Wednesday, October 14, 2009

More JBay Brotha

SO Im in JBay for another full day after this. But tomorrow we are going to Cape St Francis to and if we are lucky Enough we could get a chance to surf a wave called Bruce's Beauties, which is named after Bruce Brown, the director of Endless Summer. It is the perfect wave which they found, in the film and only break a few times a year.
Jbay has been really good for the surf, but the wind in onshore today so i think i will go bodysurf after this, because it will be difficult to get a long ride in with the onshore winds.

2 days ago an autralian couple staying in our hostle was drunk, and i mean piss drunk, by about 10 am when we came in from our morning surf. The Husband was a bit entertaining going around telling everyone how big the waves he used to surf were, and how he woke up one morning and saw a 12 foot crocodile staring him in the face so he said "Fuck off" and the croc turned and walked away. He grabbed the crocodile by the tail and started swinging it around in the air and then slammed it into the ground and it died. But we he quickly turned into a pest becasue he was so drunk, and his wife was in the bar and passed out on a bar stool and cracked her head on the ground and had to be taken to the hospital by an ambulance. Her husband was so drunk he didnt do anything when we told him so we put him to bed and Thomas, the manager of ISland Vibe and a hell of a nice guy, went and picked his wife up from the hospital. By the time they left this morning, i still hadnt seen them in a sober state, and I just felt embarassed for them.

Yesterday I went horseback riding for the first time and it was amazing. Most of the time I operate under ther assumption that you cannot control other living things, be they people or animals, and ity really hit home once I was in the saddle that i was on top of a huge powerful living thing named Ross and had no idea what i was doing.
One of my favorite things about south africa is how laid back of a place it is. I didnt need to sign much paperwork, or even wear a helmet, and i got to gallop down the beach on a horse. The only girl in our group, kat, said that she has never gotten to get a horse full on galluping so it felt pretty cool to get to spring don the beach and over sand dunes after only about an hour of experience with the reigns.

This morning we got to go hang out with a group of township kids at school and that was amazing. We fed them and did some singing and dancing and ran around outside. Although they had a smaller jungle gym than I did at baker school, theirs was much more confortable. At one point i think i had about 10 kids climbing on me and pulling my hair, which they thought was the funniest thing. Unfortuanatly all of the boys knew about pro wrestling and went around hitting each other and shouting the name of theor favporite wrestlers, like Triple H and John Cena. Good old american Culture, top class. Although nearly everyo0ne reading this would probably call me a hypocrite for being cynical about it becasue when i was their age i loved the WWF too. So all in all an amazing experience.

ok ttfn

1 comment:

  1. Frickin wild, man! Ride bareback sometime! That's a real thrill!

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