Day 22!!!

GOOD EVENING!!!

Hold on...I need a drink....

Thats better! Ahhhhh...SPRITE, hast become my salvation out here i can tell you. Sprite and Appletizer. Loverly. It is currently 18:37 out here and is a very lovely evening. Im sat outside with some of the other volunteers, Arthur and Swedish girl have gone out for dinner. The crickets are on form as per usual and i am enjoying nibbling on some billtong which i purchased today at the superspar. Now, let me just talk about the superspar with you for just a few moments. For the past couple of weeks we have been taken to just a regular spar on a monday to get our groceries which has been pleasant and suffice. It has always been well stocked with tomatoes and tomato juice so i have always been happy. However, today we were taken to the SUPERSPAR...well, i didnt know what i was missing. As you walk into the store you are immediately slapped in the face by the sweet smell of the dairy section. There are cakes galore and not just your normal sponge or muffin but massive cakes covered in all different flavoured frosting, 10 inches thick, and hand made chocolates and coockies with neatly placed cherries on and one portion of chocolate caramel cake is about the size of my head. Granted i have a small head but still, i was amazed...gosh this billtong is hot! WOWZA! So anyway, myself and Camille bought a nice array of sweet goodies which we shared with the others when we got back with a nice cup of tea. Unfortnately the selection pack of mutlicoloured cupcakes which we got most excited about got smashed up in the car so i had to scrape the frosting back on top, so they didnt look so good by the time of consumption, however they still tasted good. And who knew that coffee and strawberry flavoured could taste so good together? Even if by accident!

SO that was just the dairy section, then there was the fruit section and then the hot biffet section which had mash potato and creamed spinach!!! OMG!!! Lush! But i wont talk to you about food all night as thats not what i am here for...OBVS!

Sorry i havent been able to uploas any pictures for you this weekend on facebook, i did not go back to the hotel on Sunday, which was yesterday. Instead i had a very nice lie in which i really appreciated! I got up around 10am and drank almost a carton of tomato juice which made me feel a bit sick so i went back to bed for an hour! hahahaha...oh dear! Then i got ready and myself and Evelyn walked from the cottage to the Portugese Restaurant which took us about 50 minutes. It was mostly uphill and we did have to walk past about 4 properties which had killer dogs waiting outside for us which was a bit scary, luckily there were electric fences between us and the beasts so we remained safe. The funniest was the 2 Yorkshire Terriers who tried to have a go, one sporting a bright red collar! Ha, its always the small ones hey! The alasations on the other hand did look like they might rip us to pieced if we gave them half a chance. After all of the barking we had a very pleasnt walk in the sunshine to the restaurant. We were a bit sweaty when we arrived, but 2 cans of appletize later we were relaxed and it wasnt long until the others arrived to join us who has booked a lift. I was glad of the exercise although my feet and ankles didnt get very tanned which vexed me somewhat.

We stayed at the restaurant for a good few hours and left as the evening started to set in, back at the cottage we had a good chat outside and shared stories. I got my new playing cards out but for some reason nobody wanted to play with me! So i continues solo with a game of solitaire for which Arthur began to call me an old lady! But i dont care because i heard him farting in his sleep the other night! hahahaha. I had the pleasure of telling him so as well! Much to the pleasure of the other volunteers.

Last night the heavens opened, a true african storm, the wind was so strong i am surprised that the cottage wasnt swept away and the the thunder continued all night. It really sounded like some god upstairs decided to have a laugh and switch on a giant tap and let the water just pour down in one huge gush! I couldnt help but feel very sorry for the baby cubs. When we woke this morning the wind had calmed down but the rain was still pouring, we were all soaked by the time we got to the bridge let alone the farm. I went with Quentin to let the cubs out of their house and they were sooooooo cute! Duke pounced on Quentin as soon as he opened the upper gate and following behind him was Tyson who leapt on me with his paws either side of my neck, so i gave him a good cuddle and spin and let him scoot off for his morning piddle. With the rain it didnt take them long to hey soaked and they look so kitten like when they are wet. I think because it was so cool for a change they had lots of energy and did lots of running around. There was a jolly large runny cub poop in the house which myself, Camille and Evelyn had to clear up just before we fed them, but not before Sparky and Dhubba had had their fun of standing in it and walking the pooey footprints around the rest of the house! Not appreciated! Howver, they have the most adorable faced that i just laugh whenever they look at me so decided that they were smelly hyenas and instinct is greater than domestic decorum. So that was that and we managed to clean the house and get them all fed without much trouble. We were just absolutely drenched wet.

So, after all of that it was decided that with the rain as bad as it was we couldnt really do the fence checks which is what we were supposed to do this morning and instead headed off to the superspar earlier than usual. A very nice shopping experience indeed despite the fact that after moaning about the fact that we hadnt been taken to this particular spar before which is in a complex with more shops, Swedish girl decided that she would bugger off for a good hour without telling anyone where she was going. We had to wait for her to show up at which point she had several shopping bags including what  looked like 2 pairs of shoes looking very pleased with herself. After explaining that we had been looking and waiting for her we piled into the van all ready to leave. We were all shivering by this point and Quentin had to get back to work...but hold on! Where was Swedish girl now??? OH! Silly me, she is outside the van having a cigarette whilst we all wait for her a little bit more...bloody cheek.

AND whilst im on a rant let me tell you this, we get back to the cottage and the kitchen is in a right bloody mess and the fridge is full of out of date food that past volunteers have left so we all decide to have a jolly good clear out, so we all decide that anything unaccounted for or out of date goes in the bin. Well, as soon as we all start to muck in Swedish disappears outside with a grapetize, packet of cookies and another fag! Which is rude enough BUT then she came and told me off rather aggressively for throwing away her ham!!!...WELL...I CAN TELL YOU THIS! SHE WONT BE BLOODY SPEAKING TO ME LIKE THAT AGAIN!!!!!!!! I had a private cheer from the other volunteers later on.

And on that note, i bid you a good night. Hopefully i will have more animal stories for you tomorrow, which is, after all what this is all about. :)

PS Erika was kept indoors this morning because of the rain so i haven't seen her today! :(