Safari?

This past week a lot has happened but at the same time not a lot. On Monday and Tuesday we did not have school but had curriculum planning. The days went fine and there was not too much going on. School started on Wednesday and it was nice to get in the hang of things again. I have a classroom here and three days a week I only ever have one student in it. It feels enormous, it echoes but it is nice to have a room to set up in and spread out to plan in. I stayed here on Saturday, I decided against going back to the mall. For 1 I don’t need anything and would just spend money 2 even though I only have one student I still have to plan just as many lessons. So I stayed and worked then hung around researching stuff to do in the area. It was bitter cold yesterday. It is spring here but many days it has been so cold, because it gets dark so early here we often just watch movies because our rooms are the only warm places to be.
Today a few others and myself went to Albert Falls. Which is about an hour away. It was a little hard to find but we made it. We first ended up at the lake created by the dam. It was a beautiful lake and is a place people go to fish, water ski and go tubing. We thought it would be a good plan to make friends with people who have boats just to go out on the water. Today was warm on the verge of hot. It is a lot like home it can be cold in the morning, hot in the afternoon and cold again at night. So we were pretty happy that today was so beautiful and warm. The park has a game park as well. It does not have the BIG 5 but still Zebras, Giraffes a white rhino and others. Those where the three we really wanted to see. We saw Zebras , monkeys, warthogs, antelope and loads of birds. It was our own safari, since we in a rover it really felt like a safari. Unfortunately the roads where pretty bumpy and Dulce and I where in the back of the rover, we hit a pretty big bump we both bounced and hit our heads on the ceiling of the car a few times. We are both fine, with just a headache, but the rest of the trip we sat on the ground our with our arms pressed to the ceiling so it would not happen again.
We left the park and wanted to find the water falls. We had read on line that it was an hour hike to the falls. Either we hike really fast or we did not find the main falls. It was only about a 5 minute walk and we were there. It was still pretty and nice to see a different part of this area besides the mall. It has been a good week, everyone is starting to get settled in here and come to terms with the fact that we have a six o’clock curfew because of how dark it is and how bad the roads are. We are all finding different ways to entertain ourselves. We have also started to go to bead a lot earlier because of it, it does not help either that we are getting up earlier either because of all the sun in our windows or the rosters who are all around. It feels like camping but with out the campfire and smores.