The Art of Watching Kim Possible... or other retired shows

Let’s start with last Friday… a few moments after I posted there was a knock our front door by a water man who told us that our water pressure was going to be reduced due to a lack of payment on bills. Thank you landlady! So since then the water in my shower has been more of a trickle and thus resulting in my not having a proper shower since Thursday last week. But life did go on smelly or not I tended to just go swimming instead and wear lots of deodorant.  But thankfully last night (Thursday) the water was turned back on whether it was done through the proper channels or not I have no idea I just know that for the first time in a week I had a hot full blast shower.

On a different note over the weekend we went to two different nature reserves. On Saturday we went to one where you drive around in your car and you can get out and take pictures, at your own risk of course. We saw many a zebra… well mostly their butts since they were grazing and didn’t really want us to be there. We also saw a few springbok, water buck ostriches, and a butt load of birds. There is this one bird called the… something widow, is huge and black and has a red ring around its neck. It was pretty nifty if I do say so myself. Then on Sunday we went to The Lion Park where yes, I got to play with lion cubs. We also got watch, from the safety of our cars, the older lions of the pride devour hunks of a water buffalo. When they were being given the water buffalo we got to watch a lion, who was a little late to the dinner party, chase after a lioness for her hunk of meat. At one point the lioness had the lion pinned in a half pinned down half in a sleeper hold for like five minutes and then the park people tossed another piece of meat down and the lioness got the better bigger chunk and the lion got piece they were fighting over.  Although the whole thing still seemed semi artificial and a bit like a zoo show it was still pretty darn amazing to see them so up close literally in reach outside my window. And that was what we did on our first weekend in South Africa.

As for this past week I have discovered that on TV here they still broadcast the following: “new” episodes of Scrubs, The West wing, That’s so Raven and Kim Possible. I also swam in the pool, freckle farmed, had a 20 minute solo dance party,  went on multiple walks through the “compound”, washed my hair in the sink with a water pitcher, and started Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carol after finishing The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.

This weekend we were planning on lying low and going to see either HP7 again since my dad hasn’t seen it yet or Tron since none of us have seen it. Other than that I’m starting to miss society a bit and having someone other than my parents to talk to, not that I mind talking to them it would just be nice to get out and meet people but since I am not in school and everyone else is that is a bit difficult. And to top it off I usually got to bed about a quarter to nine and wake up a quarter to five… I feel like an old person.

*edit* I forgot to mention my new friend Mosby. he's a tortuous and he lives in my backyard. i like him.