hello hello,

How's it my people! Its been another week so here I am to fill you in. Not a whole lot this time I'm afraid.

I think I left you all on Wednesday so I'll begin with Thursday. Aerin and I went to go see the new movie Australia. The rest of the night was quiet I believe and we were just relaxing with our house mates before our busy weekend.

Friday we made our preperations to leave that evening for L'Abri as soon as the Durban guys arrived for our YDC camp. My favorite part was preparing a roach massacre. You see the roach problem which we though just might be under control was suddenly escalating and we were finding record sized roaches in our house. One was big enough even to make Thirza scream (she has never screamed in SA) as it ran over her foot :P. But we sealed away all our food, shut up the house, and as we left set off three cans of Doom Fogger in various locations around our house. We arrived at L'Abri pretty late in the evening to a house that had no running water. This made for an interesting camp I must say. We had a late dinner and sat around the fire before retiring to bed.

Next day we were up at 8:30 even though there was talk of sleeping in because the new Durban volunteers are insane. By 10:30 we were off on a hike to swing fall fore mentioned in previous posts. We actually spent quite a while down there and then returned for lunch. There was debate about what to do with the afternoon activities and half the durban group ended up dissappearing so the rest of us decided to do some team building activities from our camps. Thirza and lead the group, with some help from a couple L'Abri guys, in the "Web," the swinging tires and the "electric fence." Then we showered and had a Briaa and sat around the fire again.

Sunday we were up early again and headed out for boulder fall which I have also mentioned before. This hike (always an adventure) was more adventureous than anyone could have anticipated. For starters, the river was quite swollen and the current was two or three times as fast. At some points I was well up to my chest in water. There were also parts of the trail flooded or completely blocked by trees and vines which had fallen in the last week or so. Nevertheless, it was a great hike. The Durban guys left right after lunch but we being much more African in PMB took our time and bummed around until 5. We were all beat by the time we got home and pretty much crashed. This was also when we began discovering the first roach corpses.

Yesterday everyone was back to work except for Thirza and I so we went to the Game (a store kind of like Walmart) to buy some extra hangers and then came here to the internet cafe. But the internet was reallly slow so alas, that is why I am here again today. When everyone was home from work I went grocery shopping with Esmeralda and then I came home and started cooking while everyone else moved furniture to make room for our new house mates. The girls really liked to point out the reversal of roles that was taking place. I had no choice but to be a good sport about it. I am of course, greatly outnumbered.

Today I waited around for our two new dutch guys who finally arrived around 1. They are Steven and Mathew and they are really really tall. Aerin who was home early from work and I gave them a tour and then let them settle. I then talked with them for a while and they seem to be pretty cool guys. Finally some fellow males though just when I was really getting used to being the only guy. As much as I am sad to have to split up my L"abri Schedule with them, they seem cool enough.

Well thats about it. I think it was more than I expected but its not that much. Its going to start getting colder here for the next couple days which is a nice break from the heat we've been having. I think I'm going to be walking home in the rain. Oh well, nothing new there. Its either wet or blistering outside.

Bye for now.