I've had the time of my life (no I never felt this way before...)

Well, it's now pretty much reached the end of my stay here, so I figure I should give a brief resume of the last week.
The weekend was brilliant, on Saturday I went to Durban with Oona, Ruth, Tiara, Willy and Irma to the Victoria Street Market and we all bought some souvenirs. Afterwards, we went to Ushaka which is a local tourist area with an aquarium (which we didn't go in). We did some more shopping there and then Willy and Irma had to get a taxi to the airport since they were going to Cape Town with the other 2. We stayed around in Ushaka and went to an African restaurant called Moya for dinner with a couple of volunteers from Uthombo which is one of the other projects that helps street children. It was a lovely dinner, they had some african dancing and they did some face painting on us, and we all had a great time.
Afterwards we went to the hostel we were staying at in Durban called Tekweni, which is where the other two volunteers were staying. There was a bit of a party going on so we had a few drinks and then went for a sleep (after a hot shower!). The next day we went to the botanical gardens for a bit which were lovely, and then we went on to the Musgrave centre which is a large shopping complex. We did some browsing, had a very large dinner and then went to the cinema to see the Dark Knight before getting our taxi home.
We were pretty tired on Monday, but we did the usual chatting to the patients and feeding and things, and since there were only four of us (the other four got back from Cape Town Monday evening) it meant we got to do a lot more, although it was weird without Irma and Willy.
Tuesday was once again much of the same, we had Bingo in the evening, and it was ridiculously full. I took Sbongile down as usual, although she didn't win anything this time. It was really fun as usual. That night we went out to the Shlurp for another kareoke night. A couple of the volunteers went home early, but the rest of us decided to stay, since it was our last big night out, and we wanted to enjoy ourselves. Although the same volunteer as last time who shall still remain nameless had to be carried home again, this time even more the worse for wear than the week before. It was a brilliant night though, we did some excellent songs, and finished with I've had the time of my life and then we are the champions.
Wednesday was a bit of a slow day after the previous night's merriment, but we went up and saw some of the patients and chatted to them. We had been planning to take all our photos then, but we weren't looking our best so we decided to leave it until Thursday. In the evening we had a takeaway and watched some sex and the city, so it was quite a nice relaxed day.
Yesterday we went around taking photos with some of our favourite patients. They all love having their photo taken, although Anele, the 12 year old girl, thought she looked ugly in hers, so we took another one. She still said she looked ugly but she wanted a copy and we spent about 10 mins just repeatedly telling her how pretty she was. We also had film club last night and some of the volunteers took out Big Momma's house. I'm not sure it went down too well, since quite a lot of the patients left, but it's always hard to please everyone.
This morning we've been handing out the photos and taking some more. We're planning a little party for the patients tonight, we've got some party food and we're going to bring down the radio and have some music so that should be a nice way to say goodbye. It's going to be difficult to say goodbye to the patient's, some of them I really don't want to leave behind, but unfortunately I don't really have much choice.
All in all, it's been a brilliant experience. I've made some great friends amongst the volunteers, and I think next year at some point Ruth, Oona and I may have to do a tour of Holland and go and see Willy and Irma. It's going to be hard to say goodbye to all of this, but I have to go sometime, and although I'm going to miss a lot of people, I'm glad I came here and it's nice to know that I met these people and made such good friends, even though it's hard to leave them.
Anyway, this is probably going to be my last post, but I hope they weren't too dull for everyone, and I hope to see many people after I get back on Monday.
Doei doei! x x x x

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