August 16

My last day!!!!
Today was hectic! I got to work and discovered they had needed me to get there at 7:30 am (not 8 am), there was a mistake in communicating that to me. I was supposed to go into a school with them at 10 am and then get a ride from their to a church to meet up with the Crusade group. So then my plans were messed up and I had to find someone to take me to this church down the street which, according to the Crusade people, is right next to where we were meeting, however, it was actually not. So then I walked about 30 minutes down the road (it was a main road and not too unsafe and it was the middle of the day) with a 7 kg box (containing all my surveys, voice recorder, etc that I needed to mail home). I ditched the plan to meet up with the Crusade people because of the time and went to the post office instead to get rid of the now very heavy box. It was actually a good thing I did that because if I had gone with the Crusade group to a school, by the time we would have gotten back, the post office would have been closed (at 3 pm) and I would have missed being able to ship that box back (which wasn't an option). So, after the post office I went into this shopping center and called this girl whom I had made plans with to go to some touristy shops before I left. She came and picked me up and we went to this crocodile farm and some Zulu shops. Then Neill met up with us and we went to a coffee shop where we ran into all the Crusade people and I was able to explain my absence. Finally, I got a ride home and had a nice last dinner with the Hotchkiss' and tried not to be too sad for my last night! But I am going to Cape Town in the morning!