Here Comes the Sun

It’s November, and in the Southern Hemisphere that means school’s almost over. Subsequently, that means it’s exam season at Rhodes, and Grahamstown has started to dull down significantly. With students buckling down to get work done, Chida and I escaped back to St Francis where the holiday season is starting to amp up.

On November 3^rd, Chida, Blair, Alex and I formed Team Canada and competed in St Francis’s annual Quadrathlon (kayak, bike, swim, run). We had a bit of a rocky start when Alex fell out of his boat, but managed to recover and place 4^th out of 15 teams in our category. We had a blast, and were pretty impressed by our result since we’d all only started training the week before.

After a night of well-earned celebrations, the next day we went for a walk on the wild side (feel free to sing the song…) where we explored some beautiful tide pools, breathtaking rocky shores, and saw lots of wildlife!

Land tortoise

Every day in South Africa amazes me. One afternoon, Blair, Chida and I walked along the beach (literally two minutes from the apartment) and up into a huge dune system. We played around a bit before heading back toward the apartment. As we walked, several whales swam by – one even held its tail out of the water and wiggled it back and forth as though it was saying hello! It makes me feel so lucky and so incredibly happy to experience things like this every day.