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Hmm, it has been a while since I’ve written in this diary here…

We’re currently on a long weekend thanks to the easter holidays, friday and monday aren’t workdays either. I’m not taking the two weeks holiday right now, will try to take them at the end of my time here and do some sightseeing in this nice country.

I’ve spent the whole day in rehab friday, talking to people and just having fun. I remember watching a movie, think it was Saving Private Ryan. My memory is failing these days, must be the nice weather :)
Saturday we went back to rehab in the evening, just dropping in to see how things were going. Jeffrey ran off - again - and this time he’s not allowed to come back in. Too bad, but its understandable seeing he’d stay for a couple of days and run off again…

Yesterdaymorning (=sunday) we took some of the rehab people to church with us, and surprise surprise - it was boring as always. Too much talk about Jesus and his magic tricks, maybe I should try another church to see if there’s a difference. In the afternoon we had a beach trip sceduled, took some of the rehab guys with again. Can’t remember exactly which beach we went to - Camps Bay or Bayside or something - but the view is great. Small bays, Table mountain in sight and blue water with nice waves. Housing goes from 1.2mil rand and up, pretty cheap compared to our Belgian appartments with view on a straight line of blue/gray see. ( R1 200 000 ~= €100 000 )

After the beach visit we dropped the guys off at rehab and hung out there for a while, and took Sarah with us for a braai in the evening. Apparently people don’t trust me with her, Dewald was warning me not to go anywhere and Karlien “invited” us to her place to keep an eye on us. xD
Anyway, the braai was great :)
Sarah kicked my ass twice in the fingerboard game, lucky Shane wone a game and defended the family honor.

Digging further into the past… Wednesday we had a houseparty to celebrate Dewalds birthday  - the poor bastard is already 35 years old. Party was okay, a lot of people I don’t know but thats a solvable problem. I met Jaco, he’s a 24 year old laywer student. Had a nice chat about South Africas political parties, past, current and future economic state and stuff like that. He doesn’t see a very bright future for this country if it continues the way its heading now, and I suppose he could know.
Had a lot of fun with Karlien, Natasha & Shane at the party, and met Anton’s daughter. She’s a 15 year old college student, studying tourism ( I was surprised too, apparently thats possible in this country ). She seemed pretty bored and after an hour of watching her playing games on her cellphone I decided to make her evening more interesting. Well, I hope it was more interesting anyway :) Saw her again in church, forgot to mention that a few paragraphs above.

Okay, lets see what else I did after the last note in this diary… I remember going to rehab a few times, but don’t know what I did so no point writing about it. I’ll let you know once I remember.

Oh, and I’m going to Cape Point with Adrian tomorrow, he’s a travel agent based in Durbanville. Will talk to him about a website in return for some free/cheaper trips around the country in june. I’ll let you know more after the trip ;-)

This morning we had a meeting with all office staff and site managers, Gavi gave a presentation about how to give good instructions, things to watch out for and common misunderstandings. We talked about the different kind of persons too, and how to respond to them.

At the end of the presentation we played a little game, to see which team remembered the most of it. We won ( ofcourse :) ) with Shane and myself being the two persons who remembered most. I brought the final victory home for our team after the last timed quiz.  ( and I must say we were very lucky that Didier did worse than I did :D )

Yesterday Terrence went back to rehab, but he didn’t have time to pick me up. Well, that or he wanted to go out with the girls all by himself. Still dont’ know :)
Was a bit sad, I really wanted to go.  Haven’t seen Sarah since sunday and I like talking to her, but I guess I’ll have to wait till sunday.

Other than that there’s not much to say really, I can’t go out with this damn leg. Its getting better however :)
So how was your week ?

This weekend was pretty quiet, I stayed at home at saturdays and went to rehab and church yesterday. I wanted to write a small diary note on fridays, but somehow the internet got fukt at the office :( The only thing working was mail through SMTP, which I don’t use :(
Oh, and I went to rehab last thursday too. It seems weird, but I like being there…

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I just got back from the hospital, we had a little accident with the motorcycle. I’m pretty much ok, only have a few bruises and my knee is fukt. The private hospitals in South Africa seem to do a nice job, I got out in two hours :)

I was sitting at the back of the motorcycle while Dewald was driving, we were on our way to buy a computer cable thingy.  A car stopped in the middle of the road without signalling to turn or anything, so Dewald passed it at full speed. When we were right after the car the driver decided to turn in, so we crashed into the side. Don’t really have an idea what happend after, I hope I did a nice salto before landing on the pavement. :)
Anyway, we both landed on the pavement, next to the broken motorcycle. I stood up immediately, looking if Dewald was ok. Was heavily bleeding from my nose, hand and knee but didn’t seem to notice it at the time.

Bystanders helped us, giving me a tissue and some sugerwater because I was shaking a bit. I found my shoe under the motorcycle, which was leaking gasoline. I doubt if it survived the crash, there were pieces of plastic and metal all over the place. Guess Dewald will have to come to work on foot xD.
Ambulances were there pretty quickly, we were lucky to crash a few blocks from the hospital I suppose. Medics checked me out, saying my knee shows burnwounds and it doesn’t look too good. They seemed surprised I could walk. :)

Dewald has hurt his arm pretty bad, not broken luckily. Sitting in the office, just had lunch. I got hungry in the hospital :)

Well, that was pretty much my day untill now. Lets hope the rest is better ;-)

Yesterday evening I went back to the rehab house for a couple of hours, just to chat to the people there. Talked to Jeffrey, Sara, Rosalyn & her brother ( I keep forgetting that guys name. Its something like “Andrew” :D ).

While I was talking to Sara I noticed she changed a lot since the last time I saw her,  she thought about what I said and probably came to the conclusion that I was right. She was very optimistic, knowing that the situation she’s in now isn’t the best place to be but its necessairy to get out of the life she’s living. She was also thinking about going back to school or try homeschooling, another thing I tried to convince her of last time. There was no more black make-up and she didn’t try to hide herself from everything and everyone, so I’m pretty sure I got through to her. I even get hugs :)

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