After having a nice lie in, we woke up and set off for our morning run. With food so cheap, and being fed a lot we needed a way to avoid coming back a tonne heavier than when we left. Plus running in this heat is helping us get used to the climate.
In yesterday's run, I was exhausted really early on, this time it was Martins turn, meaning that we both haven't properly pushed ourselves yet. Slow and steady, though.
We got back and got changed to get ready for George to take us out to the noon gun. This is basically a cannon that is fired every day at 12pm exactly, and was originally used by the British (who owned South Africa at the time) to help sailors and boatmen to know the time, so they could locate themselves and work out where to go. It's been fired over 65,000 times! They guy that fired it was telling us how they have 2 cannons, in case one of them misfires, or doesn't fire altogether, they can automatically fire the other.
The cannons used to be fired by a man literally lighting the fuse and running to get away from the noise, but now it's all wired up to the national observatory so it's done automatically.
Whatever way it's set off, it was ridiculously loud. We were told it would be loud, but the bang literally made me shake backwards. Those of you that have me on Facebook can see from the video I posted that the camera goes nuts when the bang goes off. It was really interesting all the same, and was nice to go somewhere that isn't really talked about by tourist guides, which is what we wanted, so thank you George.
After coming home and having lunch, we set off to meet Joe and Lourens at the Learning Centre, so we could follow Joe to Drommedaris, where we were just going to be there to have fun and play games with the kids that were there.
On the way, though, we almost got driven into by a taxi on the motorway. We were going at a steady pace, following Joe, when we saw a taxi creeping up next to us on the lane to our left. Out of nowhere, this taxi decides to try and move over into our lane, right where we were. Meaning Martin had to swerve to his right slightly, and thankfully, the car to our right slowed up and managed to let us steady ourselves. As the car on our right was passing by, he gave us a look as if to say "taxis, eh?"
If there's one thing I definitely won't miss from our time here is the roads. Everyone drives where they want and stops where they want, and taxis in particular are the worst of all. I hate them. Thankfully we never have to go in one, now we have the car.
We arrived at Drommedaris, and around 7 kids turned up, which was a nice number to work with. Every week, at Drommedaris, Joe likes to focus specifically on a different life skill each time. Today we were making the kids aware about the importance of washing hands, and keeping hygienic. It may sound like a basic thing, but you'd be surprised as to how little kids know about the importance of hygiene and things like that out here, so it's important that we help them out.
We also played a little game of handball with them too, which they all seemed to have fun playing which was cool, then we said our goodbyes for the week, and headed off to Atlantic Club to see the new Communicare sponsor photo, before heading home.
Martin and I didn't have any food saved for us for the evening, as we didn't fancy it, so we decided to go out for dinner. I'd been craving a curry since I found out my family went out to my favourite Indian restaurant for my sisters birthday, so that was the one place I wanted to go. Sadly, after down town for around 40 minutes, we couldn't see an Indian restaurant that did my favourite dish, a Chicken Korma, so we gave up on the Indian front. Apparently there's very few places here that do a chicken korma, so I'm terrified of having to get through 3 months without having one. It'll be my worst nightmare.
We started to walk back up the road, looking for places to eat, and ended up at a place called Da Vinci's, and oh my word. What a lucky find. It was amazing. The staff were friendly, the food was amazing, the service was quality, it was relatively cheap. It was near enough perfect (except they didn't do chicken kormas..).
I ordered the full rack of ribs, while Martin got the steak, and it's safe to say that it's the first time I can remember, that I've been defeated by a full rack of ribs. They were so large. Martin said it must've been human ribs they were that big. They were delicious aswell so that's 10/10 from me.
I've managed to get all my photos on my iPad so the next couple of posts will be dedicated to photos of the last 2 weeks, before tomorrow's post.
Tomorrow we have a full day planned, starting off with a crèche coming to the Learning Centre, before heading off to Yonicks school, to do a session with the school football team, which should be fun!
Harry
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