Sunday, October 12, 2008

Cooking, Bike riding and German Shoes

Well, not much going on lately, except regular work things. But two sort of exciting happenings this week...I bought a bike and cooked for the first time here...

I finally bought a bike, which has been great, since I don't have a car. Its nice to be able to get around on my own now. Biking is actually quite a big thing here. There are always lots of people riding. My first bike trip was out to Noordhoek beach, where the ACTS Team House is. As I was walking around the beach, I came upon a group of people doing what looked like a photo shoot. I asked one of the people nearby what was going on, and apparenlty it was a German shoe company shooting and new shoe ad. Not as exciting as I hoped it might have been...a movie or tv show or something...but no. Definintely a first for me though, witnessing a German shoe photo shoot!

Also, after much searching at 3 different grocery stores, I found the ingredients (close enough) to make some chicken chili, which I made last night and turned out to be pretty good. Cooking here is a little interesting, since everything here is metric. So I had to do a bit of converting to make it work. But it worked out.

Other than that, not much else happening. Although, I did drive a car for the first time since I've been here. Yesterday I borrowed my housemates car to run a couple errands, and can I just say how weird it is to drive not only on the other side of the road, but be driving/steering from the other side of the car! Very weird and took me about 10 minutes to adjust. Fortunately I didn't make any wrong way turns or switch back over to the "normal" side of the rode! It definitely will take some more getting used to though...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Ryan,
This is Destin, Job, Amber, Nathan, Tristan and Taylor. We are at the teacher workroom and Ms. Linda just read us your blog entry about cooking, shoes, and driving a car.

We have been praying for you and for the children who don't have a lot of food.

We looked at your pictures. Amber likes the balloon picture. We all really liked the baboon and zebra pictures.

We are going to have lunch in our rooms because children from another school are in our gym.

Nathan Hanes is really praying about the people who don't have enough food. Job Willis wants you to come see us some day and tell us about Africa. Taylor Thompson wants you to know she and her family have been praying for you.

We are going to stop now and have our prayer for lunch and the children. We hope you have a good day. We're glad you drove a car and are able to cook.

We'll talk to you later.
Ms. Linda and six of the seven kids.