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.
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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
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