Bungeeeeee

Howz it howz it howz it.

thats how they say it here...so.

Big big big weekend here...on saturday we coached hockey in the morning (pic of laura in action) then went in a hired car (named the 'special bus') to Karkloof, northwest of durban. there is a canopy zipline tour there, it was pretty shweet...longest zipline was 180m long and you go pretty fast. laura was quite scared on the first one so being the loving boyfriend i am, i kicked her off the edge. she enjoyed it so i didnt get too much of a telling off. as you can see from the picture we looked like the village people.

The next day we took the spesh bus to Oribi Gorge, a couple hours along the beautiful south coast. We took part in the highest gorge bungee swing in the world. 100m drop, 75m of it free fall into a huuuuge gorge. of course with the excitement came some awesome puns such as "wow, its gorge-ous" and my masterpiece: "lets hope it doesnt go Oribly wrong" ey?...brilliant.

It was amazing. really shitting myself at the top, especially looking over the edge before jumping but it was the best feeling ever rushing toward to ground really fast...even quicker than Usane Bolt (topical).

Sunday was Katie Brammers birthday so we went to Europa, a classy little place near us for a few drinks, nothing too heavy as we were all up early the next day. The girls all went to the other project in Spion Kop to run their sports day. the boys didnt go because we went on that rugby trip. That left the boys to do all the work as usual, so after a nice surf we visited the orphanage. it was just brilliant there. we went at the time when all the kids come back from school and have some leisure time before homework etc. we took a football and a rugby ball and just mucked about with the kids. they dont have any men there at all as all the staff and volunteers are female so they loved us. really felt like father figures for a moment. we play fighted with them WWE style, threw balls about taught them new tricks with a ball...all sorts. they hated when we left and so did we. some really nice kids there that deserve more.

That night we went to a place called "cool runnings" and as the name suggests its full of black bob marley characters listening to reggae. was pretty awesome, very chilled out but again was an early night because we had a talk at 8am.

This was at Marris Stella, the private girls school, we basically talked about uni life in england, finance, opportunities in sport etc. was really funny, lots of banter.

Had the same talk with a different group there at 1pm then rugby coaching at mpumulunga stadium (which makes The Abbey look like the Colosseum) noone turned up so we joined in with the lads who were playing cricket and had a little game of touch rugby (its not how it sounds).

The girls came back on tuesday night so chilled with them all in our room for a bit listening to their couple days away. soudns like it went really well.

Then another 8am start today...this time at Durban High School (private boys school that i played for on friday) and taught tchoukball til 1pm before shooting off to a township for hockey. all went really really well...people love tchouk out here.

and i think thats pretty much it for now, off to cape town on monday so will blog before then and try to do one while im there. might be hard though as its gona be a mental 5 days.

hope the u.k is shweet

jamie

p.s i got the dvd of my bungee