week 6- alright brahhhh

Have had the a very busy amazing week!
It started in typical Catherine manner by me forgetting my bags at Joburg airport, i then had to get someone to help me get my bags back-all went ok until i realised i had to bribe them to let me back through!! i had absoloutly zilch money so had to pay him with the remainder of my milka chocolate bars hahaha.
This week we have been round South Africa...Capetown is so gorgeous, brighton vibe but hotter and in Africa!
We then crossed the border to Namibia.......such an amazing country. huge mountains, canyons and the siccccckestttt sand dunes! Last night i went to a Namibian nightclub...definetly an experience!

On Friday i went sky diving over the Namibian desert......10,000 feet. it was increddddible. so so scary but so worth it! The video of me doing it is hilarious, just me yelling fuuuuuuuuuuuck the whole way down.. will upload it soon..
I am having such an amazing time and have met some amazing peopleeeee
Next week we are going to Botswana and Zambia!
 I miss everyone xxxx

goodbye ghana!

I am waiting at ghana airport for my flight to Johannesburg and have about 3 hours to waste as i got here mega early, when i arrived i realized i had no money, and in typical this is Africa situation.....there is no cash point at the airport?! so i had to go on a random 15 minute walk......aaaaaah Ghana!
Had the most emotional last day at the orphanage, i miss the kids so much already and have had the most incredible 5 weeks, i feel they/this trip have made such an impact on my life and i definitely want to return!
Also my african mamaaaaaa jane gave me a gorgeous african dress as a goodbye present, it is amazing and i was very tempted to turn up at the airport in all my African attire.
I have just realised iv lost my memory card so no pictures or cute videos of Godwin or my beautiful dress. so guttttteedddddd :(.
On the plus side i have made friends with a Ghanaian pilot who says he will fly me straight to Cape Town..!
xoxo

week 4 & 5

Havent been able to update for a while because we've had a 5 day powercut! very annoying as means the fans dont work either so has been the hottest nights sleep i have ever had to endure!

i've been ill with a stomach bug-i went to the 'doctors' and they sent me home with a litre of lucazade telling me it would cure it... oh ghana.

Also this week Godwyn (age 1ish) has learnt to speak english and all he says is "im fine im fine" (ghanain philosophy that if you are not fine you will be by the end of the day) it is SO cute so im gunna try and video him saying it ha.,

after 4 days of trying to sleep in about 30c heat at night..me Josh and Jayne decided to go back to green turtle lodge for the weekend! was so good to have running showers and good food and fans!! the journey there was horrific with a preacher on our bus who stood up and preached for the whole 4 hours... thankfully i didnt understand a word he was saying so just listened to my ipod after a while haha. also on our trotro the mate (conductor) couldnt fit in the tro tro as there were 24 people (usually have 18) so he sat on the roof for the hour and a half very bumpy ride!!

At green turtle i got up at 6am and went on a canoe trip by myself down the river...it was so incredible and i felt like pocohontas....! i also got very sunburnt and bed bug bites all over my feet which are so friggiiiiiiinnn itchy!

Im gunna miss the kids and the tro tros and the friendly people (such as a man today who told me he liked my tan but i needed to dress like an african.. ha) also the sun/sunsets here are the most beautiful things i have ever seen.. the sun is 10x bigger than at home!

Also on our last night at green turtle i got up at about 2am and there was a crazy tropical lightening storm..no thunder and no rain but mad lightening...i sat on the beach for about 2 hours watching it and it was so incredible.

I only have 4 days left in Ghana before leaving for Johannesburg and am so emotional about leaving already, i love it here, and definetly want to return!

i miss everyone........ happy valentines day!!

xoxo

week 3-paradise

On Saturday night me and Sara drunkenly decided we wanted to go to the beach..So the next day we got up at 6AM and made the 8 hour journey (!) to the coast! It was the most gorgeous place i've ever been to-and we met some amazing people :)... we stayed in those huts..and that is the picture of the beach that i have hung in a hammock and chilled at all week aah. It was so remote that to get phone signal i had to walk about 10 minutes down the road into the jungle and then stand on a chair haha!
Also we went to another village called Busua and made friends with some monkeys and did some surfing....its so different here than cornwall haha-no wetsuits warm water and HUGE waves!
After a 10 hour journey on the way back with a maniac tro tro driver and me needing the loo the whole 10 hours it was so good to be home and so lovely to see all the kids!
Today i had a dress made by a local lady-its gorgeous and was only 10 cedis overall-for fabric and the making of-that is about 5 pounds so very very happy ha!
We have 5 new volunteers- a mother and daughter from america...a girl from mexico.. another girl from wisconson and a guy from london! They are all really nice and its good to have some more people so we can take the v early mornings in shifts!Also one of the volunteers is really ill and has supposed malaria-very scary!
This weekend we are going to a monkey sanctury and the biggest waterfall in Ghana (in the volta region) which is really tribal and different to the south where we are so am very excited!
I miss everyoneeeeeeee
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx