ACSian Theatre South Africa Tour 2006 - Day 3
The morning started at 6am with an early morning game drive to see some lions. With dark clouds looming ahead, our jeep travelled on steep roads to the other side of a range of mountains. We manage to find and observe two lionesses and a male sub-adult (i.e. its mane is starting to grow). Our trip back, however, was plagued by rain (time to put on the ponchos), getting stuck in a difficult part of the mountain road to let another jeep pass, and getting a punctured tyre (thank goodness there were male rangers just behind us). In all these moments of uncertainty though, there's still a little time for humour; LC answered nature's call in the rocks while the guys were replacing the tyre.
By the time we got back to Lakeside, we were freezing cold, slightly wet and halfway into breakfast. Since we were booking out of Entabeni soon, I quickly downed some food and ran back to get my stuff. Thankfully I had already packed my bag before leaving for the morning game drive, so that's time saved. Although the spiders do freak me out, I was a little reluctant to leave the cool nature place. But the tour must go on; a few minutes' ride on the jeep later, we were back at the main gate of Entabeni and boarding the bus to return to our hotel.
Along the way we stopped at Carnivore Restaurant for lunch. This was truly the meat place; after the leek and potato soup, we were offered a choice of at least 10 different types of meat, whether in slices, sausages or meatballs. I think I had chicken, beef, pork, ostrich, vinissent (sorry, can't spell it), ostrich, springbok and crocodile. However, not everyone could take the amount of meat. On the way back from the restaurant to the hotel we stopped over again at a Chinese restaurant to take away our dinner. While Cecil, Suraj, Yi Jun and I waited for the food, Viki vomitted.
We set up equipment to rehearse for our items about 20 minutes after returning to the hotel. The road between blocks 7 and 8 of the hotel compound had been converted into our rehearsal space. We rehearsed the dances first, including reconfiguring the positions as Viki was too sick to dance the next day. We took longer than expected for the dances; we were given a short break to collect our Chinese takeaway from Suraj before heading down to Madam's room to rehearse "The Guys" (which we would be performing at Crawford International School the next day). By the time we ended it was pretty late.
To be continued
By the time we got back to Lakeside, we were freezing cold, slightly wet and halfway into breakfast. Since we were booking out of Entabeni soon, I quickly downed some food and ran back to get my stuff. Thankfully I had already packed my bag before leaving for the morning game drive, so that's time saved. Although the spiders do freak me out, I was a little reluctant to leave the cool nature place. But the tour must go on; a few minutes' ride on the jeep later, we were back at the main gate of Entabeni and boarding the bus to return to our hotel.
Along the way we stopped at Carnivore Restaurant for lunch. This was truly the meat place; after the leek and potato soup, we were offered a choice of at least 10 different types of meat, whether in slices, sausages or meatballs. I think I had chicken, beef, pork, ostrich, vinissent (sorry, can't spell it), ostrich, springbok and crocodile. However, not everyone could take the amount of meat. On the way back from the restaurant to the hotel we stopped over again at a Chinese restaurant to take away our dinner. While Cecil, Suraj, Yi Jun and I waited for the food, Viki vomitted.
We set up equipment to rehearse for our items about 20 minutes after returning to the hotel. The road between blocks 7 and 8 of the hotel compound had been converted into our rehearsal space. We rehearsed the dances first, including reconfiguring the positions as Viki was too sick to dance the next day. We took longer than expected for the dances; we were given a short break to collect our Chinese takeaway from Suraj before heading down to Madam's room to rehearse "The Guys" (which we would be performing at Crawford International School the next day). By the time we ended it was pretty late.
To be continued
yours truly, tobias at 7:34 pm
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