Good evening from South Africa! Here is a blog post about last week...
Monday 29th July - Sunday 4th August 2019.
Last Monday me and Scott decided to spend the afternoon on the kayaks. We spent a few hours out on the water and paddled to the end of the vlei. Lots of water birds were seen and even a fish eagle! On Tuesday we walked into Sedgefield where we had lunch. We also stopped at PicknPay where we bought food to cook with over the next few days. On Wednesday and Thursday I spent the afternoons in the garden OB has, doing some weeding and general tidying up.
Friday was my birthday so Scott and I baked cupcakes! After fighting with the oven we finally got it working. We also made fajitas for dinner and they were epic!!! We headed to the market as usual on Saturday morning and on Sunday I spent some more time in the garden before Scott and I cooked up some lamb chops, veg and some snazzy potato slices for our dinner.
I CANNOT believe that this time next week I'll be in Scotland. The year has gone so so so fast and I really wish I could stay longer.
I'll save all the 'I've learned this...' and all the 'I wasn't expecting...' for next week's blog but I thought I'd add onto this one my 'Top 5' memorable moments from the past year at Outward Bound...
I'll save all the 'I've learned this...' and all the 'I wasn't expecting...' for next week's blog but I thought I'd add onto this one my 'Top 5' memorable moments from the past year at Outward Bound...
1. Instructing a course - this was such a cool experience to have and I'm so glad I got given the chance to do it.
2. Hopetown - now although everyone got ill during our stay here, I loved (apart from the ill days) being here! Our base (and the monkeys) was very nice, the white water rafting an experience for sure and the bushmen carvings were also very cool.
3. Citrusdal #1 - the first time we all went to Citrusdal was definitely something I'll remember, for good parts and the not so good. Having those days out in the mountains searching for the perfect abseil and rock climbing sites, seeing bushmen paintings and camping out too was great. Although the long days and VERY hot temperatures definitely took their toll on everyone I have so many funny/fond memories from there.
4. LOC reassessments - so when we did the LOC reassessments a few months ago I absolutely loved the afternoon we all went out on the raft. Capsizing it and climbing back on while other people try to throw you off again was definitely just general OB craziness!
5. Kayaking to the mouth - during a training week way back in February, we spent an afternoon in the sea kayaks paddling to the mouth. Once we got there we all spent a good hour or so in the sea swimming and mucking about before kayaking back. Definitely the best kind of way to spend an afternoon at work!
Obviously there is way more amazing things I've done and loved while volunteering here at OB but these are definitely some of the stand out moments for me.
I'm also going to put below a link to a YouTube video. This was created by a primary school that came to OB. This was the last course I did here and the video is amazing so you should check it out!
Enjoy the photos,
Rachel :)
Part of the garden before I started weeding
Another tortoise picture
I haven't took any of the garden once I was finished so here's another weed infested picture... there are vegetables in there somewhere!
Cupcakes before we iced them
A picture of the sunset
Our presentation might not look good but the food was!!
Slightly better presentation here and definitely the best meal we cooked
The fish eagle that kept flying over us
We have our personal favourite kayaks we ALWAYS use
Though it was sunny it was quite windy!
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