Baby There's a Shark in the Water

Another week of crazy is done! Although I don't have as much to say as usual...I need to get out more ;)

Last weekend my roommate Sam & I went bungee jumping at Bloukrans Bridge (look it up in the world record book!). It was about a two hour drive and it was so gorgeous. We drove past Jeffries Bay and all these mountains it was awesome. I actually wasn't that nervous about jumping until we actually got onto the bridge. For some reason I kind of thought that I wasn't living my real life until the jump instructor told me I'd be going first. Sam was so pissed, she had been telling me the whole ride there how she wanted to go first, and now I was going first. Anyway they brought me to the edge and I decided that I wouldn't look over until I was already going because I knew I might chicken out. They gave me the okay to go and I just threw myself over the edge. It was so scary because as soon as your feet leave that platform you realize that theres no going back! I screamed a little bit but it was actually really cool (and peaceful!) to be flying threw the air with no one around. I loved it, I want to do it again before we leave!

After we finished bungee jumping we were dead tired. I'm not sure why but we were. Nothing super interesting happened during the week except that Sam & I volunteered to help out with the swim team! Its been fun, Sam is teaching them some cheers to do at meets while I teach them boring things like technique (it makes me really miss swimming...WEIRD I KNOW).

Also yesterday morning a few of the girls from across the hall (also student teaching & from UA) & I went to a township school and painted one of the classrooms. The kids kept coming in to see what we were up to & they were adorable (facebook pictures!). None of them spoke English and obviously none of us spoke Xhosa but they all wanted to help paint and just be around us. I seriously fell in love with all of them & it makes me want to adopt one when I'm older since I don't want to pop out any children of my own. Anyway there was this one little boy who wanted to wear my sunglasses and take pictures of everything. He actually cried when we left which broke my heart :( I definitely want to go back to see the school again and visit those children!

Nothing much else going on, we tried to go shopping yesterday, but we always forget that the malls here close at 6 :( but hopefully soon we can get some new clothes. I already know that i'll need to ship stuff home (haha already? i know its only been about a month!)

Also wish five of us luck because on monday we are starting a month-long five day a week workout boot camp that I know will kick my ass!