Apr 2008

So I am a bit of an adreniline junkie. I like to engage in activities that may kill me. In the Victoria Falls area, I did a smorgasbord of potentially dangerous acts including Abseiling, Zip Wire, Gorge Swing and my favourite, the bungi jump off the Victoria Falls Bridge. I didn't really hurt myself doing all of these. Although the gorge swing is a bit rough on a very senisitive part of the anatomy and the bouncing from the bungi jump kind of throws your bones and muscles around into new postitions. I lived.

Ok, so as many of you know, I just spent the last two months in really remote town in Tanzania. No TV, radio or internet that takes less than 45 minutes to load a page. So imagine my surprise when I get back to civilization and realize that I walked right through a political crisis. I just went to Zimbabwe. Yes, you heard me. The country where Mugabe currently initiates terror over everyone. I was so out of touch with the world living in Tanzania, that I had no idea what was going on when I went through Zimbabwe. I turn on a tv in Cape Town (oh TV, how I've missed you.) And BOOM! I could have gotten my self beheaded for not watching enough television.

I also went to Zambia, which was quite a trip. The Victoria Falls are awesome. I recommend them to everyone.

Peace out

AC

So I arrived in Cape Town late last night and I am so glad to be out of Tanzania. I had a pretty good experience there, but I really need to be part of the civilized world again. I've said this many of times; when you wash all of your clothes by hand, roosters wake you up every morning, and you have to walk for an hour to get ANYTHING, you really start feeling Amish after a while. Seriously, give me a big black dress and a horse and I'm totally Amish. Today, I celebrated my reintegration into the 21st Century by seeing a movie. I saw 'Vantage Point'. It wasn't very good, but it was nice sitting back and being normal again. I'm starting to feel less cut off from the world as well. But everything in South Africa in english. Which is awesome. Its also much colder than I expected. I don't think we surpassed 20 degrees today. With that and how modern it is, I have a hard time beleiving that I'm still in Africa.

AC