A week in Guateng

When Nico had left the country, my normal life started again. It were the final days of term one, so it was pretty hectic at school. Students stressed because of the tests and the teachers were stressed because of all the marking. Me and the other two GAP students had to capture the marks, we managed to finish it in two days, but it was a hell of a job. That week and the weeks before I was also often in Afrikaans class, due to the fact a teacher was ill and I took over quite a lot lessons.

The last day before the holiday started, we had a big event at the school, `The night of the Stars`. A sort of Fancy fair. Me and the other 2 Gaps were working behind the Bar, despite the bad weather and the long shift (from 14.30 till 2.00) was it pretty decent and quite manageable.
Guateng

The 17th of March me and Fearghas left in the early morning to the airport, destination Johannesburg. We arrived at 10.20 in the morning, went to my cousin’s house, who was fetching us from the airport. Around 2 o’ clock we headed off to Soccer city (world cup final Stadium) to see the Feyenoord – Ajax of South Africa, Orlando Pirates versus Kaizer Chiefs. The traffic to the stadium was hectic, people dancing on the highway, people who pie on the side of the road and everywhere cars. Luckily we found a road nobody took and got there eventually quite quickly. The game and the stadium where amazing, unfortunately it was 3-2 to Pirates, but it was a great afternoon/ evening. After the match I got almost robbed by a idiot who first was first pretending to do a sort of greet with me, but actually he was trying to get my valuables out of my pocket. I didn’t realise it, but my cousin saved the day to push that guy away! After the match we went to a Dutch shop, where I got some Schuddebuikjes, gestampte muisjes en Chocolade vlokken. We also tasted apparently the world’s best Brandy, I doubt it! From the store we went to one of my other cousin’s where we had a lovely braai!

The Next day we headed off to Sun City, the Las Vegas from South Africa. We were extremely spoiled, we stayed there for 3 nights. Sun City is amazing, you can do so many things, we went on a safari, a quad safari, we went to the Valley of the waves (a fake beach) and we went on jet ski’s. Everything was awesome, except maybe for the quad biking.. It took me a while to get used to it, and very embarrassing was that a bumped into a tree, while I was at second position. Anyway, after a while I got used to it and then it’s actually lots of fun, disappointing was just that some other people on the safari didn’t know what the word breaking means.

One of the most amazing things about Sun City was that we ended our days with more money than that we started the day with, even while we did activities where we had to pay for and went out for supper every night. Me and Fearghas were very Lucky, we both managed to win every night in the casino, it made us feel rich! Luck was really at our side, because the day we were leaving Sun City we also managed to get into the palace Hotel to look around. The Palace of the lost city is one of the top Hotels in the world and no wonder why!

The next day we went to the Union Buildings and the stadium of The Blue Bulls, where we had a VIP tour. The Union buildings are stunning, it is the building (don’t ask why it’s called buildings) where the government of South Africa is settled for a half year each year. After Loftus (The blue Bull Stadium) we had a quick and massive lunch and went to the airport.

It have been 5 amazing days, one of the best weeks since the start of my Gap Year! Thanks a lot Michelle!