A day in AFRICA

Country Roads, Take me home, to the place I belong...

I had a stunning day.

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach but today a tjoppie filled my heart with pride and joy. I attended the Annual Nanji Braai day today with South Africans i didn't even know. It was just amazing to hear afrikaans music play loudly in the background whilst braaiing a nice tjoppie and some boerewors.

The gees was high. Not only did we have the music but we enjoyed the beverages as well, a nice cold beer in the face of South African flags put up all around. I felt a little closer to home even though I was 22000km away. The sun was hot and the wind was still. It was an absolute perfect day. I also got to speak some afrikaans and sing along to Kurt Daren's Span die seile and Ek wil nou huis toe gaan na mamma toe. Jack Parow and Die Antwoord was also part of the mix.

I took my American friend with who has visited South Africa last year and knew what it ment to braai. Like I explained in an earlier blogpost there is a big difference between Braai and BBQ. It's not the same. Anyway. I didn't know anyone who went to the braai so when we arrived we had to find some people we could crash with. I magically ran into a Afrikaans girl who I met at the GEPIK orientation week. I haven't really spoken or seen her after that week so it was great to catch up a little. She introduced me to her sister and the sisters husband. The 5 of us had a nice Braai together and ended up entering ourselves into a game of Bubble Soccer. 

Bubble soccer is so much fun. You get points for every goal you get which is really not that easy since you have to get up from the ground half the time after literally being bounced. It was so much fun and i couldn't stop laughing. Each team also had a row of water balloons on their quarter line which had to be protected. If you burst all the balloons of the opposite team you get a point. So what happened to me was, as protector of the team Balloons, I got bounced and in the process bursted my own teams balloons as the opposition bounced my bubble in such a way that I actually rolled over my own balloons. Silly hey?! 

Being in those Bubbles was so hot but it was all worth the effort in the end. My team miraculously ended up 2nd out of 10 teams. I'm not quite sure how because I was on the ground half the time trying to get up. Being short didn't really benefit me that much. I could hardly run. My biceps got a nice workout from picking the bubble up enabling me to run and kick the soccer ball. I did almost kick a goal and I also did destroy the goal post once. It was all great fun.

The Small Braai and a nice big Tjoppie and some boerewors.
Oh and don't forget the beer and the Biltong.

South African Flag. 

The photographer loved my blonde hair. 

I wonder what they did with all the other photo's. 

Team Strategy meeting happened like this. The bubbles was so
big that the 5 of us created a very secure space. 

It was so hot. We were like animals chilling under the tree. 

My team went for the red Bubbles. My face is red from the heat not sunburn. 

Everybody who jammed Bubble soccer the afternoon.
Great South Africans to know. 

'Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika