Mabibi

I got back from a lovely trip to the beach, about an hour south of Mozambique. I had 4 days with my uncle's family at their campsite. First, I flew from Joburg to Durban to meet up with my cousin Nick (we went to his work's christmas party but I had to borrow clothes from his roommate because I only had my beach clothes.... awkward!) and we drove to Mabibi together. I did some wonderful snorkeling, and I got a respectable sunburn as well! We had a christmas tree, decorated with seashells and a wonderful christmas dinner (cooked by my aunt who is a chef, so I had the best camping food ever!) It was nice to see Nick again, but it was different because usually we're surrounded by all the gang of cousins and this time it was just the two of us. We missed everyone else a lot!!

I spent the night of Christmas Day with my grandmother and aunt, because they didn't have any party for chirstmas, so we had fun popping crackers together. Now I'm staying with my other gran and her boyfriend and I'm having lots of fun! It's almost like getting a new grandad, as all of mine have passed away. Last night night my cousin Johnt and I went to our uncle's house where I met some cousins I hadn't met before, and we talked for a long time with our aunt and uncle, Cherryl and Alan.

Today we went on a hike to Suikerbosrund (Sugar Bush Area) and it was beautiful. I'm somewhat out of shape though! It was just nice to get some sky... even though I live in the bush in Zambia, we don't have the opportunity to go walking around or anything.

Livingstone and Joburg

shoh! so it's been ages since my last post. sorry.
Since I last wrote, school has finished! The girls went home and though
it was sad to say goodbye, we were all excited to have quiet dorms
again. Amy's mom arrived from the State, it was really nice to have a
mother around us again :) We also had the End-of-Year Celebration for
our children's classes. Very few parents came, but we still had fun
presenting. My class told the parents a bit about what they'd learnt
(some history of the Baha'i Faith, as well as concepts such as the
oneness of religion and the betterment of the world) and we performed a
short step dance, to show our unity!
Then we were off to Livingstone to see the Victoria Falls. We had a
great time there. We stayed at a hostel called Fawlty Towers, which was
a great place except for there were bugs in the beds. We went on a game
walk in the Mosi-oa-Tunya national park and we saw a rhino and also we
were almost chased by a herd of buffalo! We went to Livingstone Island
located on top of the falls and we swam in the river there and we were
even suspended by our feet over the actual falls!! see the picture.
Amy, Rae and I also bungee jumped. Amy and I went tandem. I would be
lying if I said it wasn't terrifying. It was. But it was still lots of
fun!
We also met the Baha'i community in Livingstone and did a session of
Ruhi with them, a world-wide sequence of books that each focus on a
different aspect of the Baha'i Faith, such as it's history (the book we
did there), or prayer, or service... It was really wonderful to meet
them and to be able to learn with them. The time we spent studying with
them was very different from what I was used to. Their living room was
very small and cluttered, there were flies everywhere and lizards on
the walls... but it was Africa!
Now I'm in South Africa. I'm staying with my grandma for a few days
before I go to the beach with my uncle's family. I'm having fun
visiting my relatives, today I had lunch with my mom's mom and my dad's
mom... My one gran needs a wheelchair but she didn't bring it with her
to lunch, so she sat in my other gran's walker and was wheeled to the
car by my gran! it was the funniest thing.