Jeffreys bay

Stupidly enough I went to "Storms river" to do tubing, completely ignoring the information everywhere that South Africa goes through the worst drought period ever, to watch water, to report leaks, "Platenbourg has only 20 days of water left" ... and here I am going tubing ! Hopefully I'll be smarter next time and actually read and process the signs. The river was completely empty, all the rapids we had to walk through because there are just rocks sticking from the water, and besides the guides flipping everybody out of their tubes, there wasn't much else happening. I was a little bit mad because I don't think that the company should run trips in such conditions, and also because the trip was expensive, and I chose it over the highest bungee jump in the world of 216 meters!! :(( The staff at the reception was the worst ever! They didn't explain anything, didn't do anything. I had to ask all the questions. Usually if you ask a question about a trip, you get an answer with all the information you need. And here it was:
"Do you do tubing trips?"
yes
"Do you have a trip tomorrow?"
yes
"&%(*%$ what time does it start, for how many hours is it? What do I need to bring? "
Oh man, I almost told her something, but somehow held it in. She said that she'll book me in, well guess what, in the morning there was no booking. Figures!
When I checked in around 8pm, and got in the room, there was water running in the shower. I thought it was a bit weird because it run for a while, and all people know to take short showers, the "save water" signs are everywhere. Then 2 hours later when I went to sleep, the water was running. Again I thought it was weird, too many people are taking showers. I lied down in bed and couldn't fall asleep cause the water was running. Half an hour later, I got up and went to check things out. There was nobody in the shower! I have no idea for how long that water was running for, and why nobody else noticed or do anything about it?
Hans arrived in the hostel, and we just chatted and read books all day, because there wasn't much else to do.
Next stop was Jeffreys bay. Before it was a small dope smoking town until somebody discovered the perfect waves, so now it turned into a dope smoking surfing town :) (that's what it says on the wall... seriously!), and has the spot in the top 3 worldwide surfing destinations. And we all turned into dope smoking surfing bums :))) naah, not really, we just teased each other saying that when we were lying dead on the couch after hard core surfing. The town is filled with billabong, roxy, rip curl stores and guys :) Most of the surfing guys are built, blond and with dreadlocks, pretty much all look alikes :)
Early in the morning went surfing. This was my worst surfing ever :( The waves were very strong, the board was extremely uncomfortable, I hurt my feet every time I slid on it, I couldn't get balance and fell before caught the wave .... oooohhhhh, very frustrating! So I just ended up splashing around in the waves for an hour, but on the other hand I got some exercise :)
Me and Hans went for a "hike" which was in the map of the city. Along the way saw a washed out star fish, and a bunch of giant and wet grass hoppers, so it was my "save the world" day. I collected all the grasshoppers on the way, there were like 5 sitting on me at one point, and then put them safely in the grass to dry off :)
That map was clearly outdated. When we finally found the hiking trail, it was closed with a tall gate. We asked one of the people living in the house nearby why is the gate closed and how to get inside. He basically said that the gate was built because there was a lot of robbery in the area, and the thieves would run into that reserve and hide that way. So we climbed over that gate and got in. That gate must have been there for a while, since it was not hiking but more like crawling through all the over grown tree branches. 15 minutes later when there was not even a glimpse of where to go next, we decided to turn back. I was very careful cause I left only with very minor scratches, and surprisingly my shirt did not rip :) Then we did a huge loop back into the town. I was exhausted! In the hostel went to play pool. I sunk all the balls in except 1 which I must have hit like 20 times! And then! We all discovered the foosball table! It was so much fun! We had an all night competition going on :) I remember seeing this game since I was a kid, and why only now have I decided to try playing in it? When I'll be stationary and have a house with a huge basement, I'm buying a foosball table !! :)) At night there was a party, again! All the drunk teenagers running around, drinking, drinking all the bottle at once through a funnel, people were partying 1 meter from the dorm room, I ended up going to sleep at 4:30am. 8am woke up, and went surfing again. Same luck, different day. Then went to a restaurant, and had a latte. If you go to a restaurant once a month, anything you order tastes 100 times better than usual :)
So after surfing, hiking, partying, and surfing again, the surfing bum was out :) I fell asleep on the couch in the main area only to be woken up by loud banging. The kids from some local dance school came to perform in the hostel. They had a lot of energy, but they weren't really good. At the end they were collecting money so they could buy cloths, drums, and go to competitions. They are far away from competitions, or at least winning them, but we all chipped in. They were so aggressive, almost growling and shoving each other. But I've seen it before, so maybe it's just the culture thing.
In Port Elizabeth, I stayed in the nicest hostel ever, too bad only over night. It was just like a hotel, beautiful furniture and design, huge swimming pool, everything is in perfect condition, nothing's broken or scratched, curtains, plants, marble bathroom, excellent! The sky was beautiful that night, and when I got out of the Baz Bus I was walking to the hostel with my head up. The smart ass driver asked me if I could point out the southern cross (which is the easiest thing to find, not that I know anything else either), anyway, I pointed it right away, and he said how surprised he was, since not a lot of people can read stars, especially girls. Oh, I wish I knew another constellation to ask him where that was!
In the morning, there was me and another girl waiting for the Bas Bus, the driver got in and said how come there are 2 girls in here and he has to make his own coffee. I know he was joking, but common!

As you already know, there are 11 official languages in SA, Xhosa is one of them, they have a lot of clicks when they talk. Check it out at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_l7ty_MH_Y&feature=related

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