnificent thing I’ve seen yet. Being on foot, next to some of the most beautiful creatures God’s ever created…gives me goose-bumps just thinking about it. It was glorious. All good things have to end though, the good news is that when you’re in South Africa you leave one good thing and good to another! God’s so good! I miss you all, wish you could be here with me!