Hello!

Hey and Hello!

So here is my first official letter from South Africa! 

In the last month happened so much, that it would be hard for me to tell everything in an E-mail.

I’m trying my best:

When we were in vacation in Hartenbos, Mosselbaai it happened so much.

I decided to write it like in a diary-style and summarize the main stories.

Kango Caves, Ostriches and Camels:

 One day we went to the Kango Caves. They are very big caves, where in stones are “growing”. It was very interesting, because I have never seen so big caves in my whole life. After that we went on a farm to eat something. They also have a few animals like pigs, chicken, dogs, cat’s usw…. But the main attraction was the camels! 😀 We rode on them and my camel tried to bite my host sister in her lag! Luckily the man recognized it early enough to pull the camel away. I only told it my host sister afterwards. So she was not afraid all the time! After we rested and rode on the camels, we visited an ostrich farm. A teacher told us everything about ostriches and showed us small, medium and BIG (!!!) ones. I never thought they were so big and scary. She said: “If they’d attack you, they’d split you up with their crawls!”  Super!!!! And I want(ed) to ride on one! So the last exercise was riding on them. Only I and another woman, out of a group of 15 people, were tough enough to try it. She was the first. The noises she made were terrible and very scary for me, because I was the next. I sat on and the ostrich raced immediately in all directions and everywhere through the paddock. If this wasn’t enough, you can add the fact that there were about twenty other ostriches. I always thought about: “If they’d attack you, they’d split you up with their crawls!” O.O HELP! But I survived and got an ostrich drivers-license, which I can pin up in my room. *YEEEAH*

Rubber duck on the water:
The man whose house was it, we lived in Mosselbaai, told us the first day, that he can take us out with his boat one day. *WOW* We thought, because in front of his house was 7,5 meter long ship or boat. Nearly in the last days should be the final day. I always wanted to go out on the sea with a boat, because he talked about the dolphins and robs! We all took our camera with, who knows what we’re going to see. When we waited for our neighbor in front of their house in the car a shock was overcoming us. Our neighbor, Hugo, rolled a small rubber duck, filled with air and only about 2,5 meters long, out of his garage. *SHOCK* Well… That wasn’t really what we’ve expected. But after a minute we accepted our “luck” and went to Mosselbaai harbor. We got the boat into the water and after 20 minutes we arrived at Robbenisland. We circled around it and directly in front of our boat were about ten robs appearing! AMAZING! I’ve never seen them from so near and to that in nature! After about 20 minutes there was a shark cage diving boat appearing and it stopped next to the rocks. You find here a lot of sharks, because they hunt the robs. They threw fish oil and bloody meat in the water to get a shark to their boat. And really!!! After ten minutes a small, 1,5 meter long, great white shark appeared next to the cage and attacked a rope with meat on it. That was really great, because Great White Sharks are one of my favorite animals and I always wanted to see them, but unfortunately we haven’t got some in Germany. Experience. Not enough (?!). It seems like. We floated about 30 meters away from the big boat. After watching the “baby-shark”, Hugo screamed: “Get in the middle of the boat and don’t lean over! There is a big White one direct UNDER our boat!” And it was really big! About 4 meters! Longer than our boat…..! To our luck there were coming 2 other ones (not smaller, bigger!) in the next minutes. I can remember that I looked down and saw it. The water was clear this day. I could see the grew and white fragments of the sharks skin crystal clear. This was really one of the most exciting things I’ve ever done in my whole life.
I have also visited the Girls-School “Oranje”, the school were my host mother is teaching (it is a black school near a township), the Bloemskou (a big festival with rides and shops), some clubs (:-D) and soooo on…..  
I am maybe flying from the 13th to the 15th of June to Capetown. Some relatives of my host family are living near there. (We regularly visited them when we where in Mosselbaai, so I know them good and they invited my personally! =) ) 

 
Main: 
I really like the school and I joined the hockey team. Today was MY first match and we won 4:0!!!! J
The children are really nice and I get along with them good.
The school uniform isn’t that sexy, but you really have more time in the mornings, because you don’t have to decide what you want to put on. *HAHA*

MY host family is really like a six in lotto. The fit to me perfectly!!!
I really LOVE South Africa. Dis ‘n pragtige land! 
Best Greetings, Janina