Short post

Just a quick blurb today, time's short. Dunno when I'll have Internet access again, as later this week we're headed to the really rural parts of South Africa.

Since my last post, we visited three schools: Westville Boys High, Paul Sykes Primary, and Newlands West High. Each is at a differing level of resources. South Africans pay school fees to go to public school. Westville's fee is R20,000 (20,000 Rand a year, or just under $3000). Paul Sykes is R200 (just under $30) and Newlands West is a no-fee school. It's pretty obvious when you see the schools. I tried to post more pictures, but only put up about 15 of the 50 I had to put up, but you can still see the differences.

Saturday we spent in Hluhlwe game park. My camera died when we got there, so I have no pictures of the elephants, rhinos, zebras, monkeys, antelope, buffalo, and giraffes we saw. It was nice to take a day off and relax. Sunday was the St. Lucia Estuary. An estuary is an area where half the time the water is flowing from the lake to the ocean, and half the time it's the other way around. So the water is a mix of fresh and salt water. It's a great place to see hippos, which I did get a few pictures of. On the way back to Durban, we stopped at Dan's (our tour guide) sister's house on the Indian Ocean. (Hey dad, look up John Dunn, the white king of Zululand. That's who he (Dan, that is) is related to, apparently.) The house was amazing, and filled with books, art, and all kinds of odds and ends.

Today we had some lectures on HIV/AIDS. Tomorrow is a few more lectures, and then Wednesday we head to the rural areas of the Eastern Cape province. We're staying in a B&B that's on a farm, so I told Cheryl (who grew up on a farm) that we should go cow tipping. She laughed, and said we'd have to talk later. I'm not really hopeful, but it is funny to know that she's been cow tipping before.

We're in the Eastern Cape for a few days, and then we start travelling down towards Cape Town, with about 5 or 6 stops along the way, which means it'll take us about a week and a half. Dunno when I'll have Internet access next, but if I can, I'm going to try to get back here tomorrow and finish uploading some pictures.