Let us begin with my apology. I do very much apologize for not posting last week I did not have an internet connection due a “locked account”. Yet again this was due to aweird contract mishap not on my account or my parents but the landladies. Love her! Not to worry though the problem shouldn’t happen again!
I’ll just quickly sum up what I was going to say last week first and then go on about this past week/weekend. Last week my mom and I went on some adventures and I have discovered I am gifted (or so I like to think) in the area of navigation, even if that navigation is being told to me from my Garmin. : ) I also received my own personal panic button which resides in my bathroom along with the key to my crash gate. Now you might ask what is a crash gate? Well, a crash gate is a gate that is in every bedroom and it usually is the size of the doorway in front of the bathroom so if there happens to be an intruder you scurry and slam the gate shut and hop in the bathroom shut that door, which also happens to be bullet proof, and then you press the panic button and wait. Needless to say I’m thinking about building a shrine to my panic button. And that was it for last week, we didn’t go anywhere over the weekend I don’t think, but my mom and I did see Burlesque on Wednesday or something like that.
Now for this week… So far we have procured our own internet 5g thumb drive thingeymajig, which really doesn’t work that well, a cell phone for my mom, a poster of the Mad Hatter from the recent Alice in Wonderland movie, a tan line from my running shorts, a gym membership, pots and pans, coffee mugs, knifes, a scale, and I think there is more but I can’t remember and you don’t really need to know all that much anyway.
This past weekend however, I must tell you about. We went spelunking and exploring at the Cradle of Human Kind. Where the cave is, is where they found one of the oldest fully articulated skeletons. This skelton they found is male and they have removed all but his left humorous bone from the rock. This skeleton’s name was Little Foot and they found in ’97. The excavation of the entire cave started in like the '30’s but they still have not finished the whole cave mostly due to a lack of funding. Why people won’t put money into finding out our history doesn’t exactly make sense to me. After we did that cave we went over to the museum (which I just figured out I don’t know how to spell museum btw) where they have a ginormous life size geologic time scale with dates and facts on it, and no 2012 is not marked on there as the next worldly life ending event just in case you were worried there for a second. There was actually five of those the second and I think the fourth were the worst ones. Further into the museum there are interactive exhibits and displays, this is where I learned that in the United States every minutes 6 acres of pizza are eaten, meaning like 300 something slices every second. I also learned that people suck and that why a large amountf of impoverished people are dying and the we are willing to spend more on our pets (which I admit to) then in donations to charities that help feed starving children and families and provide medical care all over the world, not just in Africa but in our own cities as well. I also nicely got to put my own hands in to Nelson Mandela’s hand prints… mine where a whole lot smaller.
Speaking of Mandela, he is 91 or 92 I believe and the life expectancy here is like 47. So think about the kind of life he has led and what he has done in it and he 92 whereas the average person is only living to 50 maximum and they aren’t doing the things or have the things done to them that that man has. I’m in a little bit of awe when I think about him.
Wow! Okay! Enough with that mess of stuff! This Sunday my dreams are going to be coming true again and I am going to an elephant sanctuary (I am thinking of taking Mosby with me) and for those of you who may not know this… I love elephants. I think they are possibly the most majestic animal out there and so when I get to spend time with them I freak out a little bit and may possibly have multiple dance parties... alone… in my bedroom…
I have also decided that instead of going to Europe on my way back to the states as my graduation present I am planning to spend extra time in Cape Town, seeing as how it’s been my dream since I was 13 I feel it makes a certain amoung to sense. Cape Point is stop number one, it’s where the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans meet and they have these amazing cliffs… ooooo I’m so excited!!!
And so I will leave you on that note and next week I may or may not tell you about the elephants.
<3
P.S. Is it really almost February
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