Drakensberg

Sawubona my loved ones,

I know it was quite a long time since I wrote last.

I really enjoy my time here. Tomorrow I only have two weeks left, which is sad. I wish I could stay longer but saying goodbye won’t get easier.

We spent the last weekend in Underberg, the Drakensberg. I always heard about how beautiful it is but I also thought well the Alps are beautiful as well. But the time we drove through there totally could understand what everybody was talking about. Just look at the pictures and they even didn’t turn out as beautiful: P

We stayed with Peter, a guy who built up his own house for the last ten years. He wants to live with things, all made by himself. So he is planning on make some cheese and wine etc.  So it was really individual and had something of everything. We were able to shower with the beautiful landscape and even the toilet had a window to look out.

 

Peter showed us the most beautiful places and just drove through the land. We could sit on a matrass in the back of his Bucky. Such an awesome feeling! The time it was raining we just hide under a big blanket.  And yes people looked at us as we were strangers, normally you just see Zulus on the back. But after we even walked into the supermarket without shoes and hair, destroyed through the wind, the people knew we are kinda crazy.

We got to see the Three Pools, the mountain lakes, in which we could bath after our hike there. It was really cold but nice as well. We had a picnic and walked back.

 

 We stopped to drink a milkshake and afterwards we drove to the Silver streams, a nice waterfall. This waterfall is in the no man’s land between South Africa and Lesotho. 

 

The second day we hiked 8 km to a place called Panicle Rocks. The hike was really nice through all the high grass and even rivers. 

Panical Rocks

 

Making nudels

Peter showed us how to bake really bread and we ate a lot of it because normally we just have toast.

We also had the possibility to cook awesome meals like soup or Kartoffelgratain.

On Monday we sadly had to go back to Greytown, but before we wanted to walk through Underberg. Afterwards Peter took us to another Children’s Home. It is led by Sister Abigail. She adopted 17 Children by herself and is a really caring person. She told us about her children and how she wants them to have a good life, to be educated and that she does everything for them.

It was really different than our Children Home. For example there is only her working together with the older children or she wants her children to speak English not Zulu or Afrikaans.

We drove to Pietermaritzburg on the Pick up again but stopped in Howark to look at a really high waterfall and eat ice cream, since it was really hot!

After we arrived in Greytown we saw that some money in our locked rooms was missing. Sadly about the fact some children stole our things (there were also German chocolate, fruits missing) we decided to stop any extra activity for our children and to talk about the whole story with every single house. This was a good decision because we found at least five of the eight boys who stole. We wanted to give them the possibility to apologize and give us the money back, but they didn’t want to say where the money is. So our Oom, Pieter, took us to the police station where we opened a case( in the middle of the night because we tried to talk to them for 1 ½  hours before).

Now the police will talk to the guys and scare them because we don’t want to get them into more trouble and want a future without anything noticed by the police for them. Hopefully it will work.

So, now I have to wake up my children to go play with them.

I hope you are all right!

Lots of love from South Africa

Fredo

Lightnings