Oooooh, Chimpanzee that, monkey news.

Really eventful couple of days here...

Wednesday - Tchoukball at Marris Stella, went really well again...the head of P.E says she is going to carry on playing it as part of the curriculum so thats pretty shweet.

few hours off after that so hit the beach...played tag american football, was awesome...the surf wasnt too great so gave it a miss.

we then went to deliver a talk to a school...turned up and there was a big cock up witht he organisation of it so we just jumped out of the bus and took half of the school for hockey and the other half doing general fun games...was absolutely immense, lovely kids and they buzzed all over it.

Thursday - Hit the beach as the weather wasnt very good (the surf forecast was really good) When we got there it was raining and cold so naturaly we went and got some surf boards and hit the waves...which were radically totally awesomely gnarley-ly huge. Was so much fun, laura body boarded a bit and i managed to ride my first massive wave standing up (laura was impressed, get in.) Was all fun and games until Macca (Makaela) had her board smash her in the face, making her nose piss blood into the sea which is notorious for shark attacks. luckily it wasnt broken but it was still pouring blood when we left the beach...oh and a bird shat on her head when she was walking back to the bus. good day.

Went to Umlazi to do netball with a group of teens who are better at netball than any of us. session wasnt too great but we did a little bit of tchoukball with them for something different and it went down well...we all decided that were all to write feedback for every other coach and give it to the leader to sort it all out into seperate reviews for each coach. wrote mine this evening, should get it back tomoro...interesting times.

Night out - Damo, a bloke who works at marris stella took us out to Clapham Grand (sounds like an STI doesnt it) turns out its like L.A, glammed up to the max, wasnt the best night ever but the Flunkyball tournament beforehand was ledge.

Friday - Monkey time...we went to a baby monkey sanctuary. was amazing, got to sit inside the cages and have the monkey eat biscuits from your hands, was so cool. the woman who runs it is the south africa equivalent of the crazy cat lady in the simpsons.

Mental afternoon - we were scheduled to play a football match against the sports council...they were late as usual and some bloke came up to our bus asking us what we were going...turns out he is the head of languages at Durban high school and he was having a league match there...he was a couple players down and asked me and Ieuan to play. Was awesome, set up the first goal and scored a penalty to win it 2-1... was a ledge game. One of the players on my team was called Sean Donnelly, an ex south african international who won the confederations cup in 1996. We went back to their school for a post match meal and i was awarded man of the match and given a staff polo shirt. was so cool.

we've now organised a day of tchoukball at the school on wednesday.

got a big weekend planned...canopy zipline tourn tomoro and then orjiby gorge on sunday...abseiling, white water rafting etc.

blog soon,

jamie