This is just a quickie to let you know I've arrived at the South Africa project safe and well. The remainder of my time in Mozambique was spent with Jaco and Maria and then they were so incredibly kind as to drive me down to Hoedspruit (the town near where my project is) via 3 days in Kruger park. Amazing people.
The new project is not quite what I expected - its a small farm with 9 horses and some land with kudu, impala, wildebeest, giraffe, zebra, a porcupine, loads of mad birds and various other creatures that visit from neighbouring reserves. I'm learning loads about the bush and I've ridden 3 or 4 times so far and even with that I'm sure I'm a bit better. I've only come off once, and honestly it was only a gentle slide off. Its riding - its bound to happen! The other unexpected thing is how unbelievably cold it is. It gets down to about 5c at night and by 8.30pm it is just too cold to do anything other than go to bed! It does get up to 30c ish during the day but I'm struggling to cope with the cold. Oh, and there are cold showers apart from Monday Wednesday and Friday. On the cold days washing is on a need to know basis only as it is just unbearable! Thankfully my hair is long enough to plait. Do you want a pic of me in pigtails - it is very funny! And why is it that the grey hairs are the ones that escape most? Anyway, enough of that nonsense - you can tell the cold has got to my brain.
I will update more next week - I get into town on Monday mornings so plan your emails for then. Thank you all for this week's bunch - it is lovely to hear from people. And thanks for your comments and support for my fundraising effort for the Mozambique orphans, especially to Liz McRobb, who is just being awesome.
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