May 31st

May 31st

The History Channel Gone Wrong

We started off the morning with a very early Rotary Meeting – arrival by 6:45 am. Of course we went to the place that the meeting was supposed to be at and were told that it had moved to another venue. Good thing traffic is nothing like Northern Virginia of we would have never made it. It was a lovely breakfast and I had a mouthful when we were told it was time to present – and that we only had 7 minutes for all of us. So that was probably the fastest I’ve ever gone through my power point this trip.

After breakfast one of the Rotarians has arranged to pick up us and take a tour of Pretoria. It’s was lovely except his knowledge of history is so vast what we could have done in an hour took us into the afternoon.

We started out at a square in the middle of the town where there is a monument to Paul Kruger. There also happens to be a whole heck of a lot of pigeons near the monument. Reminder me of the scene from Mary Poppins. So as we’re trying to listen to the history and dodge the pigeons one of the decided to get to know me and flew into my head. I think a few of the girls laughed and other shrieked. I decided I was done with the monument at the point.

From there we went to a monument that I wish I could spell the name for you but I cant. Something like Vooktrecker. It was the ”trek” of the settlers and native through South Africa. There was a whole lot of trying to do peaceful negotiations and war and negotiations and “traders” and such. It would have been great had we not been there 2.5 hours….

After lunch we had a nice relaxing evening at one of the host family’s house and went out and had cake for dinner. I know – but we were all stuffed from lunch and just felt like a little something… Now I’m going to try and tackle the packing and see how everything is going to fit in my suitcase….

Thursday Evening Eish!!!

-Stop signs in Africa are optional
-I learned that pigeons like my hair
-I love seeing sights and monuments but like to do it at my own pace (not the History Channel in-depth pace).
-I look forward to not being asked 500 times a day if I want coffee or tea (you’d be amazed at the looks I get when I say I don’t drink coffee).
-I miss Cherrios.
-I miss skim milk.
-I can’t wait to sleep in my own bed.
-I can’t wait to use my own shower.
-I can’t wait to see everyone!!!!