Well, this shabbos was a quiet one (as usual out here), so I took to talking to the animals. I was sitting in the "braie bauma" the bbq pit (why, you may ask was I sitting in the bbq pit- well, it's always sunny there, so I don't have to chase the sun with my chair) and the warthogs came to have lunch. As there was no one else around to talk to, I greeted them with "hello little warthog", to which she (I know it was a she, as she was with her piglets) responded with a snort and ran off. The Nyalas (another antelope-like creature) also came to visit, but they weren't very talkative either. Yesterday, before shabbos, I was sunning myself in there as well and the baboons came into the tree just beyond the fence line. I watched them for a while, and decided that since they seemed to just be hanging out, and were in a good picture range, I'd go and get my camera. When I came back with it, they noticed me and decided to run off as soon as I raised it to get their pic, as if they were tired of posing :(
OK, here's the final count food-wise for those of you who were worried about my food. I had quite a few leftovers, so it is possible to over pack, food wise, even for 5 weeks. I have 9 out of the 10 packet of tuna/salmon in foil packs. Again, I can't imagine anyone voluntarily eat them unless they had a fear of starving to death! (Thankfully, I had cheese and eggs as protein). Two packs of dehydrated refried beans (they weren't bad, but the black beans were better, and I didn't really care for the taco filling). I still have 3 packs of dried salami (I really only ate them for shabbos, and if a pack was still open on sun, then I'd finish it then) which are coming home with me. I have 24 Cliff bars left (a whole box size from Costco!) I had counted on needing to eat one a day, but clearly I didn't. Five packets of couscous (I won't miss eating that for a while!), and a whole pack of mini-matzohs that I brought just in case the full size ones broke and I couldn't use them on shabbos. The grape juice made it, yay! Oh yes, and a whole jar of peanut butter (as well as half a tube of jelly). I still have a few days to go, but am just going to eat the cheese and salami (with some crackers and bread), and some hard boiled eggs. I do have some instant oatmeal left, but I think I'm going to save that for my Tues-Weds travel, as that's easy to just get hot water for and then I have a "cooked" meal to eat- yum. I've never looked forward to airplane food, but this might be a first!
OK, off to finish packing for my last two days in Kruger (fun fact- the park, which spans three countries- SA, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe- is the size of Belgium- minus the diamonds and chocolate :) ).
Cheers,
Robyn
PS- It appears that there is only one good student out there, and yes, I had the pleasure of supervising her! (I hope she didn't answer my quiz only bec she might need another reference some day!)
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