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| Friday, June 12th, 2009 | | 4:32 pm |
Hello visitors.
This account is used entirely for checking out friends pages. My current blog is at www.benwert.blogspot.com | | Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 | | 11:14 am |
| | Wednesday, March 15th, 2006 | | 10:52 am |
1) Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you. 2) I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you. 3) I'll pick a flavor/color of jello to wrestle with you in. 4) I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me. 5) I'll tell you my first memory of you. 6) I'll tell you what animal you remind me of. 7) I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you. 8) If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST. It is written. | | Thursday, May 12th, 2005 | | 10:23 pm |
1000 blank white cards is THE best game known to humankind moo. I had an incredibly awesome time at the BAD house moo. | | Monday, May 9th, 2005 | | 6:06 pm |
Anyone that's interested in House of Doc tomorrow night, give me a call. Once again, it's at the Horseshoe Tavern at 9:30 PM. The cover's free, and it's at Queen and Spadina. | | Thursday, March 24th, 2005 | | 10:44 am |
All right, so right now I have no access to my e-mail, this computer won't check it, so sorry that I can't send OR read your e-mails right now. As well, Daddy, Happy Birthday, I love you very much, I'm sorry I couldn't call, I might call soon, I think I'm in an area that actually has phone cards to buy. The end of this program is rapidly approaching, and I think I'm just about ready to come home. I've got the rest of this week in Durban, then two weeks in White River, then it's back to the Johannesburg Airport and I'm on my way to... well, Winnipeg, which is closer to home, if not exactly home. It's really upsetting that soon I'll be leaving the people in the program. Like, I know them as well if not better then most people at home, and in three weeks time, I'll be lucky if I see them every couple years. Karl, (my best friend here) and I have pledged to get together at LEAST once a year, and at some point we ARE going on a trip up North to pee in the Arctic ocean, after which we will have peed in every single ocean in the world. Karl and I are staying together in the home of an East Indian couple named Paul and Babs. They're really cool. Since Indian family's feed guests so well, all the guys are having a competition to see who can gain the most weight over the course of the week. This past week, I stayed at a fairly ultra conservative Zulu mission. It's HUGE! And it's very interesting. Like, it's hard core conservative in it's theology, but it's almost communistic the way it's run. Noone gets paid, everyone just gets room and board for however hard they work. Plus the mission doesn't solicit for any donations. They make all the money they use. They own the biggest bottled water (both still and flavoured sparkling) plant in the country and they have a lot of other moneymakers. But noone gets a paycheck, and they feed about 1000 people in the community everyday. The girls had to wear long dresses and the guys nice pants and collared shirts every day while we were there. I'm not sure if I mentioned in a previous entry, but I got to play with (quite tame) pre-adolescent lions. One of them tried to wrestle with me until the staff pushed him away. Plus we saw 11 wild elephants in a game park about 2 metres from our car. That's quite unheard of, and my group was the only group that saw any elephants that day. Don't worry, I'll have lots of photos. Anyway, I don't know what kind of access I'll have in WHite River. This could be my last entry. I'll see you at home! Oh, hello Nick and Kate. It wasn't till I looked at who had me on their friends list that I even knew you had a livejournal entry. | | Saturday, March 12th, 2005 | | 5:49 pm |
Sorry about the delayedness of the last entry. Right now I'm staying in Peitermaritzburg, in a refurbished jail that Gandhi was once incarcerated in. I'm also talking in about 7 MSN conversations, so this entry might be a bit disjointed. I've..... forgotten what I was going to say.... For the last week I stayed in a little place called Mdumbi, and it was in the heart of rural Africa and it was BEAUTIFUL. Rolling hills, pristine beaches, little grass huts, cows and goats and sheep wandering EVERYWHERE. Anyway, I gotta go. It should be about a week before I have a chance to update again. The weeks are counting down. It's about a month now till hometime. | | 5:47 pm |
Well, ladies and gents. I have jumped off the third highest bridge in the world which happens to have the worlds highest bungee jump on it. AND IT WAS FANFREAKINGTASTIC!!! I thought it would be scary but it wasn't. I just bounced and flew and wee ha!!! Man, it was awesome. It was awesome possum. I got the video for 10 bucks Canadian, so once I transfer it I can show it to all y'all at home. I'm gonna get surfing lessons today (or boogie boarding, depending how I feel when I'm at the beach). This week there's no school, no service projects, just fun. We're a five minute walk from the Indian ocean in a town filled with fun activities, like surfing, sand boarding, horseback riding, mountain biking. I might buy a cheap boogie board so I can take it with me to Kaffi Bay when there's nothing but beach around for miles and miles. I don't think we'll have electricity then. We'll be having a "Knowing Yourself" retreat when we don't really do anything but a lot of meditation and soul searching. Like one big week of silence. Where we're living in huts right at the edge of the ocean. I can't believe my time in Africa is half over. That's so wierd. I gotta make the most of the time I've got left. Oh, this Friday I'll be playing with lion cubs. Sorry that I haven't sent any postcards or letters to anyone yet. I'll try to get on that. It's just very, very easy to forget about things like that here. I accidentally posted this in a different place, so Daddy, here's my update about the jump. | | Friday, February 25th, 2005 | | 11:00 am |
All right peoples, I'm in Stellenbosch now, which is just out side of Cape Town and one of the best winery areas in the world. I'll be going on a winery tour in a matter of hours. We just had a cool week of service, painting houses and gardening and paving paths in a black township called Kayelisha. I'm bungee jumping in 3 days and am still having the time of my life here. While we were in Stramfontain, I played basketball with the neighbourhood kids, and was actually enjoying it. I played more sports in that week then I had in 5 years. It was hwicked. Plus, I wasn't sucking. That was the big surprise. Anyway, if y'all go to www.outtatown.com and check out the site pics, you can see pictures of all of us in Africa. I'd love to get e-mails or reply's to my journal entries about what kind of stuff is going on at home, news wise as well. We don't get a lot of chances to find out what's going on in the greater world around us. I've become an aspiring film maker too, after rediscovering the movie option on my digital camera. There's no sound and the resolutions crap, but I'm having a lot of fun with it. Anyway, I'm gonna get me gone. I'll see you all later. | | Wednesday, February 16th, 2005 | | 8:04 pm |
Hm... I thought I'd updated this thing, but apparently this is my first entry here... Well, I'm in Cape Town right now, living in a Coloured Township called Stramfountein. The food is fanfreakingtastic, and so's the hospitality. I've played more sports in the past two days then I have in the past 5 years. Basketball and cricket with the neighbourhood kids. It's so much fun. We're helping to build houses in a black township which is fun, but very hard work. The girls in my group forced me to stop digging cause they were worried for my health. I've been shark diving and I'll be bungee jumping soon. I've gotten to know the girls a lot better, which is really cool. I've climbed Table Mountain and yesterday I went swimming in the Indian Ocean. I was swimming in the Atlantic last week. We've had our conflict resolution classes, I met Piet Meiring, a major player on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and I heard Father Micheal Lapsley, a white priest who was a member of the ANC who received a letter bomb from the apartheid government and lost both his hands. Now he's working very hard for peace and reconciliation. He runs something called 'The Institute for the Healing of Memories.' Anyway, my time on the computer is running out. Family, I'll call within the next two days. |
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