This weekend I spent it at Boesmans river (pronounced “Bushmans”) with my friend Debbie's mother. She is a wonderful lady. She picked me up after school and took me to her home on the river. Its very lovely. She offered to get me out of Grahamstown for the weekend since I haven't done much with the other students gone. One culture difference that happened on the way to her home was a family of baboons crossing the road we drove past. It was so neat to see.
We spent Friday night watching movies and listening to it rain. I think we watched at least four movies:-) On Saturday we went to a Bizarre at a methodist church in Kenton, which is just right across the bridge from Bushmans. A Bizarre is like a festival/fundraiser for the church they had. They sold hotdogs and hamburgers, all kinds of baked goodies. They had a bounce house for kids and games to play. They also had a little dance/sing with kids from the church. It was really neat. After the Bizarre we went to Port Alfred to watch War Horse at the movies. It was a really good movie.
On Sunday I woke up to a drum playing and people singing in Xhosa. On the river bank there was a church group singing and doing a baptism. It was really neat to see the ritual they followed. Even though I couldn't understand the words they were singing I really enjoyed listening to the music. The weather was a lot nicer so we went down to walk on the beach and get some sun. It was perfect weather. We were very close to Shelly's Beach, the one I went to with Holly and her teacher a while back.
Some more differences in language:
What Americans Say: What South African's Say:
head band alice band
khaki pants “car key” trousers
fancy/stylish posh
cool kiff
gross/yucky miff
truck buckey
group lot
rent a car hire a car
place to rent to let
crazy hectic
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