Hi everyone,

Wow I had a really full-on and exciting weekend! There is so much I could write about but I will try to keep it short.

On Saturday, before breakfast I decided to go for a walk to the wildlife reserve next to the AE centre and I found some zebras which was cool, I got pretty close and took many photos of them. After breakfast I went with the American students to uShaka Marine World in Durban (a bit like Seaworld). It was a very fun day, probably the best day I've had here so far. I patted an iguana, and went through the aquarium where I saw stingrays, sharks, jellyfish and turtles and also watched a dolphin show. The dolphins are so clever and did heaps of tricks like jumping out of the water, waving and dancing to music.

After the show we headed to the waterpark and spent most of the day going down waterslides which was so much fun. One of the guys ripped the back of his bathers on one of the slides (he wasn't wearing speedos underneath) and we were all laughing heaps! There was one slide called 'The Tornado' also called 'the toilet bowl ride'. I went down it three times. I am actually still a bit sore from it. The water was so forceful that when I came out of the tunnel at the end, I was rolling over and doing flips - which made me very popular with the other students! I told them I wasn't doing it intentionally, it was the force of the water. They wanted me to go down the slide and do it again.

I also went down the highest waterslide in the Southern hemisphere, it didn't actually look that tall though, one of the students guessed about four stories high. It was almost like a vertical drop and was over very quickly.

Yesterday I went back to GFLC church which was good, I stayed behind a bit and caught up with some old African friends who I met last year like Carmen and Lunga. In the afternoon Hloni drove me to the country to a chocolate shop and a craft market where I bought some things, like a new wallet, another wristband for myself and some other gifts. In the evening I went to a church called NCF which was a young and trendy church, and predominantly white people. It felt like I was at a concert with electric guitars and very loud music. Because I was a first time visitor, I was treated to tea and chocolate cake which was nice.

My weekend ended by coming home to find a snake trying to slide under the door of my cottage! It was a small red lipped snake and it moved very fast, Hloni tried to catch it with a bucket to stop it getting inside. 

Entrance to uShaka Marine World

I want a pet iguana!

The slide on the very left is the highest waterslide in the Southern
hemisphere (though it probably doesn't look like it)