Monday 5/5/2014

On Friday we finished after a long weeks worth of work. We had done so much in just 5 days and no one really wanted to leave for the weekend. We finished all of the blockwork, all the purlins and started cladding the straw bales. In the afternoon the tutors decided to take us to a beautiful waterfall 20mins away. Stav, Danni, B and I decided to put our feet in the water and of course, I tripped and fell in.

On Saturday we visited Kruger National Park. We had to leave at 4:30am so that we could spend as much time as possible in the park. We saw so many different animals (zebras, elephants, monkeys, giraffes, different types of birds, hippos, rhinos, warthogs and many more). The park was absolutely beautiful. It felt so untouched by humanity and all you could hear were the sounds of the animals and the wind. The park itself is as big as Switzerland and goes on as far as the eye can see. Our guide was so interesting and I asked him so many questions. The best part of the day was probably when we had stopped for a break and a monkey jumped into the bus and stole a banana skin. The driver (Dave) chased him out but 5 mins later the monkey was back in the bus and stole Dave’s crisps. Everyone was just laughing so much. The day went by so fast and we were all so sad to leave, I definitely want to go back and hopefully get to see some cats.

Sunday we relaxed. We all just sat by the pool together and recovered from our long week. Afterwards we all ordered pizzas together and chilled in Joe’s room.

Monday was a busy day. First Eve and I put up some cross bracing between trusses, then we painted the window sills different shades of blue and after that we started making window frames. In the evening we all went to a different restaurant called spur about a 10 min walk away from our hotel. The food wasn’t great but the evening was lovely.