yesterday, today and tomorrow

Yesterday, Diana and I went to collect my luggage from the airport
(FINALLY THANK GOODNESS)
and wish Ruth a 'Bon Voyage' as she goes off to Italy for two weeks.

Then, we went to the nursery for some lovely plants for the farm.
We'll definitely be gardening this weekend!

I am loving the tropical flowers and birds.
The birds create a complete change in background music which i couldn't love more.

As promised...

Diana and I, on the mountain top

Andy and Becky, the British volunteers

Diana and her lovely bouquet of wild Proteas

Fynbos

Fall in love with the farm yourself!
Check out:
www.fynbosestate.co.za

The Farm

This one'll try and be a short update, I want to go join my godparents and the volunteers who are watching tv.
-Besides I'm exhausted!

Today I arrived in Cape Town. Had a bit of trouble with my luggage, as it stayed in Jo'burg. UGH. We'll have to make the 1 to 1 1/2 hour trip to the airport again to go pick it up, but for now I'll have to survive on what I've got with me!
Which is: A tooth brush, tooth-paste, pj pants, two t-shirts, undies, jeans, a tank top, two pairs of socks and a sweater.
Clearly, I'll be borrowing lots...

Then I came back to the farm, which somehow becomes more and more ravishingly exquisite and beautiful every time I come back, and had a long nap. I had the pleasure of meeting the two volunteers who came from England and started off volunteering in Januuary for six weeks and ended up staying for six months! You just fall in love with the farm, and thats the truth. We went up the mountain in the buki, picking Proteas on our way back down.
[I'll post pics soon!!!]

The best was going out for dinner to a little restaurant in the back of a house. A sweet Italian South African man makes pizzas, (only pizzas, no drinks or anything. We brought wine and juice with us!), that are brilliant and super tasty. I was completely full of love and garlic by the end. YUM.

Taking Flight

And off I went!

After saying a grueling good-bye to my parents, I set off to Amsterdam. The flight was surprisingly easy and the time went by very quickly, I think that is partly due to the friends I made in Toronto Airport who were on the same flight as me. We spent most of our matching 3 hour layover time relaxing in some large sofas in Schipol Airport discussing our lives. They were two Hungarian girls on their way back home to Budapest after spending the summer in Toronto.

As I was waiting for them to get off the plane though, I bumped into a girl I go to school with! Crazy, huh?
She was on the exact same flight as I was on her way to go visit family in the Middle East.

The second flight was a little more annoying, towards the end. After exhausting most of the movies and tv shows I turned to the people sitting beside me. They were a French couple from Paris. And so I had a little extra French practice, and they had some English practuce!

All in all, I was very tired when I arrived in Johannesburg and so grateful for the easy voyage.
It was when my head hit the pillow of the friends I was staying with that I knew it was worth it and
I was home.

Artbarn School and Grand and Toy

Its a hard thing to wrap your head around

in 20 hours I will be boarding a plane that will arrive in Amsterdam!
I'm so excited for my trip to South Africa, and I know that I am fully stocked up on supplies for the kids in Malmesbury all thanks to the generosity of Artbarn School and Grand and Toy

Check them out here:

http://www.artbarnschool.com/http://www.grandandtoy.com/sites/corp/default.aspx

The Farm

And the countdown has hit 10 folks!

-10 more days until I begin my adventure and set off to South Africa! As the days approach I find myself reminiscing of the last time I was at the farm and digging up some old pictures of the area.


Will keep you posted with more! xx